Extraordinary Conics: The Most Difficult Math Problem I Ever Solved

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  • Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
  • This is a real math problem I faced, and the process I went through to solve it. Despite being a difficult problem, I tried to focus on the beautiful visuals and interesting discoveries I made about conic sections that I doubt anyone knows about. While this isn't my typical style of video, there was a ton of coding that went into this (all open source) and an interactive app of this entire video. Check them out below!
    Source Code: github.com/HackerPoet/Conics
    Download Windows (64-bit): github.com/HackerPoet/Conics/...
    Chapters:
    0:00 Introduction
    0:23 5 Elements
    3:47 Duality
    5:49 Skew Axes
    7:39 My Hardest Problem (Part 1)
    10:14 My Hardest Problem (Part 2)
    13:59 My Hardest Problem (Part 3)
    In Homage To:
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    Mathologer: / @mathologer
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Комментарии • 1,2 тыс.

  • @feynman6756
    @feynman6756 4 года назад +3821

    "I'm not 3b1b"
    He said it to hide the truth.

    • @prinssdgunofficial2400
      @prinssdgunofficial2400 4 года назад +9

      Fhtt

    • @shoam2103
      @shoam2103 4 года назад +70

      3b1b is how I found this video

    • @asailijhijr
      @asailijhijr 4 года назад +31

      He's secretly TL;DR.

    • @Chiken1
      @Chiken1 4 года назад +86

      2b2t

    • @jockbw
      @jockbw 4 года назад +18

      but when their powers combine they art captain planet

  • @Yogfan800
    @Yogfan800 4 года назад +5090

    i didn't understand like 90% of this video but yeah shapes are cool.

    • @CodeParade
      @CodeParade  4 года назад +988

      Thank you! I know the actual material is dense, but I was hoping the visuals still make it fun and interesting to watch.

    • @conlangnovids4974
      @conlangnovids4974 4 года назад +147

      @@CodeParade I loved this I didn't understand 10% of it but It was cool
      I Love math and coding so this was really good

    • @firSound
      @firSound 4 года назад +142

      Watching advanced material well beyond one's current knowledge and comprehension of a subject, strengthens diffuse mode learning. So even if you don't know it, you're actually smarter.

    • @EtanMarlin
      @EtanMarlin 4 года назад +9

      I agree 😂

    • @user-kx8pu6ys5i
      @user-kx8pu6ys5i 4 года назад +26

      @@firSound yes my brain is better now

  • @Jellylamps
    @Jellylamps 4 года назад +774

    My favorite thing in math is “oh you can just do this simple and seemingly unrelated thing to figure out the problem and it always works”

    • @chriskrofchak
      @chriskrofchak 4 года назад +53

      ALL OF MY PROOFS CLASS...

    • @ferociousfeind8538
      @ferociousfeind8538 4 года назад +62

      It's like shooting a duck to get winter to come and go. Like, what? What?? But it works, and some guy 500 years ago proved it works with like... wait, how did he know any of that? Q... quantum theory and general relativity? What does THAT have to do with a DUCK and WINTER?
      Ahem. Math might not be for me lmao

    • @Ssacred_
      @Ssacred_ 4 года назад +13

      @@ferociousfeind8538 you ever thinked how fucking blown mind is the 2 grade ecuation, just that simple thing, like how the fuck did they figure out, srry for my english eksdi

    • @RagbagMcShag
      @RagbagMcShag 4 года назад +7

      @@Ssacred_ A part of my brain melted inmidst of this comment chain

    • @Ssacred_
      @Ssacred_ 4 года назад +2

      @@RagbagMcShag xdd

  • @abigailmcdowell4248
    @abigailmcdowell4248 4 года назад +1707

    I now really REALLY want 3b1b to prove all the assumptions in this video 😅

    • @conlangnovids4974
      @conlangnovids4974 4 года назад +99

      why not we all ask 3blue1brown (:

    • @adammoussa7295
      @adammoussa7295 4 года назад +43

      yeah good idea, let's start bombarding his videos comment section!!

