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Transcendental Numbers - Numberphile

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Numbers like e and Pi cannot be made using normal algebra.
Featuring Australia's Numeracy Ambassador, Simon Pampena.
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Discussing transendental numbers, algebraic numbers, pi, e and other stuff.

Simon's website: http://www.numbercrunch.com.au/

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20 Comments

@S4MJ4M 10 years ago

"So it'll be 10$ sir."
"You mean 10 in base 10?"
-_-

@cantwakeup4967 9 years ago

'7π - 22 = 0'
- Simon Pampena, 2013

@NotMe6044 9 years ago

Are we just gonna breeze past people dying because of the square root of 2?

@kikivoorburg 4 years ago

Using a “reduce to zero game” to intuitively explain algebraic numbers is actually really smart!

@GeldarionTFS 11 years ago

My favorite part of these videos is how excited each mathematician gets about their particular number. Other people feel how I feel!

@cubethesquid3919 9 years ago

I love that he said in all seriousness that if he could add to the knowledge of pi, he would die a happy man

@TheAtb85 12 years ago

You know things got serious when you're asked which base you're expressing your numbers in. :D

@abdulhadiayyad 2 years ago

Ah yes if you're an engineer, "pi is 22/7". Devastating.

@loljk981 10 years ago

"Square root of 2, you know, people died for this number" STORY TIME

@NotTheRealBassKitten 11 years ago

That sigh at the end knowing that a good days maths has been done... :)

@mattwinward3168 8 years ago

“You mean 10 in base 10?”

— cheekiest comment ever made on YouTube.

@hliask903 10 years ago

Glad to see that Syrio Forel didn't die after all :)

@fionna9891 11 years ago

"You cannot not like pi." Say that to ViHart.

@martinda7446 12 years ago (edited)

Engineers DO NOT use 22/7! I always approximate to 3.14159 if no calc. handy.
EDIT: Except my mental arithmetic is awful, so really I use 3.0 and I just pretend and fiddle a bit - adding a few numbers to guess the decimal places - The bridge is still standing, but it does have a bit of a crack through the middle, and my gears are not quite round, but hey, it just makes a funny noise and fails every six months.

@ericvkenny3626 10 years ago

This man is great with words. He translates sqroots to sentences and tells elaborate vibrant stories. His games transform numbers to characters. He should consider writing a book on math, or math journalism.

@shinewherethouwillandthouh7455 5 years ago (edited)

I first watched this video when I was a freshman in High school. It blew my mind. Now I'm in Field theory almost done with undergrad and I saw the material again and I thought "That was it! That was the thing! This is what Simon was doing!" It made me very excited when I realized c:

@N0Xa880iUL 1 year ago

So two transcendental numbers together bring us back to Algebra.

@christianosminroden7878 1 year ago (edited)

Gotta love how he as casually as immediately asked "you mean 10 in base 10?" just to clarify, as if that was something that obviously needed clarification for everyone to begin with.
That's how you spot someone who's doing maths as a full time occupation.

@nosuchthing8 10 years ago

"no flies on you" aweome phrase

@shubhamhorambe7903 10 years ago

At 10:16 simon says the "e raise to any algebraic number is transcendental ..but he forgot to say that the number also needs to be non zero , since e^0 is 1 which is not transcendental