Mathematicians: Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal 1623-1662
Famous mathematician, scientist, inventor, theologian, and author. Together with Fermat, started modern probabilty theory, a whole new branch of mathematics.

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[TyYann]

Answering the same question, I would have picked Fermat. For a British one, maybe Alan Turing...

[singingbanana]

I might save Fermat for another time. I can film it here in the room where Andrew Wiles announced his proof for the last theorem. That would be cool.

[stretch4859]

When you were talking about the French mathematician with the letter G were you talking about Evariste Galois, couldn't quite make that out, most of them I can,that was at 1:15 . Please respond as I would like to look him up as well. Thanks.

[katiekawaii]

So these assholes are the reason I had to take statistics in college. Thanks a lot, Pascal!

[therealgrampalemon]

my favourite is TyYann

[TheStarProductions1]

I needed to understand their theory on probability for my Stats class and this helped. Thank you very much.

[kristinparkermusic]

I respect and admire your passion and knowledge. It's refreshing to hear from someone so young *and* so articulate!

[kkallebb]

I love this guy. I wish I could get as excited about math as he is.

[donheller1]

@TheRandomSkillz

Excuse me for my bad English...

I will grab the TTT example.

As it's 50/50 for each step, the fact that you just need 3 steps for TTT, instead of 4 to get a result, makes this path twice as possible as the 4 step paths.

So HH counts as 4, HTH & THH as 2x2 and finally HTTH, THTH & TTHH as 3x1 =11

Versus  TTT as 2 and THTT, TTHT & HTTT as 3x1 = 5,

11 vs 5.

[TheRandomSkillz]

But this makes little sense @ 5:01

Only 2 Heads needed to win on one side, 3 tails on the other.

So the Tails side could only win by HTTT, TTT, THTT, TTHT.  (Adding another t or h at the end of TTT is pointless, the game is over)

Heads could win by HH, HTH, THH, HTTH, TTHH,

So it is 4 to T, and 5 to H

55% to 45%

So then 3333 to H, and 2667 to T.

I'm probably wrong, so if you could tell me how that be awesome.

[Barraki148]

I got VERY confused right before you mentioned pascals triangle lol

[thepianoaddict]

you look like pascal :P just like the guy from brainiac and topgear looks like newton :P