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From the YouTube channel of the Museum Of Mathematics.

What is mathematics and why does it work? In this talk, John Barrow will look at some of the ways in which mathematics can tell you things about the world that you cannot learn in any other way: how computers have extended the reach of human mathematicians, the simple nature of many hard problems that no computer can solve, how to win at dice, coach Olympic sports champions, and even discover whether the Premier Football League is just a random process.

Click here for the talk with slides. Click here for more TV from the Royal Society.

The cartoon is taken from http://spikedmath.com/hot.html.

Do you have a favourite math cartoon?

Here is one of mine.

After creating them, God told all the creatures to go forth, be fruitful, and multiply. All the animals dispersed except for two little snakes, who were looking very sad. Adam asked them why they were sad. “We’re adders,” the snakes replied. “We can’t multiply.” Adam thought for a minute, took his little hatchet, chopped down a couple of small trees, constructed a table, and presented it to the snakes. “Here’s a log table,” he said. “Now you can multiply.”

This joke, and other stuff, you’ll find here.