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I will take this opportunity to promote the YouTube channels of Brady Haran[0], Numberphile specifically. It has all sorts of interesting videos, including Grah

I will take this opportunity to promote the YouTube channels of Brady Haran[0], Numberphile specifically. It has all sorts of interesting videos, including Graham's number [1] (one of the videos featuring Ron Graham) and TREE(3) [2]. His other channels are worth checking out too, Sixty Symbols and Deep Sky Videos being my favorites. To be clear, I have no affiliation with this, just a fan. [0] http://bradyharan.com/ http://bradyharan.com/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX8bihEe3nA&list=PLt5AfwLFPxWKZEG7KVg6HfdN2uWFLIB5q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX8bihEe3nA&list=PLt5AfwLFPx... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6DWAwwViU&t=54s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6DWAwwViU&t=54s

Balgair 9y ago
Numberphile is one of those series that makes me like math again. That strange, crazy, extreme logic is just great. Then I try to work with it, and I am made glad that I didn't pursue that career. I especially like the intro to Graham's number and the rough proof that it is unthinkably large, that your head would literally implode into a black hole an uncountable amount of times over. Math is so boggling. Numbers that are literally super-natural exist and are 'useful' at the same time, yet are impossible to mortals all the same. It's this weird end-around we manage with math/logic. That 'floor falling out from underneath you' feeling, a happy giddiness and smallness. Sorry, Graham's Number does something fierce to my head, it seems.