Math of the impossible

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Curated by: TED-Ed (15 videos)

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Tracks in this Playlist

• Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm
• Newton’s three-body problem explained - Fabio Pacucci
• The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky
• Exponential growth: How folding paper can get you to the Moon
• A brief history of banned numbers - Alessandra King
• The mathematics of sidewalk illusions - Fumiko Futamura
• What is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox? - Colm Kelleher
• The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" - Natalya St. Clair
• How big is infinity? - Dennis Wildfogel
• Exploring other dimensions - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan
• Why do airlines sell too many tickets? - Nina Klietsch
• Football physics: The "impossible" free kick - Erez Garty
• The case of the missing fractals - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan
• The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - Marcus du Sautoy
• The physics behind Einstein’s most famous equation - Lindsay DeMarchi and Fabio Pacucci