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Towards a decentralised and personalised Web

by Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Towards a decentralised and personalised Web
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 13 years ago | 1269 views
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Social networks and collaborative tagging systems have taken off at an unexpected scale and speed. Pretty much everyone now generates Web content. This represents a revolution in usage and a great opportunity to leverage collaborative knowledge to en....

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00:34:00

Visit our website The structure of the Web

by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Visit our website The structure of the Web
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 13 years ago | 1416 views
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Systems as diverse as the World Wide Web, Internet or the cell are described by highly interconnected networks with amazingly complex topology. Recent studies indicate that these networks are the result of self-organizing processes governed by simple....

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Information theory meets writing

by David MacKay
Information theory meets writing
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 13 years ago | 1416 views
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Professor MacKay talks about Dasher, and other communication systems designed using information theory; especially communication systems aimed at disabled people.

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The Story of e

by Robin Wilson
The Story of e
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 13 years ago | 1425 views
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What do we mean by exponential growth? how quickly does your bank balance grow? how quickly does a cup of tea cool, or radium decay? what shape is a washing line? and what is the link with Gresham College?

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01:03:00

Mathematical curiosities and treasures.

by Ian Stewart
Mathematical curiosities and treasures.
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 5722 views
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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, a surprise Christmas bestseller, is now accompanied by his Hoard of Mathematical Treasures. Both books are mathematical miscellanies for the general public, ranging from one-liners to mini-essa....

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Complex Quantum Systems and Number Theory

by Jonathan Keating
Complex Quantum Systems and Number Theory
for 22 and upwards,
Lectures | 22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1997 views
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The last few years have seen the emergence of remarkable connections between fluctuation statistics in complex quantum systems and some long-standing and important problems in number theory, such as the distribution of the primes. They are still myst....

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Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician’s journey.

by Marcus du Sautoy
Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician’s journey.
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1721 views
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Symmetry is all around us. Our eyes and minds are drawn to symmetrical objects, from the sphere to the swastika, from the pyramid to the pentagon. Of fundamental significance to the way we interpret the world around us, this unique phenomenon indicat....

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Mathematics in the real world: From brain tumours to saving marriages

by James Murray
Mathematics in the real world: From brain tumours to saving marriages
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1579 views
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Practical mathematical models are becoming an accepted part of most medical and scientific disciplines. A few of the more unlikely applications are justifying intertribal warfare, the benefits of cannibalism, how the leopard gets its spots and demons....

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Geogebra

by Geogebra
Geogebra
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1684 views
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GeoGebra is dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins arithmetic, geometry, algebra and calculus. It offers multiple representations of objects in its graphics, algebra, and spreadsheet views that are all dynamically linked.....

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The Seven Hat Problem and Error Correcting Codes

by Steve Blumsack
The Seven Hat Problem and Error Correcting Codes
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1230 views
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The power of mathematical notation and reasoning is exploited to relate a famous recreational mathematics problem (hat problem) with an important method for sending and receiving messages that have a small percentage of errors (Hamming codes). The pr....

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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers – Paul Erdös

by Paul Hoffman
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers – Paul Erdös
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 6098 views
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An introduction to the life and style of the amazing Paul Erdös.  Paul Hoffman describes the life of Erdös in an intimate and entertaining glimpse into the global world of mathematics. Erdös was unusual not only intellectually but also in the way....

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All about conic sections

by Keith Taylor
All about conic sections
for 14-19 and upwards,
Teaching modules | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 6835 views
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This is a fully interactive program allowing many useful ways of investigating conic sections both visually and algebraically. It comes with a full set of explanatory notes for both teacher and pupil.

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