Sabine Hossenfelder explains what differential equations are, go through two simple examples, explain the relevance of initial conditions and how differential equations generally work, and then discuss what this means to the question whether the future is determined already.
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Here’s a selection from Lex Fridman’s conversation with Stepham Wolfram.
Here’s an interesting innovation coming out of Google in regards to AI and mathematics.
I wonder how much AI will accelerate our understanding of math.
Mathematics describes the real world of atoms and acorns, stars and stairs, with remarkable precision.
Is mathematics invented by humans just like chisels and hammers and pieces of music?
Or is mathematics discovered—always out there, somewhere, like mysterious islands waiting to be found?
Henry Segerman explores this virtual experience of non-euclidean space, which is a joint work with Vi Hart, Andrea Hawksley and Sabetta Matsumoto.
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Tibees delivers a math lesson about logarithms inspired by the legendary painter Bob Ross.
2020 is a census year and we take fast, actionable data analytics for granted.
It wasn’t always easy or fast until the advent of a punchcards brought about by a competition.
YouTube channel standupmaths explains.
3Blue1Brown explores a fascinating property of prime numbers.
3Blue1Brown walks through the mathematics of epidemics through simulations.
The source code for this video is visible here:
https://github.com/3b1b/manim/blob/shaders/from_3b1b/active/sir.py
Eddie Woo explains survivor bias in this short video.