    • @ck88777
      @ck88777 4 года назад +58

      3b1b kinda just demonstrates other people's proofs and theorems idk if hes capable of proving all this in a timely manner

    • @abigailmcdowell4248
      @abigailmcdowell4248 4 года назад +31

      @@ck88777 doesn't need to be timely, and I think it'll be an interesting enough exercise for him to want to show

    • @shadiester
      @shadiester 4 года назад +73

      Another commenter, Rishabh Dhiman, included this relevant information which I thought might be of interest:
      """I was really delighted to see a relatively large youtuber talk about point-line duality and projective geometry.
      If you want a proof of these properties and a lot of other cool properties I would highly recommend AV Akopyan's book Geometry of Conics. [1]
      Also, the line formed by the three collinear midpoints is called the Newton-Gauss line. [2]
      The proof for the case of the tangent ellipse being a circle is called Newton's Theorem. [3]
      The fact that the centres are collinear comes from a more general fact about the locus of pole of a fixed line with respect to the the inconics of a given quadrilateral being collinear. This is Theorem 3.16 on page 88 of Geometry of Conics.
      When the fixed line is moved to infinity, we get centre of ellipses and hyperbolas.
      [1] AV Akopyan's Geometry of Conics geometry.ru/books/conic_e.pdf you can also buy a physical copy on Amazon
      [2] Newton - Gauss Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%E2%80%93Gauss_line
      [3] Newton's Theorem - www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Geometry/NewtonTheorem.shtml
      """

  • @sireevictineerivero342
    @sireevictineerivero342 4 года назад +970

    "There is a conic that passes through any 5 points."
    Yeah.
    "Parabolas are halfway between an ellipse and a hyperbola."
    Mhmm...
    "The equation can be simplified by this matrix."
    Uh...Right. Sure.
    "AcosTheta + B....."
    ...I guess?
    "Frobenius product."
    Now you're just making up words.

    • @scptime1188
      @scptime1188 4 года назад +57

      I get the conic stuff and tangents and all that, but everything in the written proof section about the matricies and stuff, i was completely lost.

    • @TheMajorpickle01
      @TheMajorpickle01 3 года назад +21

      @@arnehurnik If you don't understand matrices, it's an entire topic in a physics undergrad. Not to discourage you from looking it up but don't be mistaken into thinking it's a minor undertaking. If you are used to linear math non linear math is a headache

    • @Temeliak
      @Temeliak 3 года назад +11

      @@arnehurnik 3blue1brown made a quite nice and relatively easy to follow series on linear algebra, a good way I think to wrap your head around matrices

    • @gamma-bv6ty
      @gamma-bv6ty 3 года назад +6

      @@TheMajorpickle01 Matrices are part of linear algebra so I don't really see what's nonlinear about them. Also, the actual theory of matrices would be covered more in a math undergrad than a physics undergrad.

    • @TurkishLoserInc
      @TurkishLoserInc 3 года назад +6

      @@gamma-bv6ty Any reputable Physics, math, and comp sci dept is going to be sticking you into a sophomore-junior level linear algebra class that will essentially focus on matrices. All engineers were also required to take it at my school, as any FEA(finite element analysis) is likely going to be done with either calculus or simpler linear algebra.

  • @dumbeh
    @dumbeh 4 года назад +2145

    me having no idea what any of this means.
    “ah yes of course... the... matrix.”

    • @nixel1324
      @nixel1324 4 года назад +115

      Don't forget to... invert it?

    • @zadejoh
      @zadejoh 4 года назад +74

      @@nixel1324 in case you're serious, a matrix is basically a grid of numbers. Inverting a matrix is the equivalent of finding the reciprocal of a number (let's say 8 and 1/8). Multiplying 8 and 1/8 gives 1; for matrices A multiplied by its inverse A^-1 gives back the identity matrix which is the matrix equivalent of the number 1. Of course finding the inverse of a matrix is not as easy as the reciprocal of a number at times, but this is the gist of it.

    • @MrTtawesome
      @MrTtawesome 4 года назад +26

      @@miso-ge1gz When you switch the numerator and the denominator. Say you have 5/2, the reciprocal is 2/5. Or 3, which can be written as 3/1, it's reciprocal is just 1/3. Multiply a number by its reciprocal and you always get 1, which is pretty cool

    • @vikaskalsariya9425
      @vikaskalsariya9425 4 года назад +9

      @@miso-ge1gz You haven't seen the Neutron style.

    • @michalgolonka832
      @michalgolonka832 4 года назад +11

      Same. F*ing same. Matrixes, tangents, sinh, cosinh. I vaguely understand sin and cosin

  • @johnerickson8160
    @johnerickson8160 4 года назад +291

    A mathmatician: Aw yes a very satisfying math problem
    Me: Whoa look at the cool lines on the screen

  • @Nasrul260
    @Nasrul260 4 года назад +886

    Math with text: **boring**
    Math visually: *_"let's get funky!"_*

    • @EsperantistoVolulo
      @EsperantistoVolulo 3 года назад +7

      A random taxicab with the number 1729: Am I a joke to you?

