The Story of 1 (One) - Terry Jones - BBC

The Story of 1 (One) - Terry Jones - BBC

The story of the number one is the story of Western civilization. Terry Jones (of Monty Python's Flying Circus) goes on a humor-filled journey to recount the amazing tale behind the world's simplest number. Using computer graphics, "One" is brought to life, in all his various guises. One's story reveals how celebrated civilizations in history were achieved, where our modern numbers came from and how the invention of zero changed the world forever; and saved us from having to use Roman numerals today.

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[AtheistsAreSkeptics]

This one really makes me LOOOL 1:59

[AfroZero]

I give this video 101 stars.

[rakeshhpr]

Interesting that the contribution from Indians haven't been mentioned. Not just pythagoras theorem but some of the most fundamentals to the advanced levels of of Mathematics are already presented in the Vedic scriptures. Though being an Indian, I am not in favor of any part of the world when it comes to advancements in Science and Technology but I believe that facts must be genuine and authentic when propagated. Islam and Hindu Vedas are the two major contributors of Mathematics and Astronomy.

[rakeshhpr]

@sbergman27: you are an Idiot. nuff said.

[sbergman27]

@rakesh20023 "u strive hard to bring into reality of what u imagine."

You, who got bored with reality & decided to take up religion simply because you felt like it, are hardly in a good position to argue that point. (Yes, I'm aware of the attempts by Hunduism & Buddhism to pass themselves off as "non-religions".) If you want to believe fairy tales based upon no evidence, I'm not going to waste further time trying to save you from yourself. There's no help for self-inflicted irrationality.

[rakesh20023]

...evidences. You do the homework if you are interested. I have passed through that phase. I am curious about great minds, not great people. I am curious about Higgs field, not Higgs. i can give you one hint though: we pick up tones and features from our parent but we have more features of nature being the ultimate truth since we're made of elementary particles. all we need to do is recognize ourself, not the way we appear in the mirror.

[rakesh20023]

...think of science to be enduring and philosophy to be old fashioned? how do you know that Qur'an/Bible followers were/are reprehensible and vedanti's behaved well? I am not discussing about any holy books and please don't mistake vedas with Qur'an/bible. Hinduism is not a religion at all, it is attributed to the lifestyles of oldest of organized civilizations. India is a poor nation but is rich in heritage which westerners won't/can't understand. I can't spoon feed you with more..

[rakesh20023]

so that they could be recited and remembered. There is proof of rig veda being 5000+ years old, I am not an attorney and I let you do the homework. sciene is very new, it is a coalescence of years of observations and understandings. Like I said, I am not in favor of anything as of now because science has been disproving it's own findings. You are mistaking Truth with technology, theology with rationalism. How was evolution formed in the first place, before you could...

[rakesh20023]

you must first understand that your inclination towards something you feel is logically sane is your first mistake. There have been many accidental inventions and scientists have been reverse engineering their luck into publishable-Applicable theses. don't underestimate philosophy like I did few years back. Philosophy is crude, amorphous and perplex. Science is just the refined, structured and simplified form of Philosophy. Vedanti's cyphered ordinary observations into poetic verses

[rakesh20023]

@sbergman27: u strive hard to bring into reality of what u imagine. Nothing is perfect when being conceptualized for the first time: a sculptor doesn't know how his sculpture shall turn out to be before/while sculpting. but wht instigated the sculptor to become a sculptor? Philosophy and science/chicken and egg r the same: u are too hasty if u feel u're being conclusive. I first suggest u to stop being self-aggrandizing because i too was like u few years back and it didn't help me.

[sbergman27]

@rakesh20023 Addendum: Sometimes I feel like I spend half of my time arguing with people who say that science is wrong but their holy book is right, and the other half addressing people who say that science is right but their holy book got there first, based upon interpretations of stanzas which make Nostradamus seem like Sally, Dick, & Jane by comparison. The Qu'ran cheerleaders are particularly egregious violators. But the bible-thumpers aren't far behind. The Veda folks seem better behaved.

[sbergman27]

@rakesh20023 After thousands of yrs of false starts & unreliable methods, we now have 2 powerful tools for discovering truth: The Scientific Method & Mathematics; I defend them fiercely. Democritus was on the right track, qualitatively, with "atoms". But without a reliable method, it was mere philosophy. Aristotle's awful philosophy & enduring prestige set progress back over 1000yrs. Quantitative models & experimental falsification are of far greater value than even the best qualitative guesses.