Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
Harmonic things
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The difference between series that are finite and infinite. Simple proofs by pictures. The ubiquity of the harmonic series. The Painter's Paradox. Going to infinity very slowly. How often should there be a record year of rainfall? The Problem of the Pile of Books, the Jeep Refueling Problem, and...