    • @olivervan7265
      @olivervan7265 3 года назад

      @@EsperantistoVolulo what

    • @olivervan7265
      @olivervan7265 3 года назад +1

      I won’t like you sense I know your secret

  • @Vit-Pokorny
    @Vit-Pokorny 3 года назад +94

    programmers be like: "Just knowing it works was good enough for me"

    • @dreckneck
      @dreckneck 3 года назад +8

      This makes a mathematician cry 😂😭

  • @skj983
    @skj983 3 года назад +37

    Kids today are lucky to have these kinds of visualizations for geometry. This type of stuff works wonders for the young mind in developing a very valuable sense of intuition for mathematics. This is really great work. Keep it up!

  • @John-hz8xy
    @John-hz8xy 3 года назад +116

    He makes Desmos look like a children's toy.

  • @Otori6386
    @Otori6386 3 года назад +70

    I know enough to know I don't know enough to fully appreciate this
    hehe pretty lines and shapes

  • @kebman
    @kebman 4 года назад +28

    I think you'll _love_ POV-Ray. It's an old raytracer. You have to program the inputs. Modellers exist for it, but the true joy of using this program is wading through the pleasurably well-made documentation, and the complicated yet fully logical mathematical models used to trace the forms. You can make some very complex forms with it, including quartic objects, and objects modelled with various forms of "noise" algorithms, and of course fractals. I don't know any other raytracer that is so comprehensive, and yet logically set up. It might be old, but it still has it's uses.

  • @jakehate
    @jakehate 4 года назад +248

    "you might have seen a comic section represented like this before"
    Me: hmmmm yes go on

  • @DeveloperDesmond
    @DeveloperDesmond 4 года назад +216

    CodeParade! This video is amazing!
    Here's my criticism:
    - When you have variables on screen, like A, B, or R1, it's really hard to keep track of *what* the variable represents. Salman Khan does a really good job in his videos of alleviating this problem in two ways: 1.) He keeps the diagram on screen when doing algebra. 2.) He color codes the variables to the diagram. If x represents a distance, he'll draw the distance in blue, and then use the same color blue whenever he writes x. If you pause your video at 10:34 or 10:25, you'll notice a block of text and a diagram, but no way for the viewer to quickly relate the diagram to the text.
    - You introduced the problem statement at 8:00, which is probably too late. I also don't think you explained the *why* well enough for this problem. 3Blue1Brown's video, "This problem seems hard, then it doesn't, but it really is
    ," is an example of Grant Sanderson's effort to tell an engaging narrative, even when the problem being solved isn't important.

    • @phileiv
      @phileiv 3 года назад +7

      That's really interesting. I came back to this video after a couple of days because i found it a bit confusing, and i had paused at exactly 10:34.

  • @AgentMidnight
    @AgentMidnight 4 года назад +14

    I'm an absolute sucker for clean, fluid math visuals. Instant subscription.

  • @ItsLogic
    @ItsLogic 4 года назад +414

    Oh my god, He's back.

  • @lock_ray
    @lock_ray 3 года назад +26

    After taking a more advanced linear algebra course I came back to this video and actually understood it this time! Thanks for the motivation CodeParade!

