His other channels are worth checking out too, Sixty Symbols and Deep Sky Videos being my favorites. To be clear, I have no affiliation with this, just a fan.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX8bihEe3nA&list=PLt5AfwLFPx...
His other channels are worth checking out too, Sixty Symbols and Deep Sky Videos being my favorites. To be clear, I have no affiliation with this, just a fan.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX8bihEe3nA&list=PLt5AfwLFPx...
I especially like the intro to Graham's number and the rough proof that it is unthinkably large, that your head would literally implode into a black hole an uncountable amount of times over.
Math is so boggling. Numbers that are literally super-natural exist and are 'useful' at the same time, yet are impossible to mortals all the same. It's this weird end-around we manage with math/logic. That 'floor falling out from underneath you' feeling, a happy giddiness and smallness.
Sorry, Graham's Number does something fierce to my head, it seems.