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  • Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024
  • Also known as Graeco-Latin Squares. Featuring Dr James Grime.
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  • @numberphile
    @numberphile  4 года назад +130

    Extra footage at: ruclips.net/video/HuIrUeODtVQ/видео.html
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    • @deepakkpradhan
      @deepakkpradhan 4 года назад +5

      Sadly, sharadchandra shankar shrikhande one of the co-authors of the Euler's spoiler paper passed away recently.

    • @NStripleseven
      @NStripleseven 4 года назад +1

      deepak pradhan Wow, that's sad.

    • @leif1075
      @leif1075 4 года назад

      Wait i thought BOTH diagonals had to be different but for the 3x3 you have one diagonal as A A A ..at 8:20 isnt that wrong?

    • @leif1075
      @leif1075 4 года назад

      Also at 8:35 you have the same number in the diagonal...that's inconsistent too..cant have all 3s or all 1s..should be one of each..

    • @RedwoodRhiadra
      @RedwoodRhiadra 4 года назад +2

      @@leif1075 He explicitly says the diagonal restriction is only for the 4x4 cards puzzle and not for the general Latin Squares puzzle.

  • @massimookissed1023
    @massimookissed1023 4 года назад +2674

    Moral of story:
    _Even when Euler's wrong, he _*_still_*_ gets things named after him._
    (That's gotta make Matt Parker feel better.)

    • @electromika
      @electromika 4 года назад +156

      What a Parker naming system.

    • @yourguard4
      @yourguard4 4 года назад +28

      Even things, which doesnt exists, need a name, so that everyone knows, what you are talking about :P

    • @rcb3921
      @rcb3921 4 года назад +38

      The Euler Square O.O I can't believe that went over my head.

    • @sumdumbmick
      @sumdumbmick 4 года назад +3

      nah, the moral of the story is that people who name discoveries after people are idiots.

    • @fredg8328
      @fredg8328 4 года назад +14

      @@sumdumbmick Because people don't deserve being recognized for their work ?

  • @K-o-R
    @K-o-R 4 года назад +741

    10:52 No-one brute-forces a problem like Gaston!

    • @otakuribo
      @otakuribo 4 года назад +132

      When he was a lad he did 4 dozen trials every morning to help with the proof,
      And now that he's grown he does 5 dozen trials on his quest for mathematical truuuth!! 💪

    • @BlokenArrow
      @BlokenArrow 4 года назад +2

      🤓

    • @MichaelJamesActually
      @MichaelJamesActually 4 года назад +8

      K.o.R take my upvote

    • @talonbraxton8394
      @talonbraxton8394 4 года назад +3

      K.o.R are you a Ben and hollys little kingdom fan?

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones 4 года назад +4

      Literally egghead Gaston.

  • @jesusthroughmary
    @jesusthroughmary 4 года назад +377

    4:00 "We don't actually need to match up the diagonals."
    4:30 *diagonals match up anyway*
    The Anti-Parker Square

    • @PanduPoluan
      @PanduPoluan 3 года назад +26

      So we have Parker (dud), Non-Parker (works), and Anti-Parker (works even in ways not required by original requirements).

    • @teiermyler4926
      @teiermyler4926 2 года назад +4

      @@PanduPoluan Gold

    • @mati.benapezo
      @mati.benapezo 2 года назад +3

      @@PanduPoluan Is there the Anti Non-Parker?

    • @aidentoman-sager5527
      @aidentoman-sager5527 Год назад +5

      @@mati.benapezo so it fails even in ways not required? that's just a regular Parker

    • @SajidAlikp
      @SajidAlikp Месяц назад

      @@aidentoman-sager5527 may be one that doesn't work for trivial requirements

  • @skorp5677
    @skorp5677 4 года назад +563

    In fact so special that Euler got involved xD
    We should award puzzles with the 'Euler tried' award

    • @XHappyKillerX
      @XHappyKillerX 4 года назад +9

      The Parkeuler

    • @XHappyKillerX
      @XHappyKillerX 4 года назад +23

      Now that I think about it, I just noticed how the title "Euler Squares" must have been a deliberate reference to the Parker Square, nice!

    • @NStripleseven
      @NStripleseven 4 года назад

      Yeah, this should be a thing. xD

    • @salerio61
      @salerio61 4 года назад +8

      There's still loads of awards going for a similar idea of "Erdos tried" puzzles. You even get the choice of accepting the monetary award or a cheque signed by Erdos to frame in your study

    • @metleon
      @metleon 4 года назад +2

      Instead of 'college try' we should change it to 'Euler try'.

  • @rahulujjal8245
    @rahulujjal8245 4 года назад +327

    The youngest of the ‘Euler’s Spoilers’ is no more. He was 103. Indian mathematical genius, Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande, who along with his mentor late RC Bose and their colleague late ET Parker disproved way back in 1959 an 18th century mathematical conjecture, passed away at Vijaywada on April 21, bringing curtains to a glorious chapter from the world of statistics and mathematics.

    • @alveolate
      @alveolate 4 года назад +11

      indian mathematicians are amazing... if anyone has a nice long documentary with a bunch of indian mathematicians, please link!

    • @amritkumar7488
      @amritkumar7488 4 года назад +7

      @@alveolate there is a documentary on SC Shrikhande tho. I saw it at a college. I don't recall the name. Try googling.

