Feyman - Mayans, Counting Nuts, Lucky Numbers & Gods lol

[bolivianex]

they say they burned all the books but did they !!

Ask the preist's

[fcaneo2]

4:29 Mathematics: "just tricky ways of doing something which would be laborious otherwise." Feyman is amazing!

[benjackowitz]

who is the one guy that dislikes this?

[dlbattle100]

@benjackowitz a spanish priest.

[whisperr33]

what series of videos is this from? Where did you get it??? please answer!

[astroboomboy]

Is the thing that he says about Mayans true? That is one of the most evil things I have ever heard...

[pubuman]

@astroboomboy I'm not sure if that particular story is true (I wouldn't be surprised) - but a lot of the latter European conquests of older civilizations led to this sort of thing quite a lot. The Spanish were bad, but so were the Brits etc ... and a lot of knowledge from the Arabic world was lost during the crusades for similar reasons ... and in China as well ...

[Tapecutter59]

Great clip but his name is misspelt in the title.

[GeneralGuy77]

1:58 That part where he goes "wuddawuddawa", my science teacher in middle school did that exact same thing. And he always talked with that same genuine excitement.

Man, he was cool.

[cutes22]

Man, I wish he was alive today. He would be a blast to have around now.

[yonopuedo90]

I have a profound respect for this man. Not only is he incredibly smart, but more importantly he is able to communicate complex ideas in relatively simple terms. It seems as though it's so easy for highly intelligent people to make the listener feel stupid (ie: Neil DeGrasse Tyson answering questions from young students in a lecture). But with Feynman, it's almost as if he's encouraging you, on a personal level, to let your mind wander and start asking "why?" or "how?". Makes all the difference

[jimaldo64]

@yonopuedo90

"able to communicate complex ideas in relatively simple terms" now that, is my definition of...'genius' :-)

[SoNDgs]

Civilisation reduced to 3 random books.

[baxtar1963]

Some claim the Mayans knew about Pluto, how is this possible? They also knew about the 26,000 year cycle of the earths precession.

[pitupraveen]

hey, you beat me to it :)

i should have checked youtube thoroughly before uploading a duplicate

awesome video

[gamernaveen]

How does he tell 8 time 365 is 2920 instantly ?

[SeedsofJoy]

@gamernaveen Because he was a fucking genius.

[zapopaul]

@gamernaveen

one obvious possibility is that he knowns the number by heart(unlikely in his case) the second, more likely he relates in one of his books(possibly "what do you care what other people think") a method he learned for doing this dealing with approximations and knowing the results of a lot of calculations.

[ForeverTrombone]

To the man who uploaded this: THANK YOU.

[timeweston]

Those Priests 6:11 hehe nice spotting.

[jvp367]

... To the Priests, who burned all the books... MIDDLE FINGER!!! I love Feynman.

[jojoinhere]

@jvp367 you blame the priest instead of the conquistador?

[ArcaneVoice]

THIS MAN.

[WoodstockHippie1969]

Trajedya84 Rocks !!!

[LucyPelt]

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