Logging the World - Oliver Johnson

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  • Опубліковано 5 бер 2024
  • During the pandemic, you may have seen graphs of data plotted on strange-looking (logarithmic) scales. Oliver will explain some of the basics and history of logarithms, and show why they are a natural tool to represent numbers ranging from COVID data to Instagram followers. In fact, we’ll see how logarithms can even help us understand information itself in a mathematical way.
    The solution to the two maths questions puzzle occurs from 9.20 onwards, though the fuller explanation starts from the beginning of the lecture.
    Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. He has regularly appeared on radio and is the author of the book Numbercrunch (2023), which is designed to help a general audience understand the value of maths as a toolkit for making sense of the world.

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  • @jacobgeorge08
    @jacobgeorge08 2 місяці тому +552

    Here after getting edged by that ig reel

    • @ankushds7018
      @ankushds7018 2 місяці тому +7

      I know! And now we have to wait? Rude

    • @prabhureubenthomas6052
      @prabhureubenthomas6052 2 місяці тому +4

      Yep same here

    • @jujt2258
      @jujt2258 2 місяці тому +2

      It’s really good advertising

    • @randomgeek9385
      @randomgeek9385 2 місяці тому

      Can you please share the link to it ?
      Thanks in advance

    • @jujt2258
      @jujt2258 2 місяці тому +3

      ⁠@@randomgeek9385I don’t think you can post links, it’s just the first minute of this lecture

  • @Magius06
    @Magius06 4 дні тому +36

    Lmao, how did some random short get me watching a full maths lecture

  • @ankushds7018
    @ankushds7018 2 місяці тому +50

    I can't believe I'm excited to watch a math lecture -- and adding it to my calender being a biology person. I'm a nerd

    • @user-un5wf5ou4h
      @user-un5wf5ou4h Місяць тому +3

      Nobody fucking asked

    • @ankushds7018
      @ankushds7018 Місяць тому

      @@user-un5wf5ou4h yay

    • @green1880
      @green1880 Місяць тому

      And No one asked you to be rude and comment. You seem mentally ill

    • @TurdBoi-tf5lf
      @TurdBoi-tf5lf День тому +1

      ​@@user-un5wf5ou4h I did actually. I asked

  • @maxpetrov4288
    @maxpetrov4288 2 місяці тому +25

    You've come to a math lecture on valentines Day - oh, that is sooo me

  • @smurphete
    @smurphete 2 місяці тому +22

    9:23 He explains why they're the same complexity...they're not.

  • @Aquamarinehoney
    @Aquamarinehoney 2 місяці тому +17

    The title won me hands down👍

  • @luisricardolopezvillafan3713
    @luisricardolopezvillafan3713 2 місяці тому +5

    A nice example of salesmanship for a math lecture

  • @anyalake
    @anyalake 2 місяці тому +16

    Click bait ig brought me here

  • @GabrielMcNeill
    @GabrielMcNeill 3 дні тому

    It was actually John Tukey (also at Bell Labs) who invented the word "bit," but Shannon used the word in a 1948 paper.

  • @taylortang1798
    @taylortang1798 2 місяці тому +4

    Can't believe I am here too

  • @hermansims2296
    @hermansims2296 2 місяці тому

    New Hampshire, U.S.A.

  • @nayrikamasjedi7961
    @nayrikamasjedi7961 2 місяці тому

    Yes I want to know how to beat look at the problem to solve it more efficiently.

  • @theark7111
    @theark7111 Місяць тому

    Pam Beesly brought me here but Oliver Johnson kept me ❤

  • @TPhillips-wj7iq
    @TPhillips-wj7iq 22 дні тому +1

    what does he use to make slides? does anyone know?

  • @KenMatthews-bd3ok
    @KenMatthews-bd3ok 2 місяці тому

    🗡🍎🫗

  • @vitekendrick2453
    @vitekendrick2453 Місяць тому

    P R O M O S M

  • @pma1377
    @pma1377 5 днів тому +1

    Such a messy talk... Who is this intended for?
    You're explaining what a log is and 2 minutes later you introduce PDEs?
    The content is very good but I think it could have been delivered a bit better!

  • @powderedphantom5765
    @powderedphantom5765 13 днів тому

    Evil John Oliver

  • @hermansims2296
    @hermansims2296 2 місяці тому +1

    Another NERD from NH 🙂👋

    • @randomgeek9385
      @randomgeek9385 2 місяці тому +1

      I am so lost, can you please tell wdym by NH
      Thanks in advance

    • @TurdBoi-tf5lf
      @TurdBoi-tf5lf День тому +1

      New Hampshire ​@@randomgeek9385

  • @katmai90210
    @katmai90210 Місяць тому +1

    in the same fashion of me writing a comment before i've watched the whole video, i'll head straight to my doom by doing just that:
    - Extremely disappointed. Came here expecting a video about logging the world's actions or some things about logging trees efficiently, got treated with a story about logarithms.
    - Convincing someone seems unnecessary, i mean if you think about it, you'd only need to convince someone of something when you don't know it yourself, but for some stupid reason, you decide to attempt at gathering more people in something you don't really know, which kinda means you're intentionally misdirecting them or if we were to be more prophetic "leading them astray". So the question is why would you do that? i mean if you knew something and you just wanted to pass that information to someone because you'd believe it would make their life better, you'd do simply that. You wouldn't really need to convince them would you?

    • @JeffMTX
      @JeffMTX Місяць тому

      That was the politicians (or somebody) DECEIVING people. And why?