Below are some images from the recent Numberphile video filmed in the Royal Society Archives.
If you liked this video on Numberphile, then Objectivity will probably be right up your alley. Check it out and subscribe if you like it!
As discussed on Hello Internet Episode 60... Delhi-Kathmandu-Paro and Paro-Delhi.
Everest was clouded out the first time but popped out the second time!
The latest Hello Internet includes a lot of video game discussion.
(Game discussion starts around 1 hr 15 min)
I thought I'd share here some clips from just a handful of the games that made an impact on me. And a few pictures too.
Packing away a few PlayStation games
My room-mate's set-up
Professor Martyn Poliakoff (of Periodic Videos fame) is currently in Japan in his role as Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society.
The Professor can always be counted on to email some unusual photos when he's travelling.
Here he is with our dedicated Japanese fan Nagayasu Nawa, who flew several hundred kilometres to meet The Prof in person.
The Japanese school teacher is well-known to Periodic Videos viewers for the quirky gifts he sends to The Professor, some of which have featured in our videos.
On this occasion the gift was a blue “Happi” coat emblazoned with the Periodic Table, of course.
The Professor also sent me this amusing "no drones" sign!
It's not easy constructing a perfect heptadecagon (regular 17-sided polygon) with ink.
Mathematician David Eisenbud famously showed this on Numberphile when his 17-gon demonstration went awry in amusing fashion (although the math lesson was still interesting and valid).
Professor Eisenbud's mishap spurred our audience to submit their own 17-gon attempts, some of which you can see at this link.
But no-one can top this submission from Brazilian physicist and Numberphile viewer Andre Reis Guimaraes.
Glad he didn't get Professor Eisenbud to handle the ink work!!!
Andre further explained: "I've always admired mathematics and all the amazing results you can take out of it just from some axioms, if I wasn't a physicist, I'd be a mathematician for sure.
"The tattoo was a 22nd birthday present. I was between the heptadecagon and the Mandelbrot set, but i just fell in live with the beauty of the lines.
"I've been a numberphile/sixty symbols/computerphile/objectivity fan for years now, and I really admire your work, as I admire the work of all those involved."
PS: 17-gons like this are displayed on some of the windows at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute where Professor Einsenbud is director. The address is 17 Gauss Way.
Just some of the the women working in STEM fields who have helped me make videos over the years!!!
Posted to coincide with International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Some amazing stuff at the Royal Society for the latest Objectivity video.
It all started with this old paper/letter from a guy called William Henry Fox Talbot in 1839.
Love the title...
Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing or, the process by which natural objects may be made to delineate themselves, without the aid of the artist's pencil.
So basically, photos!
He goes on to explain...
I proposed to spread on a sheet of paper a sufficient quantity of the nitrate of silver; & then to set the paper in the sunshine, having first placed before it some object casting a well defined shadow.
And so the letter continues - an amazing glimpse into the earliest days of photography.
It is little surprise this amazing document has been valued at £800,000, or about $1.2 million.
Keith Moore (head librarian at the Royal Society) also showed us an extraordinary collection of very early photos (some are posted below).
See more about them in our video.
TEASER: One is worth more than the others. In fact it has been valued at £500,000 ($720,000).
