TED, which stands for technology, entertainment and design, is a global conference with a mission to spread important ideas from the fields of science, art, technology, design and business. TED began as a single conference back in 1984, but later became an annual conference held in Monterey, California. Due to high popularity TED events spread all around world offering live streaming of the events online. In 2009 TED started grating licenses to organize independent TED-like conferences...
Anybody who has seen the great movie “A Beutiful Mind” knows that John Forbes Nash was a remarkable and a unique personality. Even though the movie did have some accurate biographical facts, the real story of Nash is not known by most people. This program tells that story featuring interviews with John Nash, his wife Alicia, his friends and colleagues, and experts in game theory and mental illness. More videos
In this TEDxMontreal talk, David Dalrymple, who got accepted to MIT graduate school at 14 years old, will share his deep insight into the future of mathematics. In particular, he will discuss how the investigations of the brain might spawn a new field of mathematics. For more TEDx & TED videos visit their channel or our video section. TEDx|More videos
So here we have another TED talk about mathemagic and this one is a little bit different than the last one by Arthur Benjamin. In this one, Owen Daniel, combines some trickery with math to do some nice tricks. So check this out, and for more videos, talks and lectures, subscribe to our RSS email newsletter. TEDxTalks
Arthur Benjamin is a peculiar fellow, who happens to be a mathemagician. And what is a mathemagician you ask? It’s a person, who does various mathematical tricks, including fast mental calculations, guessing birthdays and so on. So here’s a TED talk, where Arthur Benjamin demonstrates his amazing talent. TED talks
When it comes to modern science documentaries I am really confused — either science is exceptionally easy to understand and interesting like hell or the documentary creators are exceptionally good at making everything they create sound and appear interesting.You could even science that a typical science documentary these days is 90% flashy effects and great production quality with a 10% pinch of science thrown in. Hey, but if you watch these documentaries with an...
When it comes to learning general relativity or differential geometry from textbooks, the most annoying thing is that very few books do a good job of explaining clearly what do contravariant and covariant components mean and what tensors actually represent. Even if you get a copy of the most popular introductory texts of GR, the authors usually assume that you already know the basics of tensors and either skip the explanation or explain it...
As we all know, there is an amazing connection of mathematics with the universe all around us. For instance, hat do movie special effects, the stock market, heart attacks, and the rings of Saturn have in common? They all consist of things called fractals – irregular repeating shapes. These shapes can be analysed mathematically, which is invaluable in both the world of science and our everyday world. NOVA: Fractals- Hunting the Hidden Dimension offers the basic understanding of...
In the world of science documentaries the subject of mathematics, let’s be honest, is an underdog. There aren’t that many documentaries, but the quality of them, more often than not, is quite good. “The Story of Math” is not an exception. It’s another interesting documentary hosted by Marcus du Sautoy. So let’s check it out. Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (born in London in 1965) is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of...
One of the most mysterious concepts in mathematics is the square root of -1 usually noted i. Even a primary school students know that if you square either a positive or a negative number the result will come out to be positive. But what about a negative number? It seems that there’s no way to obtain a result for a square root of -1. So why not create a number, which is equal to...
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