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Charles Darwin once wrote that he “deeply regretted that [he] did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to...
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I’ve been lucky enough to start a PostDoctoral position at MIT. It’s been over a month. And it’s been rough. The reason why it’s been rough is not because MIT is a bad environment — albeit hanging...
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The Two Solutions of Cheryl’s Birthday Viral Math Problem
You’ve probably already seen this math problem that went viral: But… did you know that it had 2 possible answers? Well, there’s one expected answer, and another one which kind of makes sense. To...
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I gave a talk at Harvard yesterday!
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For the last six months, I’ve been doing a new series of Youtube videos on my Science4All Youtube channel. Initially, my goal was to, in each video, start from a basic question, and get to a...
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Is special relativity relative? Space contraction and time dilation –...
So this was the first actual episode on relativity. But only special relativity. This video is pretty classic and there are a dozen of similar videos on youtube. I did it because I just had to do it....
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Episode 8 here is quite a detour on the way to general relativity. It’s about a very cool piece of geometry that’s embedded in the well-known shapes of soccer balls. So, how many panels will the 2018...
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What’s wrong with that map? Spherical Geometry | Science4All 9
After two episodes about flat surfaces, finally, Episode 9 introduces curved geometry. But we start easy, with the most familiar of all curved spaces: the sphere. Interestingly, the geometry of the...
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What’s a straight line? Curved-space geometry | Science4All 10
Straight lines in curved spaces are highly counter-intuitive, but they are the key to general relativity! Now, many mathematicians and physicists would say that they are distance-minimizing...
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My First Months in Boston
I’ve been lucky enough to start a PostDoctoral position at MIT. It’s been over a month. And it’s been rough. The reason why it’s been rough is not because MIT is a bad environment — albeit hanging...
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The Two Solutions of Cheryl’s Birthday Viral Math Problem
You’ve probably already seen this math problem that went viral: But… did you know that it had 2 possible answers? Well, there’s one expected answer, and another one which kind of makes sense. To...
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I gave a talk at Harvard yesterday!
And I loved it. It was part of the still-figuring-itself-out joint Harvard-MIT Postdoc science sharing seminars. My talk only lasted 8 minutes, and was about the online optimization problem I’m doing...
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Science4All on Youtube
For the last six months, I’ve been doing a new series of Youtube videos on my Science4All Youtube channel. Initially, my goal was to, in each video, start from a basic question, and get to a...
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Is special relativity relative? Space contraction and time dilation –...
So this was the first actual episode on relativity. But only special relativity. This video is pretty classic and there are a dozen of similar videos on youtube. I did it because I just had to do it....
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Can you glue opposite edges of a square? Nash’s embedding – Science4All #7
I’ve long regarded my 7th video as my best video. It has plenty of pretty cool stuffs inside it: concrete simple problem, Historical anecdote, well-known scientists, awesome mathematics, recent...
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Why do soccer balls have the shape they have? Platonic solids | Science4All 8
Episode 8 here is quite a detour on the way to general relativity. It’s about a very cool piece of geometry that’s embedded in the well-known shapes of soccer balls. So, how many panels will the 2018...
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What’s wrong with that map? Spherical Geometry | Science4All 9
After two episodes about flat surfaces, finally, Episode 9 introduces curved geometry. But we start easy, with the most familiar of all curved spaces: the sphere. Interestingly, the geometry of the...
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What’s a straight line? Curved-space geometry | Science4All 10
Straight lines in curved spaces are highly counter-intuitive, but they are the key to general relativity! Now, many mathematicians and physicists would say that they are distance-minimizing...
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