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Video a still from Philip Morrison's 1968 Christmas Lectures "Gulliver's Travels" where Morrison is mid-sentence and looking at the camera

CHRISTMAS LECTURES Maths Physics

Gulliver's travels – The world of captain Gulliver (1968)

In his first CHRISTMAS LECTURE from 1968, Philip Morrison looks at the arithmetic of large and small numbers, the geometry of

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