Sydney University Library has a copy of Newton's Principia with a note from Newton in it to Roger Cotes who edited the work. I was allowed to touch it so I can say I have touched something that Newton touched!
Thank you so much for sharing this incredibly inspiring video. Seeing the evolution of knowledge and feeling sort of in touch with the greats of the past moved me emotionally and actually got me excited to continue studying and feed my curiosity.
hi from Colombia, I'm studing physics but i wanna make a double titulation with mathematics and probably make my Phd on dynamical systems or stadistical mechanis, i am really thankfull to this channel for keep me falling in love with math every day, and also for help me with my english
Interestingly, the oils in your hands actually benefit old books, because the paper was made to be handled. Also, gloves can make you more clumsy, and more likely to tear a delicate page.
That game started to sound like a logic puzzle for a second, I know that sounds dumb but the rules sounded like clues in logic puzzle games. When he started saying pigs being fat. Emperors being dentists lol
Prof. could you please one day make a video about how to use log tables? It would interest me how people computed before we hat calculators and computers. 🙂 But only if you want that of course. 👍
When I first worked as an engineer we used slide rules to calculate generally and log tables for more complex calcs. Both use the same method and is so simple, log tables just need he ability to add up. So during my working life we've gone from tables to spreadsheets,
It's a dying skill, I used log tables and slide rules (which are effectively the same thing) at school and struggled to explain them to a teenage staff member when she asked about them. They were so easy to use but without access to a log table book or slide rule fifty years later I couldn't prove how easy it was
For actual log tables the primary use was to convert multiplications to additions, especially when calculations where done manually (but slide rules mechanised that, of course). For a larger numbers it's pretty obvious that complexity of addition is much lower than multiplication, and looking up an entry on a table is pretty quick in comparison... Practical use is really not particularly complicated. So, for a multiplication, look up log values of multiplicands from the table, add them up, and look up reverse logarithm value from the table, and you have the result of the multiplication. With subtraction you get division. In practice you would need to scale numbers to fit a fixed range and scale them back, but that is also just shifting the decimal point and addition. One would also be able to compute squares by multiplying the log value by two and looking up the reverse, or taking a square root similarly by dividing by two, etc.
Thank you for let us having a glimpse into the holy Oxford math library. Frozen urine and its various crystals in comparison with snowflakes, refreshingly concrete. Love illustrated science books.
That game started to sound like a logic puzzle for a second, I know that sounds dumb but the rules sounded like clues in logic puzzle games. When he started saying pigs being fat. Emperors being dentists lol
Interestingly, the oils in your hands actually benefit old books, because the paper was made to be handled. Also, gloves can make you more clumsy, and more likely to tear a delicate page.
The Greeks were the 1st ones to write about maths ? Really ? I must have hallucinated the sumerians having laid the foundations and mastered maths several thousand years before the Greeks.
Nope. Sweat is not harmful to paper. And wearing gloves actually make our hand less sensitive therefore increasing risk of damaging the delicate paper.
If he's talking about books, he needs to speak louder. Didn't understand half the things he said cause of the volume. Some of these books are fascinating but were presented poorly by this guy. Thanks Tom for giving us a glimpse though
@@aguyontheinternet8436 What's the point of the video then genius. The whole point is that he is an expert and is on the channel to provide his insights on these books.Tom doesn't have that level of knowledge about these books.
James' outfit is awesome, literally exactly how I'd imagine an Oxford librarian 😂
People named Tom should stay out of the restricted section of the library
Man of culture I see.
I dont get the reference
It's Harry Potter
@Samriddha Chatterjee Ahh, Tom Riddle yeah?
Tom Riddle for people who don’t know
Sydney University Library has a copy of Newton's Principia with a note from Newton in it to Roger Cotes who edited the work. I was allowed to touch it so I can say I have touched something that Newton touched!
Thank you so much for sharing this incredibly inspiring video. Seeing the evolution of knowledge and feeling sort of in touch with the greats of the past moved me emotionally and actually got me excited to continue studying and feed my curiosity.
hi from Colombia,
I'm studing physics but i wanna make a double titulation with mathematics and probably make my Phd on dynamical systems or stadistical mechanis, i am really thankfull to this channel for keep me falling in love with math every day, and also for help me with my english
Quite the history man! Nothing like it, I bet! Thank you for this!
Literally couldnt care less about maths and yet here I am. Dudes vids are genienuly interesting and this certainly is. Keep up the good work.
would love to see more, thank you for the short visit
Hi Tom - thanks for this wander through your college library ... surprised James didnt handle all of the books with gloves but he knows best...