  • @yinq5384
    @yinq5384 4 года назад +15

    6:55
    We consider the standard ellipse (x/a)^2 + (y/b)^2 = 1 as an example. (General cases are same after one rotation and translation.)
    All points on the ellipse have the parametric form P(a cos(s), b sin(s)).
    The obvious choice of vectors A and B are A = (a,0) and B = (b,0).
    In general, say we know one skew vector A = (a cos(t), b sin(t)), and we try to find out another vector B so that
    A sin(theta) + B cos(theta) + C representing the same ellipse. (C = the zero vector here since we assumed the center is the origin.)
    Assume B = (a cos(s), b sin(s))
    A sin(theta) + B cos(theta) = (a cos(t) sin(theta) + a cos(s) sin(theta), b sin(t) sin(theta) + b sin(s) sin(theta))
    For any angle theta, the above point is on the ellipse (x/a)^2 + (y/b)^2 = 1.
    Thus (cos(t) sin(theta) + cos(s) sin(theta))^2 + (sin(t) sin(theta) + sin(s) sin(theta))^2 = 1.
    Simplify and we get 0 = [cos(t) cos(s) + sin(t) sin(s)] sin(theta) cos(theta).
    Thus 0 = cos(t) cos(s) + sin(t) sin(s) = cos(s-t).
    We can choose s = t + pi/2.
    That is,
    B = (a cos(t+pi/2), b sin(t+pi/2)) = (-a sin(t), b cos(t))
    To summarize, "Skew vectors" ARE still "Perpendicular" in the parametric sense.
    7:10
    Area:
    |A x B| = | (a cos(t), b sin(t)) x (-a sin(t), b cos(t)) | = a cos(t) b cos(t) - b sin(t) (-a sin(t)) = ab
    Thus pi |A x B| = pi ab = Area
    C^2 Invariant:
    |A|^2 + |B|^2 = (a cos(t))^2 + (b sin(t))^2 + (-a sin(t))^2 + (b cos(t))^2 = a^2 + b^2
    Inside Test:
    Using the parametric form again, say P - C = P = k(a cos(s), b sin(s)).
    Point P is inside the ellipse if and only if |k| < 1.
    |(P - C) x A| = kab (cos(s) sin(t) - sin(s) cos(t)) = kab |sin(s-t)|
    |(P - C) x B| = kab (cos(s) cos(t) + sin(s) sin(t)) = kab |cos(s-t)|
    |A x B| = ab as we already calculated.
    Then
    |(P - C) x A|^2 + |(P - C) x B|^2 = (kab)^2 and |A x B|^2 = (ab)^2
    Then Inside test formula is equivalent to k^2 < 1.
    Tangent Test:
    Necessity:
    Suppose there is a tangent line. P is any point on the line and R is the direction vector of the line.
    Denote the tangent point by T. Then (P-T) // R. Thus R x (P - C) = R x (T - C).
    Actually, we can use similar parametric form as above, say R = k(a cos(s), b sin(s)) and T - C = T = (a cos(t), b sin(t))
    Then |R x A|^2 + |R x B|^2 = (kab)^2 as before,
    and |R x (T - C)|^2 = (kab)^2 |sin(s-t)|^2.
    The formula is equivalent to |sin(s-t)| = 1, i.e. the different between t and s should be pi/2.
    And the tangent line passing through T(a cos(t), b sin(t)) is indeed with the direction vector (a cos(t+pi/2), b sin(t+pi/2)) = (-a sin(t), b cos(t)).
    Sufficiency:
    For any line L, we can always find a tangent line TL parallel to L. Thus the two lines have the same direction vector R but different points P_1 and P_2.
    For TL, we know |R x A|^2 + |R x B|^2 = |R x (P_1 - C)|^2.
    If L satisfy the tangent test, then
    |R x A|^2 + |R x B|^2 = |R x (P_2 - C)|^2.
    Thus |R x (P_1 - C)|^2 = |R x (P_2 - C)|^2,
    |R x (P_1 - C)| = |R x (P_2 - C)|
    R x (P_1 - C) = R x (P_2 - C) (there are exactly two tangent lines out there, that's why there are two cross products with opposite directions, we can choose the one with the same direction)
    R x (P_1 - P_2) = 0
    i.e. (P_1 - P_2) // R, meaning P_1 and P_2 are on the same line. That is, L is actually the same as TL.

  • @columbus8myhw
    @columbus8myhw 4 года назад +90

    15:30: "And negative areas are hyperbolas." Correction: this is area squared, so negative 'area squared', or imaginary areas, are hyperbolas.

    • @CodeParade
      @CodeParade  4 года назад +63

      You're correct. I was trying to say 'the areas of the curve below the x axis' but it was confusing because I'm also talking about literal area.

    • @Keldor314
      @Keldor314 4 года назад +5

      This might be an interesting area for further investigation. Clearly any intuitive "area" for a hyperbola is infinite since it's an unbounded shape, but here we have a solution that assigns such an area to an imaginary number. So what's the deeper meaning here?
      Also, what about the duality between positive and negative area? Negative area is one of the two solutions to a square root, but is there a geometric meaning to negative area that's distinct from positive area? Maybe you could introduce some idea of handedness depending on whether the elipse goes around its center in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction according to the parameter theta? This makes sense in the context of a mirror image perhaps.
      Finally, is there some way to give meaning to area as a generalized complex number?
      What about instead of looking at a plane (being the cartesian product of two real lines), we look at a "hyperplane" (the cartesian product of two complex planes) instead? If we take the original problem to be looking at the planer cross section through real directions, is there meaning in looking at a complex area as a solution to where the complex conic section becomes an elipse in a different cross section?
      Could all this be related ultimately to the same structure that gives rise to the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra?

    • @hybmnzz2658
      @hybmnzz2658 3 года назад +4

      @@Keldor314 it is common to see diverging things have a connection to imaginary numbers.

    • @samuelthecamel
      @samuelthecamel 3 года назад +1

      @@Keldor314 In abstract math, divergent sequences often "converge" to some negative or imaginary number. For example, 1+2+3+4... = -1/12. Although this isn't really an iterated sequence, it may be related in some way.

