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EPISODE · Dec 31, 2016 · 4 MIN

Beautiful Mathematics in the Natural World

from Siraj Raval

This is my end of the year video! I wanted to do something a little different. I traveled to Portland, Oregon for a week to explore/meet people and decided to use the shots I took while hiking to illustrate how math is all around us in the natural world. We can and will discover the rules of intelligence. The fact that it is governed by mathematics only makes it that much more beautiful. From simple rules emerge incredible complexity. Vishal's Winning code: https://github.com/erilyth/visualize_dataset_demo Sethu's runner up code: https://github.com/sethuiyer/visualize-GOT Original peer-reviewed paper in Science mag by Cambridge Professor Stolum (cited 221 times) on how the average sinuosity of all rivers is pi: http://raaf.org/pdfs/meandering_river.pdf More Learning Resources: https://www.comsol.com/multiphysics/navier-stokes-equations https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/21/magic-numbers-can-maths-equations-be-beautiful https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/the-breeders-equation/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzCvlFRISIM Join us in the Wizards Slack Channel: http://wizards.herokuapp.com/ Please Subscribe! And like. And comment. That's what keeps me going. And please support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3191693 The background music is the Interstellar theme by Hans Zimmer Follow me: Twitter: https://twitter.com/sirajraval Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sirajology Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sirajraval/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sirajraval/

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