Eating Curves for Breakfast - Numberphile

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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
  • This is a continuation of a video with Isabel Vogt at: • Error Correcting Curve...
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  • @numberphile2
    @numberphile2  Год назад +34

    This is a continuation of a video with Isabel Vogt at: ruclips.net/video/CcZf_7Fb4Us/видео.html

  • @1conk225
    @1conk225 Год назад +179

    I'll never get tired of seeing professional mathematicians getting passionate about their own work! :)

  • @JohnDoe-ti2np
    @JohnDoe-ti2np Год назад +238

    What may not come across, because of Vogt's modesty, is how impressive this result is. A question this simple and natural is something one would expect to have been answered already in the 19th century. (Brill-Noether theory did indeed originate in the 19th century.) And if it wasn't answered in the 19th century, then one would expect that the enormous advances in algebraic geometry in the 20th century would have polished it off. The fact that the problem wasn't solved until the 21st century indicates that the problem is very hard. Many people tried to solve it and produced only partial results, until Larson and Vogt answered it completely.
    Regarding whether the theorem is beautiful in light of the finitely many exceptions, of course it is true that theorems without exceptions are prettier. However, the existence of finitely many exceptions is something that mathematicians have learned to expect, and to live with. Sometimes the finitely many exceptions have their own beauty. (The classification of finite simple groups has finitely many exceptions---the sporadic simple groups---which are very beautiful.) The existence of finitely many exceptions also usually makes the theorem harder to prove, because your argument has to take them into account somehow. Any argument that is too simple can't be correct because it won't explain the exceptions.

  • @shruggzdastr8-facedclown
    @shruggzdastr8-facedclown Год назад +18

    This follow-up video begs for a video to be made on Brill-Noether curves and what differentiates them within the broader family of curves in general

    • @JohnDoe-ti2np
      @JohnDoe-ti2np 11 месяцев назад +2

      Roughly speaking, Brill-Noether curves are "general" curves that can be embedded in the target space. The restriction to Brill-Noether curves excludes "uninteresting" counterexamples.

  • @Shparky
    @Shparky Год назад +34

    Man as an amateur mathematician, and one who briefly pursued a degree in Mathematics, I'm so jealous, but also so very happy to see someone who has made it as a mathematician. Hopefully one day I'll appear in a Numberphile video for something I've found. If nothing else, that'll be a cool bucket list item to cross off.

    • @michaelblankenau6598
      @michaelblankenau6598 Год назад +1

      I'm still trying to be first to comment as my bucket wish list .

  • @Trumben
    @Trumben Год назад +14

    I feel like the title of this video is going to be in a rap song some time in the future

    • @Octa9on
      @Octa9on Год назад +2

      where's MC Hawking when you need him?

  • @Ishanaroya
    @Ishanaroya Год назад +1

    Love her enthusiasm! Really fun videos!

  • @diaz6874
    @diaz6874 Год назад

    Why is her enthusiasm so contagious?

  • @Kaepsele337
    @Kaepsele337 Год назад +8

    "Do you wish it wasn't kind of a little bit ugly" is a great question about a piece of math :D

  • @saidmoglu
    @saidmoglu Год назад +1

    Brady man you called her achievement ugly 😂 she didn't lose her temper though good for her

  • @primenumberbuster404
    @primenumberbuster404 Год назад +1

    Love her energy. :)

  • @jacemandt
    @jacemandt Год назад

    I could tell in her eyes that she knew this theorem might be named after her, but mathematicians are generally a humble bunch, and as expected, she would never think of naming it that herself.

  • @smoorej
    @smoorej Год назад +16

    Is the Noether in Brill-Noether theory Emmy Noether?