    • @hiiistrex2838
      @hiiistrex2838 3 года назад +1

      @@samuelthecamel how is 1+2+3+4... Supposed to equal -1/12 tho
      I feel like I've seen it before but it makes zero sense
      Or it makes -1/12 sense idk

  • @orbitalteapot21
    @orbitalteapot21 4 года назад +45

    9:00
    The mid points lie on a line is called "Gauss line of a complete quadrilateral". Whose existence in proved in the Gauss Bodenmiller Theorem

    • @Dekross
      @Dekross 4 года назад

      I only know gauss for the xyz problems :v

    • @Icenri
      @Icenri 4 года назад +2

      Thanks! I came back to this video looking for this comment. I studied projective geometry but never got to that theorem and in the video it seems so obvious that it has to be connected to the complete quadrilateral and the harmonic conjugate somehow.

  • @StNick119
    @StNick119 3 года назад +16

    I'd love to see more "hardcore maths" videos like this.

  • @eofirdavid
    @eofirdavid 4 года назад +75

    I think that many of the phenomena that you mentioned follow from the fact that an ellipse is simply the image of a circle under a linear transformation (multiplication by a matrix where you columns are your vectors A and B). I think that your cross product which measures the area is (up to a constant) the determinant of the matrix. When you rotate the vectors, you multiply by a rotation matrix, and since it has determinant 1, and det(XY)=det(X)det(Y), then you know that it should not change the determinant, so the new crossed product should still compute the same area.
    For the |A|^2+|B|^2, this computes the Frobenius norm of a matrix. Unlike the determinant, this norm in general is only submultiplicative, but luckily for us it is multiplicative when you multiply by rotation matrices.

    • @pianojay5146
      @pianojay5146 4 года назад +5

      Ofir David cool idea

    • @uganasilverhand
      @uganasilverhand 4 года назад +2

      I've considered versions of the ellipse formula since high school such as: (x-a)^2/sin^2(theta)+(y-b)^2/cos^2(theta)=r^2 -- no need to calculate eccentricity, it's actually built in now and describes any simple 1 or 2 focii solution as a projection from a spheroid or cone as theta is similarly a projection of the angle from the plane or the "light" source.

    • @lj8324
      @lj8324 3 года назад

      Ah yes..

    • @thegamehouse4245
      @thegamehouse4245 3 года назад +1

      I totally understand what you mean.

  • @johan7999
    @johan7999 4 года назад +2

    You've fed the curiosity within me. I'm enjoying your source code, your math and you're fascination for these mathematical discoveries!
    You sound like a child when he first are a candy, absolutely wonderful!

  • @kikivoorburg
    @kikivoorburg 4 года назад +16

    Wow this is amazing. Really demonstrates the crazy interconnected nature of mathematics!

  • @TuddYT
    @TuddYT 4 года назад +3

    I loved this! Please keep making this kind of high quality hardcore math + code content :)

  • @R23874
    @R23874 4 года назад +2

    Mind is definitely blown. Stumbled upon your channel today and I'm so glad I did, all of your content is incredible. Will be eagerly watching your github as well.

  • @Dezomm
    @Dezomm 4 года назад +1

    I love this channel so much. Gets me excited about all the complex stuff out there I don't know about yet. Really great stuff dude.

  • @7s1gma
    @7s1gma 2 года назад +5

    Mind blown confirmed. More hardcore math videos please.

  • @haph2087
    @haph2087 4 года назад +4

    Wow. This was lovely. I am not at the point in math to understand all of this, but I understood most of it and learned a lot. Those visuals are amazing too.

  • @XIIJaguar
    @XIIJaguar 4 года назад +2

    This was great! I enjoyed every second of it. You spent the right amount of time on every point to have me intrigued.

  • @johanrojassoderman5590
    @johanrojassoderman5590 4 года назад +1

    Really interesting and thoroughly explained. I'm nowhere close to the mathematical prerequisites but still managed to grasp it thanks to the theoretical and visual explanations. Would definitely not have anything against seeing more hardcore math videos, but i think most of your videos are extremely interesting. Definitely one of the more unique math/coding channels on youtube, and far too underappreciated if you ask me. Keep up the good work!

  • @modus_ponens
    @modus_ponens 4 года назад +9

    Whoah what animations and effects! On top of that using c++.
    Also interesting findings indeed. Enjoyed the math content, particularly the matrix derivation, as it showed quite some many tricks.

  • @ddiva1973
    @ddiva1973 4 года назад +30

    Hard core math is good for the brain, keep going!

  • @lenardvandermaas6893
    @lenardvandermaas6893 2 года назад +1

    I love that you made this video! I'm a big fan of implementing math into code and making cool stuff like this (or actually using it in a game or something). I'd love to see more videos like this!

