Anyone who’s ever grumbled about not using the math they learned in high school should listen up. The YouTubers over at Numberphile have finally found a use for those probability and statistics ...
Even though most of us know logic gates like the back of our hands, we just found this awesome explanation video you can use to teach kids in a very fun way — Using nothing but dominoes. Produced by ...
You might know that a googol—the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes—is a very large number indeed. You might even know that a googolplex—a 1 followed by a googol of zeros—is an even bigger number. But ...
YouTube is chock full of falling domino videos, but Numberphile’s Matt Parker may have trumped them all with a complicated 10,000 domino setup that just so happens to function as a very crude computer ...
If you overlay a copy of random dots on itself, and then rotate it, magic — or, rather, a trick of geometry and pattern recognition — happens. As Numberphile’s Tadashi Tokieda (who previously brought ...
The best kinds of ideas about numbers are easy to understand but devilish to actually prove. We saw that in the YouTube channel Numberphile's video about the Collatz conjecture. Now that channel and ...
A Secret Santa gift exchange is an easy way to get friends and coworkers in the giving spirit while keeping holiday spending in check. Here’s the most mathematically perfect method for running your ...
Part of the beauty of mathematics is that seemingly simple patterns lead to much more complicated questions and theories. The Collatz conjecture, which is the subject of a new video from YouTube ...