A Chain of Chance (with Michael Merrifield) - Numberphile Podcast
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- Astronomer Mike Merrifield had terrible handwriting and dreamed of captaining a submarine - now he's an astronomer and world expert on galaxies.
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Professor Michael Merrifield - about.me/michael.merrifield
Mike's Twitter - / astromikemerri
Mike Merrifield Video Playlist - bit.ly/Merrifield_Playlist
Sixty Symbols - Physics videos, many featuring Mike - / sixtysymbols
Deep Sky Videos - / deepskyvideos
Messier Objects Playlist - bit.ly/MessierObjects
Ralph Merrifield - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_M...
Ralph Merrifield author page on Amazon - amzn.to/3Hff0Gj
Galactic Astronomy by James Binney and Michael Merrifield - amzn.to/3Xme4Fs
Hand-written version of Mike's 'Good Will Hunting' paper - brady-haran.squarespace.com/s...
And here is the published version - adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1990A...
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With thanks to SLMath - www.msri.org
The legend himself
I'm just 12 minutes in, and am hooked. I've been following Brady's and prof Mike's collaboration for years. I've seen them on screen more often than some of the family members.
It's delightful to discover the professor's path in life.
just found this what a pleasure, Mike Merrifield is always a joy to listen to , must be great to have him as a mentor
One of my favourite Bradyverse professors finally in long form podcast content. Great episode
What a pleasure!
Been waiting for a Mike Merrifield podcast! My joint top favourite regular guest of all Brady's guests across all channels. Wish he had been my teacher🙌 Always jump at the chance to watch him when he's in Sixty Symbols / Deep Sky / Numberphile.
Who else your joint favourite guest?
Tony Padilla, currently working through his book Fantastic Numbers And Where To Find Them
Love the life advice for people who wants to follow a carrier in academia. This podcast always serves as a inspiration to me
thanks for sharing. .just found listening to your podcasts while trading works for me :)
10:23 yes please!
Cool podcast
YESSS!!! Just wish there was a video with it. Think it would get way more views with a video of you two
Should've asked him which observatory proposal he'd fund if he wrote the checks
An astronomy question: are the rotational planes of star systems in the Milky Way fully random, or is there a preference (like being in mostly the same plane as the galactic disk)?
Every time I listen to one of these, I think about how their life matches to my own. And it may not be the healthiest thing in the world, but I still do it.
In this case, I do have terrible handwriting and spelling, but it has nothing to do with hippie culture, I tend to writer's cramp and migrains and disgraphia is a thing. But not enough for it to be diagnosed as anything, so I spent a large part of my time having people lecture me on why I should have neater writing and be able to spell but I was simply not able to do it reliably.
I thought I might be interested in engeneering or politics, but as I've gotten older, I think art or design would have been better. But I never really gave it a try. I'm really glad to have learned what I did, but I think I missed out. Then again, I may have felt that way regardless.
And yeah, it's a chain of chance. My own hasn't worked out as well as his. And these things happen.
lol I’ve been looking for a STEM job cause of my terrible handwriting too! Was drawn more to numbers partially due to the fact people had a hard time reading my letters and not numbers. A couple years out of college. I believe I went to a good elementary school though.
Disgraphia is a thing.
I despised Shakespeare as a child. As an adult, my attitude has only gotten worse. : )
Make it a video podcast next time brady
andi from minspace
Man flexed how easy it was to get into Harvard, uk people are different
Keep in mind it probably used to be much easier than now because going to university really wasn’t as much of an option as it is now. It probably wasn’t easy, but certainly was easier.