Math in Real Life

Math in Real Life

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The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT

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The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT

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  1. 1 Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm
  2. 2 Where do math symbols come from? - John David Walters
  3. 3 What's the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf? - Chand John
  4. 4 Why do airlines sell too many tickets? - Nina Klietsch
  5. 5 What's the difference between accuracy and precision? - Matt Anticole
  6. 6 How high can you count on your fingers? (Spoiler: much higher than 10) - James Tanton
  7. 7 The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" - Natalya St. Clair
  8. 8 The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky
  9. 9 Can you solve the bridge riddle? - Alex Gendler
  10. 10 Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? - Alex Gendler
  11. 11 Can you solve "Einstein’s Riddle"? - Dan Van der Vieren
  12. 12 Can you solve the temple riddle? - Dennis E. Shasha
  13. 13 Can you solve the three gods riddle? - Alex Gendler
  14. 14 Can you solve the locker riddle? - Lisa Winer
  15. 15 Can you solve the passcode riddle? - Ganesh Pai
  16. 16 Can you solve the prisoner boxes riddle? - Yossi Elran
  17. 17 Can you solve the frog riddle? - Derek Abbott
  18. 18 Can you solve the counterfeit coin riddle? - Jennifer Lu
  19. 19 Can you solve the control room riddle? - Dennis Shasha
  20. 20 Can you solve the virus riddle? - Lisa Winer
  21. 21 Can you solve the airplane riddle? - Judd A. Schorr
  22. 22 Why do competitors open their stores next to one another? - Jac de Haan
  23. 23 Can you solve the river crossing riddle? - Lisa Winer
  24. 24 Can you solve the pirate riddle? - Alex Gendler
  25. 25 Exponential Growth: How Folding Paper Can Get You to the Moon
  26. 26 Can you solve the fish riddle? - Steve Wyborney
  27. 27 Can you solve the egg drop riddle? - Yossi Elran
  28. 28 Exploring other dimensions - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan
  29. 29 Why do honeybees love hexagons? - Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson
  30. 30 What is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox? - Colm Kelleher
  31. 31 The mathematical secrets of Pascal’s triangle - Wajdi Mohamed Ratemi
  32. 32 Is math discovered or invented? - Jeff Dekofsky
  33. 33 Can you solve the dark coin riddle? - Lisa Winer
  34. 34 Group theory 101: How to play a Rubik’s Cube like a piano - Michael Staff
  35. 35 How to defeat a dragon with math - Garth Sundem
  36. 36 Check your intuition: The birthday problem - David Knuffke
  37. 37 One is one ... or is it?
  38. 38 The last banana: A thought experiment in probability - Leonardo Barichello
  39. 39 How many ways can you arrange a deck of cards? - Yannay Khaikin
  40. 40 Inside OKCupid: The math of online dating - Christian Rudder
  41. 41 What's an algorithm? - David J. Malan
  42. 42 Can you solve the seven planets riddle? - Edwin F. Meyer
  43. 43 A brief history of banned numbers - Alessandra King
  44. 44 The math behind Michael Jordan’s legendary hang time - Andy Peterson and Zack Patterson
  45. 45 The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT
  46. 46 How many ways are there to prove the Pythagorean theorem? - Betty Fei
  47. 47 The infinite life of pi - Reynaldo Lopes
  48. 48 How to spot a misleading graph - Lea Gaslowitz
  49. 49 A clever way to estimate enormous numbers - Michael Mitchell
  50. 50 Why do people get so anxious about math? - Orly Rubinsten
  51. 51 The case of the missing fractals - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan
  52. 52 What happens if you guess - Leigh Nataro
  53. 53 Making sense of irrational numbers - Ganesh Pai
  54. 54 How the Königsberg bridge problem changed mathematics - Dan Van der Vieren
  55. 55 Pizza physics (New York-style) - Colm Kelleher
  56. 56 The beauty of data visualization - David McCandless
  57. 57 Did Shakespeare write his plays? - Natalya St. Clair and Aaron Williams
  58. 58 The mathematics of sidewalk illusions - Fumiko Futamura
  59. 59 Why are manhole covers round? - Marc Chamberland
  60. 60 Can you find the next number in this sequence? - Alex Gendler
  61. 61 What is a vector? - David Huynh
  62. 62 A brief history of numerical systems - Alessandra King
  63. 63 The coin flip conundrum - Po-Shen Loh
  64. 64 The mighty mathematics of the lever - Andy Peterson and Zack Patterson
  65. 65 What in the world is topological quantum matter? - Fan Zhang
  66. 66 An introduction to mathematical theorems - Scott Kennedy
  67. 67 How algorithms shape our world - Kevin Slavin
  68. 68 How to visualize one part per million - Kim Preshoff + The TED-Ed Community
  69. 69 How does math guide our ships at sea? - George Christoph
  70. 70 How to organize, add and multiply matrices - Bill Shillito
  71. 71 The time value of money - German Nande
  72. 72 A trip through space to calculate distance - Heather Tunnell
  73. 73 Euclid's puzzling parallel postulate - Jeff Dekofsky
  74. 74 Math class needs a makeover - Dan Meyer
  75. 75 Gridiron physics: Scalars and vectors - Michelle Buchanan
  76. 76 Why can't you divide by zero? - TED-Ed
  77. 77 The beautiful math of coral - Margaret Wertheim
  78. 78 Fractals and the art of roughness - Benoit Mandelbrot
  79. 79 Symmetry, reality's riddle - Marcus du Sautoy
  80. 80 Building unimaginable shapes - Michael Hansmeyer
  81. 81 Can you solve the Mondrian squares riddle? - Gordon Hamilton
  82. 82 How exactly does binary code work? - José Américo N L F de Freitas
  83. 83 Can you solve the Leonardo da Vinci riddle? - Tanya Khovanova
  84. 84 The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor
  85. 85 The satisfying math of folding origami - Evan Zodl
  86. 86 The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - Marcus du Sautoy
  87. 87 The method that can "prove" almost anything - James A. Smith

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