Everybody in Junior High School should be required to view this video

[nitro]

Jacob Lurie is, imo, one of the most exciting mathematicians in the world today. He genuinely cares that people understand what he is saying. I have watched all of his videos many times, and I am excited for field that I wasn't particularly excited about before until after his presentations, in particular topological quantum field theories.

This lecture if far more accessible.

 

[nitro]

Here is a video that is dear to my heart, as it is what I would probably be working on if I were doing research. Unfortunately, this video starts out with high school algebra, but it dives into deep mathematics at about 20 minutes in.

http://www.cornell.edu/video/jacob-lurie-the-siegel-mass-formula

 

[nitro]

Four videos that got me interested in this subject:

 

[nitro]

 

[FortuneTeller]

I wonder if Aliens on other planets use the same mathmatical symbols as we do? From a video I watched on Youtube, the Aliens that we have here on Earth (Area 51) had to create a new way of communicating with humans in order to talk to us. Whether that is true or not, who knows.

 

[nitro]

Unfortunately there is an annoying buzz in the video, but ignore it. Or, even better, do a fourier or wavelet transform of the video sound, remove the noise, and post it back to youtube.

 

[nitro]

Zero is the most important number in history. The other is One.

 

[nitro]

 

[nitro]

A very nice simple video that can wet the appetite of a junior or high school kid to study real mathematics

 

[DallasCowboysFan]

I wonder if Aliens on other planets use the same mathmatical symbols as we do? From a video I watched on Youtube, the Aliens that we have here on Earth (Area 51) had to create a new way of communicating with humans in order to talk to us. Whether that is true or not, who knows.

What's surprising is that they would even understand us. I wonder it the laws of physics change with each solar system. I don't think it would be constant across the universe.