Mathematics


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Transit of Venus: Passing the Sun
David A. Aguilar
April 7, 2004
00:58:02
David A. Aguilar and Jay M. Pasachoff discuss June 8th, 2004, when we on Earth will witness Venus passing in front of the Sun for the first time in 122 years. This phenomenon, known as the transit of Venus, is one of the rarest of planetary alignments.
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Linked: Networks from Biology to the World Wide Web
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
September 27, 2005
01:16:36
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, a Notre Dame University physics professor, explores the relationships of various kinds of complex networks from cells and epidemics, to the World Wide Web, with a bit of 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' in between.
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Philosophy Circa 1905
Ray Monk
October 12, 2005
01:03:33
Ray Monk describes the state of Western philosophy circa 1905 by picking out some of the most influential works of philosophy that were published in or shortly before that year, and describing both th
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Strange Views of Space and Time: Einstein to String Theory
Gary Horowitz
October 23, 2005
01:00:37
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Einstein's "miraculous year", Gary Horowitz describes the modern view of space and time.
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Counting the Dead in Iraq
Gilbert Burnham
February 27, 2007
01:23:04
Gilbert Burnham explains how his 2006 Johns Hopkins study arrived at a different number (650,000) than the UN did (34,000) in its estimate of Iraqis killed in the war.
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Meet the "Other" Einstein
John Stachel
October 23, 2005
00:54:54
It is well known that Einstein worked to develop a unified field theory that would encompass all of physics including (he hoped) all quantum phenomena.
Was Einstein Right?
Clifford Will
October 5, 2005
01:01:05
Clifford Will discusses how the most celebrated scientific theory of the 20th century held up under the exacting scrutiny of planetary probes, radio telescopes and atomic clocks.
Celebrating Leonhard Euler and Sudoku
Ulrich Huhn
April 27, 2007
01:26:55
Mathematicians celebrate the 300th birthday of the great Swiss mathematician and scientist Leonhard Euler (1707-1783).