    • @ethanbove629
      @ethanbove629 Год назад

      I believe it’s for Max Noether (her father)

    • @CarterPatterson1228
      @CarterPatterson1228 Год назад

      It's actually her father, Max Noether, according to Wikipedia :)

    • @oligarchy78
      @oligarchy78 Год назад

      Her father, Max Noether

    • @Phylogenesis1
      @Phylogenesis1 Год назад

      No. It was actually her father, Max Noether.

    • @RandallHayter
      @RandallHayter Год назад

      Almost. It was her father Max Noether.

  • @DanielA-iy5kl
    @DanielA-iy5kl Год назад +1

    The only name of the all the works of the persons that appeared on this channel that I will remember forever is the "Parker Square"

  • @Sons1717
    @Sons1717 Год назад +1

    Beautiful, Beautiful result!!

  • @FloydMaxwell
    @FloydMaxwell Год назад +1

    A brilliant individual

  • @hesgrant
    @hesgrant Год назад

    You are such a good interviewer

  • @bsome427
    @bsome427 8 месяцев назад

    awesome mathematician

  • @rinaldo.garcia
    @rinaldo.garcia Год назад

    I love how excited she is to explain this all, she has a great vibe. Would enjoy a lot if she was my lecturer.

  • @PatrickLatini
    @PatrickLatini Год назад +1

    Amazing work!

  • @lynk5902
    @lynk5902 Год назад +15

    I think what most mathematicians fail to grasp the profoundness of, is that with the infinitude of numbers, there are so few exceptions and they are of such extremely low values.
    The fact that we can prove these theorems (even with the restrictions) using such low value numbers is absolutely mind boggling.

    • @Uejji
      @Uejji Год назад +8

      You really think most *mathematicians* fail to grasp this?

    • @ianstopher9111
      @ianstopher9111 Год назад +1

      The largest sporadic group has an order less than 10^54. That is absolutely tiny compared to almost all finite numbers. I suspect most mathematicians grasp that.

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 Год назад +2

    What a delightfully strange result!

  • @mehill00
    @mehill00 Год назад +4

    Great video on the general Vogt-Larson theorem.
    Any relation to Robbie Vogt?

  • @benjaminlehmann
    @benjaminlehmann 8 месяцев назад

    This is so cool. So beautiful. Great job!

  • @dlevi67
    @dlevi67 Год назад +1

    This should have been part 1... (and with the duration of part 1)

  • @curtiswfranks
    @curtiswfranks 9 месяцев назад

    Obviously, this is the "Larson-Vogt" or "Vogt-Larson" Interpolation Theorem.

  • @shiina_mahiru_9067
    @shiina_mahiru_9067 Год назад

    Funny enough, I did heard about this theorem from Larson himself in a seminar talk, but I didn't realize she is his collaborator until now.

  • @alexblack6762
    @alexblack6762 Год назад

    great! The CRC16 is rediscovered!!!

  • @SamuelHauptmannvanDam
    @SamuelHauptmannvanDam Год назад

    Great explaination!

  • @zachbills8112
    @zachbills8112 Год назад

    Larson and Vogt and married to each other, which is a fun detail.

  • @kaiserruhsam
    @kaiserruhsam Год назад

    voght-larson interpolation theorem, obviously

    • @_rlb
      @_rlb 11 месяцев назад +1

      But without the typos 😂

  • @IuliusPsicofactum
    @IuliusPsicofactum Год назад +1

    Congratulations :)

  • @mrautistic2580
    @mrautistic2580 Год назад

    Well Done!

  • @cxzuk
    @cxzuk Год назад +14

    Great at math, not so great at drawing circles ✍️

  • @adeoyematthews8834
    @adeoyematthews8834 Год назад

    whow! well done

  • @svenjaaunes2507
    @svenjaaunes2507 11 месяцев назад

    so.. does this Vogt-Larson theorem have a wikipedia page yet?

