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Ben Syversen

@bensyversen

Video documentaries featuring stories from the history of math and science.

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Hey Alex Kontorovich - I thought you told me that you were no good at thinking of titles for Youtube videos?!? "The Riemann Hypothesis: How to make $1 Million Without Getting Out of Bed" youtu.be/yhtcJPI6AtY?si…

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Any other math Twitter folks like to cook? How do you dice your onions? In this article, Kenji Lopez-Alt and Rui Viana use computer models to find the ideal knife pattern, but I wonder if there's an elegant mathematical way to find it. nytimes.com/article/how-to… Steven Strogatz

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Hey @TeamYoutube: this is a high quality creator featuring videos about advanced math. Not spam, automation, etc. He's been unfairly demonetized over "invalid traffic" which he has no control over and is doing everything he can to remedy. Please take another look at this!

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One of my all-time favorite stories in the history of math/science is how the ancients "wrestled the gods" by "stealing" celestial information from them, namely the size of the Sun and Moon, and distances to them (obviously without any fancy equipment, since none existed! Just

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Yesterday the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid in honor of William Noel, the leader of the Archimedes Palimpsest project! A viewer told me that he nominated Noel after seeing my video on the topic and learning of his passing. bit.ly/3FEeUJX

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Looking forward to hanging out with Ben Syversen and Steven Strogatz at National Museum of Mathematics on Wednesday, April 30, at 6:30 pm, for a special screening of Ben's YouTube video "The Method: The $2 Million Lost Book of Archimedes", which traces the dramatic 2,000-year journey of Archimedes's

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MATH HISTORY TIDBIT Once when Henri Lebesgue entered the Scottish Cafe (a coffee shop in Poland), he was given a menu written in Polish. After staring at it for a while, Lebesgue handed the menu back to the waiter and said, "No, thank you. I only eat well defined objects."

MATH HISTORY TIDBIT

Once when Henri Lebesgue entered the Scottish Cafe (a coffee shop in Poland), he was given a menu written in Polish. After staring at it for a while, Lebesgue handed the menu back to the waiter and said, "No, thank you. I only eat well defined objects."