YouTube video by Ben Syversen
The Invention That Saved Science
In the early 1600's, arguably the biggest obstacle to scientific progress was ... arithmetic.
Scientists spent months doing longhand computations to test their ideas.
But then, a new invention changed everything: logarithms.
My new video, out now: youtu.be/lhdmMqSmg5g
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Starring Math – National Museum of Mathematics
National Museum of Mathematics: Inspiring math exploration and discovery
Looking forward to tonight's event at @momath.bsky.social at 6:30 with @stevenstrogatz.com and Alex Kontorovich!
A screening of my video about the Archimedes Palimpsest, followed by a Q&A.
Details here: momath.org/archimedes/
30.04.2025 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The $2 Million Lost Book of Archimedes – National Museum of Mathematics
National Museum of Mathematics: Inspiring math exploration and discovery
If you're in NYC, come say hi on 4/30 at 6:30! I'll be at @MoMath for a screening of my video about the Archimedes Palimpsest, followed by a Q&A with me, @stevenstrogatz.com and @AlexKontorovich.
momath.org/archimedes
youtu.be/ZXNIgHov0Nk
09.04.2025 13:22 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Ben Syversen
The Ancient Genius who Measured the Sun
Thank you to Alex Kontorovich for your help and collaboration on this one.
It was a lot of fun to make and I hope it encourages everybody to see the half moon in the day sky in a slightly different light!
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03.03.2025 14:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New video!
2300 years ago, Aristarchus used very clever math to find relative sizes and distances of the sun, moon, and earth.
His math led him to heliocentrism, but the evidence raised an unanswerable question and his idea was discarded for centuries.
03.03.2025 14:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Ben Syversen
The $2 Million Book Revealing the Secrets of Ancient Math
A prayer book, destroyed by mold, sold for $2 million at an auction in 1998.
Underneath the prayers, scraped off and written over, was the only copy of the one letter that Archimedes wrote to his friend to reveal his private method for finding properties of curved shapes.
youtu.be/ZXNIgHov0Nk
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