Numberphile started out making videos for fun, became fairly popular, then went around looking for grant money to be able to continue making them and found some in MSRI. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
It appears that MSRI is listed as one of the "sponsors" of the website, and apparently that means the website can use the MSRI logo, but the website claims that it is independent of MSRI.
The website looks very nice -- at first glance. But I don't think MSRI would intentionally support a video that claims 1+2+3+ . . . = -1/12, since the research institute seems mainly interested in mathematical truth.
--Dan
On Feb 28, 2014, at 1:33 PM, rcs@xmission.com wrote:
It looks like MSRI is getting into serious outreach. Bob Baillie passed along the url http://www.numberphile.com I haven't looked at the insides yet, but the front page looks tasty.
Rich
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