Interestingly, the oils in your hands actually benefit old books, because the paper was made to be handled. Also, gloves can make you more clumsy, and more likely to tear a delicate page.
Thanks for sharing this incredible video Tom...
Wow, it is so awesome! Thank you for showing us this
32:37 James remembers there's a camera, and it's not just a convivial chat with a charming mathematician.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing it, I'd love to see more of that game of logic!
That game started to sound like a logic puzzle for a second, I know that sounds dumb but the rules sounded like clues in logic puzzle games. When he started saying pigs being fat. Emperors being dentists lol
Prof. could you please one day make a video about how to use log tables? It would interest me how people computed before we hat calculators and computers. 🙂 But only if you want that of course. 👍
When I first worked as an engineer we used slide rules to calculate generally and log tables for more complex calcs. Both use the same method and is so simple, log tables just need he ability to add up. So during my working life we've gone from tables to spreadsheets,
It's a dying skill, I used log tables and slide rules (which are effectively the same thing) at school and struggled to explain them to a teenage staff member when she asked about them. They were so easy to use but without access to a log table book or slide rule fifty years later I couldn't prove how easy it was
I can't remember what I was taught about log tables back in the 70s. Wish I could. But I remember the wonderful word, 'mantissa'
I have JUST the video for you :D
check out _"The History of the Natural Logarithm - How was it discovered?"_ by _Terek Said_
For actual log tables the primary use was to convert multiplications to additions, especially when calculations where done manually (but slide rules mechanised that, of course). For a larger numbers it's pretty obvious that complexity of addition is much lower than multiplication, and looking up an entry on a table is pretty quick in comparison...
Practical use is really not particularly complicated.
So, for a multiplication, look up log values of multiplicands from the table, add them up, and look up reverse logarithm value from the table, and you have the result of the multiplication. With subtraction you get division. In practice you would need to scale numbers to fit a fixed range and scale them back, but that is also just shifting the decimal point and addition.
One would also be able to compute squares by multiplying the log value by two and looking up the reverse, or taking a square root similarly by dividing by two, etc.
Thank you for let us having a glimpse into the holy Oxford math library.
Frozen urine and its various crystals in comparison with snowflakes, refreshingly concrete.
Love illustrated science books.
at 3:27 what does Sottish education was more forward looking mean?
I wanna travel to oxford now.
What a neat video!
That game started to sound like a logic puzzle for a second, I know that sounds dumb but the rules sounded like clues in logic puzzle games. When he started saying pigs being fat. Emperors being dentists lol
I read a book a few years ago wherein the two protagonists (male and female) bonded because of their love of Lewis Carroll's syllogisms....
So cool!
Missed opportunity to make the qr code tattoo a rick roll
Those circles and triangles look relatively easy than those in GCSE syllabus lol, made me feel less guilty of how bad I am with them
Please solve JEE ADVANCE maths paper ❤
crazy to think how calculus still didnt formally exist when that euclids element copy was made
That is an incredibly long T-shirt
My first thought as well.
Love from India
part 2
Wow treasure
21,17,,,,,,,
If you want to see another use of Carroll's puzzles, see Weekland by Godard.
Sorry, Weekend.
Cool! :)
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win...I guess He
but I try study
very cool:)
I guess they do not pay Tom much if he can't afford a haircut.
surprized no gloves!
Wearing gloves actually increases the risk of damaging the delicate paper. Since the gloves make our hand less sensitive
Surely he should be wearing gloves!
Interestingly, the oils in your hands actually benefit old books, because the paper was made to be handled. Also, gloves can make you more clumsy, and more likely to tear a delicate page.
The Greeks were the 1st ones to write about maths ? Really ? I must have hallucinated the sumerians having laid the foundations and mastered maths several thousand years before the Greeks.
Western history is a lie, they dont talk about sumerian or islamic civilisation
should have not touched these books with fingers. You might have transferred sweat n residual fat onto the pages.
Nope. Sweat is not harmful to paper. And wearing gloves actually make our hand less sensitive therefore increasing risk of damaging the delicate paper.
If he's talking about books, he needs to speak louder. Didn't understand half the things he said cause of the volume. Some of these books are fascinating but were presented poorly by this guy. Thanks Tom for giving us a glimpse though
He isn't trying to talk to us, he's trying to talk to Tom. You're lucky to hear anything at all
Many books in that library have more than just one volume though...
So the change in sound is expected.
@@aguyontheinternet8436 What's the point of the video then genius. The whole point is that he is an expert and is on the channel to provide his insights on these books.Tom doesn't have that level of knowledge about these books.
It's sad that "Oxford Maths Professor" continues to be represented by this kind of hoary stereotype.
I don’t feel comfortable when he touches the book with no delicate 😂