  • @MusicEngineeer
    @MusicEngineeer 4 года назад +1

    it is so satisfying, being faced with a challenging math problem, sitting down for many hours or even days (or more), researching, thinking, finally arriving at a solution, implementing it, testing it - and seeing it WORK ...and then harnessing the so found solution to do all the cool stuff that one wanted to do with it! thanks for the video and the code. should i ever be facing a similar problem, i now know, where to look. yes - i would definitely like to see more videos of this sort.

  • @Sciencedoneright
    @Sciencedoneright 3 года назад +3

    11:17 Even though honestly, I didn't understand the concept, that simplification was *BEAUTIFUL!*

  • @martinbrink6711
    @martinbrink6711 3 года назад +6

    RUclips desperately needs more hardcore math videos! I'll be looking forward to your next masterpiece!

  • @hyperspaceadventures1416
    @hyperspaceadventures1416 4 года назад +2

    I loved this!
    Please make more hardcore math videos! RUclips really needs more beautifully visualized math stuff.

  • @larrywestenberg7839
    @larrywestenberg7839 4 года назад +1

    This was awesome! I don't "do" this sort of math - but you made it completely "followable" for me. What a cool trip that was!! The animations brought the equations to life very well. Bravo, buddy!!

  • @DeGandalf
    @DeGandalf 4 года назад +69

    I have NO idea about this math stuff, but with the nice visuals it was still entertaining; I enjoyed it.

    • @younlok1081
      @younlok1081 4 года назад +1

      yes satisfying

    • @fish8622
      @fish8622 4 года назад +1

      I understood half of it. So I knew what he was talking about, what he was trying to do, and what he did. I have entirely no clue as to how he did it.

    • @dexstevens5993
      @dexstevens5993 4 года назад

      Fish same

  • @Magnogen
    @Magnogen 4 года назад +5

    I'm intrigued to see a collaboration between 3b1b and cp. It would make a cool watch.

  • @admiralhyperspace0015
    @admiralhyperspace0015 4 года назад +1

    Dude, this is awesome. I can't tell you how much ny mind is blown even though I only know about conic sections and don't know the calculations that you did. I want more. I just subscribed for this. I envy that I have don't have the same amount of math and coding knowledge as you.

  • @DrConrad2122
    @DrConrad2122 4 года назад +1

    I love this style of video. It really shows just how beautiful math can be. Keep it up!

  • @NovaWarrior77
    @NovaWarrior77 4 года назад +6

    16:15 yes, more like this if you can please! This was awesome! I'm sure that if you're consistent, you will blow up!

  • @ChrisDjangoConcerts
    @ChrisDjangoConcerts 4 года назад +3

    You should do more math videos! These are really awesome !

  • @cboniefbr
    @cboniefbr 4 года назад

    I love your "usual" contente, but this video was amazing. Looking foward for more of the kind.

  • @veztron
    @veztron 4 года назад +1

    this is absolutely fantastic. The visualization are beautiful and everything is so clear

  • @atimholt
    @atimholt 4 года назад +7

    A lot of what you’ve shown is *exactly* the math I need for my own project. Thank you!

  • @Tehom1
    @Tehom1 4 года назад +11

    Definitely more hardcore math videos if they're going to be this good.

  • @AristAristA
    @AristAristA 4 года назад +1

    having a look into your mind and your experimental math approach was awesome. Very cool video !

  • @stefanamg63
    @stefanamg63 4 года назад +1

    This was stupendously mind-blowing.
    I wish you had made this video 2 years ago when I was writing code which solved a 'tangents between 2 ellipses' problem. I ended up brute-forcing it after struggling for almost a year.

  • @Galbex21
    @Galbex21 3 года назад +3

    I dont understand almost anythung but its so beautifully represented and edited that its still a pleasure to watch.

  • @adamschultz7127
    @adamschultz7127 2 года назад +4

    "iT tUrNs OuT yOu JuSt InVeRt ThE mAtRiX" like that means anything in the world to anyone but Lawrence fishburn

    • @debblez
      @debblez 2 года назад +2

      correction: anyone who passed 10th grade

  • @insightfool
    @insightfool 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for this explanation with such a good visualization. I normally gloss over when watching math videos, but this one was really engaging.

  • @MrJammer328
    @MrJammer328 4 года назад +1

    This is the first video I’ve see of your channel and wow that was great. Such a great application of linear algebra in geometry

  • @sofia.eris.bauhaus
    @sofia.eris.bauhaus 4 года назад +3

    okay, i understood roughly half of the non-hardcore part an none of the hardcore bit. still learned come cool things in a short time. thanks, will rewatch! B)

  • @chaimlukasmaier335
    @chaimlukasmaier335 4 года назад +4

    I heard a really good lecture series on harmonised coordinate systems this semester...
    So there was not that much new stuff, but you animated it really well.
    For all who speak German, i can recommend "Geometriekalküle" by Jürgen Richter-Gebert

  • @AngrySkyBandit
    @AngrySkyBandit 3 года назад +1

    I have been curious about this very question for years. Never took the time to figure it out, and I stumble upon this video on yet another youtube bender. Many thanks for the ride!

