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Themes Numbers at Play
We all use numbers every day -- but some people have more fun with them than others. The talks in this Theme show off the amusements and amazements of math.
Look here for fresh ways to see and understand data ... for new patterns found in ancient cultures ... and for some good old-fashioned feats of numerical prestidigitation.
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Gary Wolf: The quantified self
05:10 Posted: Sep 2010
Views: 364,880 | Comments: 128
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Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing
07:38 Posted: Aug 2010
Views: 562,328 | Comments: 118
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Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness
17:09 Posted: Jul 2010
Views: 536,499 | Comments: 115
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Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
19:58 Posted: Apr 2010
Views: 821,749 | Comments: 258
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Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when
15:50 Posted: Nov 2009
Views: 1,062,818 | Comments: 261
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Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle
18:19 Posted: Oct 2009
Views: 348,475 | Comments: 64
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Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset
19:56 Posted: Aug 2009
Views: 772,379 | Comments: 109
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Arthur Benjamin: Teach statistics before calculus!
02:58 Posted: Jun 2009
Views: 1,097,066 | Comments: 311
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Sean Gourley on the mathematics of war
07:19 Posted: May 2009
Views: 442,554 | Comments: 128
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Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral
15:33 Posted: Apr 2009
Views: 455,705 | Comments: 97
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