  • @coffeeandproofs
    @coffeeandproofs Год назад +1

    Hmmm I wonder if the same tuples appear in the tropical setting! Perhaps preserved under degeneration - but tropically I could believe more tuples show up because of tropical varieties that aren’t tropicalizations of regular curves…
    Unrelatedly, I’m also curious: in these exceptional cases, how else are they geometrically realized? Consider an exceptional case triple (d,g,r). Does this imply curves of of genus g embed into their W_d^r(C) in a special/unexpected way?

  • @flymypg
    @flymypg Год назад +2

    Many of the mathematicians I know occasionally adorn themselves with some kind of mathematical object. Do Professor Vogt's earrings have such a story?

    • @aron8999
      @aron8999 Год назад

      They look like algebraic surfaces to me.

  • @MusicFanatical1
    @MusicFanatical1 Год назад

    Fields Medal contender?

  • @biloxibryan
    @biloxibryan Год назад

    I need her to extrapolate more info about the exceptions.. ! #Numberphile3

  • @Stephen-Harding
    @Stephen-Harding Год назад

    Funny, I didn't understand anything about the theorem, except that It seems beautiful, and also she is a cutie pie.

  • @frankharr9466
    @frankharr9466 Год назад

    Sadly, I don't really get it. I'll have to take another run at it.

  • @dragonzed
    @dragonzed Год назад

    A few questions for Vogt: You mentioned that the four exceptions are curves that live in a surfaces that do not pass through the right number of points. Is there anything in common between these four surfaces? Are they pretty? (Show us pictures! :D )

  • @justpaulo
    @justpaulo Год назад +2

    I'm guessing that r=1, which would cause problems given the r-1 denominator, makes no sense because you can not have an Horizon of dimension 0.

    • @ravi12346
      @ravi12346 Год назад +4

      Pretty much. There aren't many curves in 1-dimensional space!

  • @leif1075
    @leif1075 11 месяцев назад

    What would make someone think fo complex numbers though..it could have all real solutions for all you know..

  • @CalvinLXVII
    @CalvinLXVII 7 месяцев назад

    4' 26'' 😂😂😂😂👍👍👌😉

  • @kirkanos771
    @kirkanos771 Год назад +1

    I've had to watch the pair of videos twice because i was too confused the first time by the four switches at the back of the book shelf. WTH a library has wiring behind wood in 2023.

  • @atimholt
    @atimholt 18 дней назад

    4:08: Is ℙ an alternative symbol for the complex numbers?

  • @AustinSmithProfile
    @AustinSmithProfile Год назад +12

    Very cool! Since two of the exceptions are (as I understand it) in 3-dimensional space, is there a way for us to kind of easily visualize those?

    • @tylerduncan5908
      @tylerduncan5908 Год назад +5

      I would love to know this as well.

    • @dehnsurgeon
      @dehnsurgeon Год назад +12

      it's actually 6 real dimensions (3 complex) so probably not

    • @asthmen
      @asthmen Год назад

      I thought the '3 complex' only applied for the surface, not for the curve?

    • @JohnDoe-ti2np
      @JohnDoe-ti2np Год назад +6

      @@asthmen No, all the dimensions are complex. One is trying to fit a complex curve (2 real dimensions) through a bunch of points in complex 3-space (6 real dimensions), and their impossibility proof argues that the curve lies on a complex surface (4 real dimensions), and even the surface can't interpolate the points.

  • @_ilsegugio_
    @_ilsegugio_ Год назад +3

    we can agree Analysis has the best tricks in the book, but Algebra is the legit magic

    • @rosiefay7283
      @rosiefay7283 10 месяцев назад

      But number theory has a better combo of simple materials and complex situations (including conjectures that are simple to state).

  • @minerharry
    @minerharry 11 месяцев назад

    This is so cool and I would love for a deeper dive into this, maybe at main channel pace. Let’s have more Isabel!

  • @oncedidactic
    @oncedidactic Год назад +3

    That’s so weird and cool. What is driving the exceptions!? Why is it finitely occurring and in the small numbers!? Those particular numbers