Today’s Math Estimation Exercise involves this short video. Estimate the maximum speed attained by the man as he hurtles through the mineshaft. Then estimate the precision of your estimate: [vimeo]26618119[/vimeo] BONUS EXERCISE: Estimate how much salt was removed from the section of the salt mine visible in this video.
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Many, many kinds of infinity
Vi Hart, in this video, explains and plays with many kinds of infinity: BONUS QUESTION (for mathematicians): Are there infinitely many kinds of infinity?
Spin, twin, min, fin, free will, and all that…
John Conway writes the words SPIN, TWIN, MIN and FIN on a blackboard. Watch him do it, if you will (so to speak), in this video: He then goes on to lecture for an hour (more or less) about his study: “The Strong Free Will Theorem,” John H. Conway and Simon Kochen, Notices of the […]
Hey Maths! (Beatles studies)
Improbable recently drew attention to ‘Why the Beatles Succeeded but Broke Up: the Math(s)’, now we turn instead to mathematical considerations of the band’s music (rather than of the band itself). In particular, a paper in a Special Beatles Studies issue of the journal Volume !, 2016/1 (12:2) entitled ‘Hey Maths! Modèles formels et computationnels […]