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The Useless Number

The Useless Number

Brady Haran
Barry Mazur, Complex Numbers
Alex Bellos discusses how the Incans used knots in string (Quipu) to record numbers.Check out Brilliant (get 20% off their premium service): https://brillian...

One of the first people to stumble over imaginary numbers (namely the square root of -15) thought it was "subtle" and "useless".

Featuring Barry Mazur.
Extra footage from this interview: http://youtu.be/i4GCd2xOCDg
Barry's book on this topic: http://bit.ly/RootMinusFifteen

Barry on scale and similarity: http://youtu.be/ItiFO5y36kw

58 and other Confusing Numbers

58 and other Confusing Numbers
Little Professor (Dr Grime's Toy Story)

Little Professor (Dr Grime's Toy Story)