Ben Syversen
@BenSyversen
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Video documentaries featuring stories from the history of math and science.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined September 2023
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:
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RT @VergaraLautaro: HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS. Carl Friedrich Gauss was known for his reluctance to publish his results, often keeping groundb….
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The "For You" feed: "Here's a cool thread about Carl Friedrich Gauss that you might enjoy. Just tap on it to expand!". "Whoop, too slow." . [the feed automatically refreshes with the usual cesspool of content. ].
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This is impressive. But it's perplexing to me that AI systems can do this, yet they can't generate a set of multi step linear equation problems for middle schoolers without routinely making mistakes in the answer key. (specifically I'm using Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet).
Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad.
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This is fantastic:.
My new #math series in the New York Times, "Math, Revealed," is aimed at everyone, whether you love math or not. Have a look! You can read it here for free without a subscription.
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RT @AbideByReason: MATH HISTORY TIDBIT. Once when Henri Lebesgue entered the Scottish Cafe (a coffee shop in Poland), he was given a menu w….
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Looking forward to tonight's event at @MoMath1 at 6:30 with @stevenstrogatz and @AlexKontorovich!. A screening of my video about the Archimedes Palimpsest, followed by a Q&A.
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Event info: Video (the version shown at MoMath will be a "director's cut" of sorts, with some additional interview material):
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If you're in NYC, come say hi on 4/30 at 6:30! I'll be at @MoMath1 for a screening of my video about the Archimedes Palimpsest, followed by a Q&A with me, @stevenstrogatz and @AlexKontorovich. Links in the comments.
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RT @AlexKontorovich: Looking forward to hanging out with @BenSyversen and @stevenstrogatz at @MoMath1 on Wednesday, April 30, at 6:30 pm, f….
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Yesterday the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid in honor of William Noel, the leader of the Archimedes Palimpsest project! . A viewer told me that he nominated Noel after seeing my video on the topic and learning of his passing.
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RT @AlexKontorovich: One of my all-time favorite stories in the history of math/science is how the ancients "wrestled the gods" by "stealin….
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Thank you to @AlexKontorovich 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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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.
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Hey @TeamYoutube: this is a high quality creator featuring videos about advanced math. Not spam, automation, etc. He's been unfairly demonetized over "invalid traffic" which he has no control over and is doing everything he can to remedy. Please take another look at this!.
@TeamYouTube is there anything else you can do to help me? My AdSense account is still banned for "invalid traffic." I've not violated any guidelines/terms of service. After being banned, I've turned off embedding on all my videos, removed them from any social media sites, (1/2).
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Special thanks to @stevenstrogatz and @amiralex for helping me tell this wonderful story!.
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A 13th century prayer book sold for $2,000,000 at auction. 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 of finding properties of curved shapes.
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Any other math Twitter folks like to cook? How do you dice your onions?. In this article, Kenji Lopez-Alt and Rui Viana use computer models to find the ideal knife pattern, but I wonder if there's an elegant mathematical way to find it. @stevenstrogatz.
nytimes.com
The cookbook author Kenji López-Alt dives deep into a question of his own, with computer models and all.
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