  • @death1weller
    @death1weller 2 года назад

    this is so relaxing to watch. it's like listening to music or a relaxed podcast on another language. I love listening to this while working, so my mind doesn't get distracted by it but can't drift off to unrelated things since it keeps my interest on trying to understand it ksksk

  • @positivefingers1321
    @positivefingers1321 4 года назад +43

    Yay code parade!

  • @joaogabrielneto697
    @joaogabrielneto697 4 года назад +13

    I'm a lawyer, why am i seeing this and why its so interesting?

    • @maxwellsequation4887
      @maxwellsequation4887 3 года назад

      Too bad for you
      Now you are just a lawyer
      Always remember Fermat, one of the greatest mathematicians ever was a lawyer

  • @desidudes78
    @desidudes78 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for the time you spent to make this beautiful video. I enjoyed it

  • @shoveler1238
    @shoveler1238 Год назад

    Loved this video! Well above my understanding, but everything was really well explained and the visualizations were a great addition.

  • @mistycremo9301
    @mistycremo9301 4 года назад +5

    I don’t know any linear algebra, but this definitely seems like a cool problem!

  • @caps_lock
    @caps_lock 4 года назад +25

    5:54 BRUH

  • @Rotem_S
    @Rotem_S 4 года назад

    This is great! In the past a few mathematicians tried to show me the wonders of projective geometry and I wasn't that thrilled, but seeing some more complex uses without all the annoying rigor is much more interesting (also your plots are a bit better than the whiteboard we had)

  • @DavidScherfgen
    @DavidScherfgen 4 года назад +2

    Great video. Coincidentally, it helped me understand a paper about fitting ellipses to images using gradients at the pixels as tangents. It makes use of the dual conic. The paper was so complicated to understand, but when I saw your video I instantly got it. Great work!

  • @yuryeuceda8590
    @yuryeuceda8590 3 года назад +3

    The way it changes from parable to hyperbola is like when a star converts to a black hole. Interesting

  • @Francis-ce1qb
    @Francis-ce1qb 3 года назад +3

    I have no idea what I’m watching but i still find it interesting listening to it

  • @Scrum-Master
    @Scrum-Master 4 года назад +2

    Once again, I'm blown away by the quality of your content.

  • @tamimabdullah4638
    @tamimabdullah4638 4 года назад +1

    I would love to see more hard core math videos from you. Really appreciate your work. 👏👏👏

  • @TheIhavenot2
    @TheIhavenot2 4 года назад +6

    Have you heard of Desargues' Theorem? It closely resembles the finding you mentioned at about 9:00 and has an elegant proof in projective geometry. It seems to be the theorem you couldn't find.

    • @NonTwinBrothers
      @NonTwinBrothers Год назад +3

      Seems he had known it, as it's listed during 5:43

  • @joshuadelacour1106
    @joshuadelacour1106 4 года назад +3

    For anyone interested, the "Insights into Mathematics" channel has a few videos covering this and other related concepts. I recommend Cromogeometry.

    • @Icenri
      @Icenri 4 года назад +1

      Good recommendation!!

  • @diegobellani
    @diegobellani 4 года назад +2

    Oh my god this is flippin' awesome! Now I'm even more interested in linear algebra, please do more hardcore math videos!

  • @Concentrum
    @Concentrum 3 года назад +1

    i'm so glad i found your channel, you are amazing man

  • @joygodwinwilliamhenry406
    @joygodwinwilliamhenry406 4 года назад +3

    How do u get these ridiculously awesome insights though you didn't solve the problem completely these sort of intuitions are really useful to make useful hypotheses which simplifies a really complex problem

  • @jucom756
    @jucom756 4 года назад +31

    "I'm not 3 blue 1 brown"
    My brain: the f*** yes you are
    Also my brain: oh wait yeah he isn't
    I really thought i was watching a 3blue 1brown video, this could make for a collab

  • @FF-qo6rm
    @FF-qo6rm 4 года назад +1

    This was great! I would certainly watch if made more videos of this sort!

