Sep
2
So many rhetorical questions in this video that it gets hard to watch, but skip ahead to the middle, where Art Benjamin starts doing his human calculator tricks (and beating people on calculators). The question is: is he a genius? He answers, honestly, no. He’s a computer, in the ancient sense.
He’s a total kick to watch. At the same time, this is exactly the kind of math that isn’t important, from a mathematical perspective. It’s the kind we let the computers do.
