DAVID HODGE: So what are we going to be talking about today is whether or not numbers exist. We're going to be thinking about three different schools of thought on this. First one's Platonism, second...
Google is celebrating 442nd birthday of the astronomer, astrologer and mathematician Johannes Kepler with a Google doodle. Kepler was born in the German in 1571. The doodle features a planet orbiting...
STEPHON ALEXANDER: I'm going to ask this question, why parity? Why do we care about parity? And of course, what is parity? OK. Why do we care about that question? But to motivate all this, I...
Music: [Here's my key. Philosophy. A freak like me, just needs infinity.] This is Gary Geck of the GaryGeck.com website. I’m just a normal guy, but I wanted to make this my very first YouTube...
As you can imagine, 400 years ago, navigating the open ocean was difficult. The winds and currents pushed and pulled ships off course, and so sailors based their directions on the port they left,...
Some of the best opportunities to learn are the moments in which we are perplexed. Those moments in which you begin to wonder and question. These moments have happened throughout history. and have led...
Queen Lion of the Animal Kingdom is giving more democracy to her citizens by adding a legislative branch to the government. The citizens each get one vote and are divided into ranges. Each range will...
we're used to seeing things from a particular point of view that is from a particular frame of reference and things look different to us under different circumstances at the moment you look to...
When I was in fourth grade, my teacher said to us one day: "There are as many even numbers as there are numbers." "Really?", I thought. Well, yeah, there are...
(Music) One of the funny things about owning a brain is that you have no control over the things that it gathers and holds onto, the facts and the stories. And as you get older, it only gets worse....