  • @lakshita7557
    @lakshita7557 4 года назад

    One of the best things I have seen in a while
    Please make more videos of this kind

  • @TheBcoolGuy
    @TheBcoolGuy 4 года назад +8

    Me and my passing grades in post-secondary maths: Ah, yes. _Of course!_

  • @leo.maglanoc
    @leo.maglanoc 4 года назад +4

    more hardcore math videos plsssss

  • @tobuslieven
    @tobuslieven 2 года назад +1

    This is jam packed with mind blowing facts. It just keeps going. Love it.

  • @MinhTran-wn1ri
    @MinhTran-wn1ri 4 года назад +1

    Refreshing video. The music and visuals were captivating. I wish mathematical concepts were taught this way when I was in grade school -- with visuals, animation, perhaps with code that students can play with. Of course back then, 3B1B wasn't a thing.

  • @stirrcrazy2704
    @stirrcrazy2704 3 года назад +17

    Apparently software engineers also fall into the trope of “engineers can’t do proofs.”

    • @Kittoes0124
      @Kittoes0124 3 года назад +3

      Can confirm. One has the ability to implement most algorithms in software; through rigorous experimentation and validation against credible sources. Explaining how any of the maths actually works would be damn near impossible however...
      For example, I wrote all of this: dev.azure.com/byteterrace/CSharp/_git/ByteTerrace.Maths.BitwiseHelpers?path=%2FProject%2FBitwiseHelpers.cs, and yet it still feels like sorcery every time I make a function call! The fact that unit tests pass and pretty results appear on my screen is enough for me.

  • @Menaiya
    @Menaiya 3 года назад +3

    My brain is fried. This reminded me of a lot of math I've forgotten.

  • @atomiccompiler9495
    @atomiccompiler9495 4 года назад +2

    I would love to see more mathematical content on this channel.
    Wonderful video by the way.

  • @flick2040
    @flick2040 4 года назад +1

    The animation and motion in this video is so incredibly pleasing.

  • @Lord_Bon
    @Lord_Bon 3 года назад +3

    I have no idea of whatever this video was about, but I still want to someday understand it all

  • @pranavlimaye
    @pranavlimaye 4 года назад +3

    I should probably come back to this video 10 years later because I'm too young to understand anything but this stuff sounds interesting

  • @WhattheHectogon
    @WhattheHectogon 4 года назад +1

    Please, more! This was truly excellent

  • @tessisaturtle5217
    @tessisaturtle5217 Год назад

    i'm looking forward to coming back to this video in a few years and actually understanding what he's talking about
    geometry is so cool

  • @jafizzle95
    @jafizzle95 4 года назад +4

    "Thanks for watching"
    Ah, yes. I understood that entire sentence.

  • @mypetblackie108
    @mypetblackie108 4 года назад +7

    You know, i came to watch this video taking Calculus AB this semester and felt confident i cpuld understand this.
    Boy was I wrong

    • @Fermion.
      @Fermion. 4 года назад +2

      It's good to be humbled sometimes. It makes you try harder

    • @mmukulkhedekar4752
      @mmukulkhedekar4752 3 года назад +1

      lol the video talks about projective geometry, how is calculus directly related?

    • @athelstanrex
      @athelstanrex 3 года назад +1

      @@mmukulkhedekar4752 because people taking calculus think they are taking the hardest math class and can understand any math

  • @ProjectPhysX
    @ProjectPhysX 4 года назад +1

    Congrats for solving it!
    The hardest math problem I ever solved is the plane - unit cube intersection. You have given the orientation of a plane which intersects a unit cube centered at the origin, you know the volume of the truncated cube, and have to figure out how far off the plane is from the origin.

  • @bobmcbob8044
    @bobmcbob8044 4 года назад +2

    Yes, I would definitely like to see some more hardcore maths stuff. It's very interesting, and great how so many patterns arise in unexpected places.

  • @irisinthedarkworld
    @irisinthedarkworld 4 года назад +5

    "I hope your mind has been blown like mine"
    Me, who is still in pre-calculus: Y-yeah...

    • @hiiistrex2838
      @hiiistrex2838 3 года назад

      This is mostly precalc stuff tho
      I guess maybe not the matrices

  • @OrangeC7
    @OrangeC7 4 года назад +3

    5:40
    Everyone else: *theorem*
    Desargues: Well, you see, I find it more fitting to call it a "converse"

    • @cfgcfh6350
      @cfgcfh6350 4 года назад

      Converse is just the inverse of a theorem..

  • @GermanTopGameTV
    @GermanTopGameTV 3 года назад +1

    This was super satisfying to see. The way the minimum and maximum solutions boil down to a simple minimum on a quadratic equation was just beautiful. This made my headache go away it was so pretty.

  • @akmalbakar5078
    @akmalbakar5078 4 года назад +1

    Loved this! Would love to see more of this type of content