    • @Maharani1991
      @Maharani1991 4 года назад +1

      +

    • @aquibalamLUMOS
      @aquibalamLUMOS 4 года назад +1

      Respect

  • @GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser
    @GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser 4 года назад +753

    Title: Euler
    Thumbnail: James Grime
    Me: visible excitement

    • @screamsinrussian5773
      @screamsinrussian5773 4 года назад +13

      Euler didn't respond to their calls :(

    • @sam08g16
      @sam08g16 4 года назад +10

      Hotel: Trivago

    • @darkphoenix0808
      @darkphoenix0808 4 года назад +4

      Is that the speaker's name? I honestly don't know

    • @squidly1369
      @squidly1369 3 года назад +3

      @@darkphoenix0808 yes it is he is the best out here I guess I mean his accent presence is awesome 😎🔥

    • @Triantalex
      @Triantalex 11 месяцев назад

      ??

  • @ajharris3486
    @ajharris3486 4 года назад +164

    This was one of the best Numberphiles in a while for me! James really knows how to give information succinctly and interestingly. Bravo, chaps!

  • @methethpropbut8519
    @methethpropbut8519 4 года назад +153

    3:33 I realise not only the rows columns and diagonals, but the four 2×2 sub-squares also have one of each rank and suit!

    • @inigo8740
      @inigo8740 4 года назад +28

      That makes it even more like a sudoku! Hooray!

    • @andersyu4464
      @andersyu4464 4 года назад +32

      also the middle 2x2 square

    • @prich0382
      @prich0382 4 года назад

      Which surly means that the "difficult" 6 by 6 example surly could be solved by doing the sub 3x3 sub squares no?

    • @gargravarr2
      @gargravarr2 4 года назад +28

      It follows by definition, since the other 3 squares of the sub-square are on the row, column and diagonal of the corner square.

    • @gabor6259
      @gabor6259 4 года назад +7

      Also the 4 corners.

  • @psyboyo
    @psyboyo 3 года назад +13

    14:02 "Never arrange a ping-pong tournament with six team members" -- I first understood "with sixteen members", I went crazy! WTF?!? And then I turn on the subtitles.

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 3 месяца назад

      Sad player "F" was the giveaway.

  • @itwasinthispositionerinoag7414
    @itwasinthispositionerinoag7414 4 года назад +506

    5:45 I'm mostly here for the twerking 4

    • @Just_A_Baryonyx
      @Just_A_Baryonyx 4 года назад +10

      i noticed that too

    • @hamiltonianpathondodecahed5236
      @hamiltonianpathondodecahed5236 4 года назад +2

      ikr

    • @Just_A_Baryonyx
      @Just_A_Baryonyx 4 года назад +6

      @@Son-Of-Gillean no....

    • @leadnitrate2194
      @leadnitrate2194 4 года назад +6

      it was in this positionerino agadmatorino Hey you're not commenting on Agadmator's recent videos. What's wrong? I really enjoyed your work during the MC Invitational.

    • @itwasinthispositionerinoag7414
      @itwasinthispositionerinoag7414 4 года назад +8

      @@leadnitrate2194 Thanks, I'm still commenting every video but he gets a lot of comments so you probably have to scroll down to find them

  • @drewnardolillo9670
    @drewnardolillo9670 4 года назад +151

    James Grime: Oiler Spoilers
    Me, an intellectual: Euler Speulers

    • @ianmoore5502
      @ianmoore5502 4 года назад +6

      I cannot stop giggling. Thank you.

  • @sean3533
    @sean3533 4 года назад +96

    Squares in order of importance
    1. Parker Square
    2. Euler Square
    3. The Square

    • @RogueLich
      @RogueLich 4 года назад +9

      4. 2^2

    • @squidly1369
      @squidly1369 3 года назад

      @@RogueLich lol😂

    • @alihesham8167
      @alihesham8167 2 года назад +1

      @@RogueLich 5. 1

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 3 месяца назад

      Times Square should be #1.
      On second thought, make that #2.

  • @mattiacapuano2022
    @mattiacapuano2022 4 года назад +639

    The ping pong letters and numbers are adorable

    • @auroralong5437
      @auroralong5437 4 года назад +43

      I thought that too until I saw their tiny white pupils and now I think I'll have nightmares....

    • @mattiacapuano2022
      @mattiacapuano2022 4 года назад +17

      @@auroralong5437 damn, you're right

    • @xan1455
      @xan1455 4 года назад +38

      Yay but 4

    • @MiserableMidnight
      @MiserableMidnight 4 года назад +1

      Nooooooooo

    • @marcushendriksen8415
      @marcushendriksen8415 4 года назад +26

      Watch #4, it looks like it's teabagging

  • @cerwe8861
    @cerwe8861 4 года назад +382

    James talks about something from Euler, can there be something better?

    • @cerwe8861
      @cerwe8861 4 года назад +4

      @Carey Hunt what?

    • @Pro_Triforcer
      @Pro_Triforcer 4 года назад +9

      You mean there's a square named after some other mathematician? Sounds almost exciting, but not quite

    • @kasajizo8963
      @kasajizo8963 4 года назад +14

      Yes, there is something better. Matt Parker talking about squares.

    • @cerwe8861
      @cerwe8861 4 года назад +4

      @@kasajizo8963 that's also cool, but like a Parker Square not perfect xD

    • @cerwe8861
      @cerwe8861 4 года назад +6

      @Carey Hunt Thanks random guy from the Internet

  • @rensvanampting234
    @rensvanampting234 4 года назад +15

    I love how team member "4" is animated at 5:46

  • @marshmelows
    @marshmelows 4 года назад +52

    That brown paper on Graham's number signed by the very own Ron Graham is just amazing! 0:25

  • @tombomb_com555
    @tombomb_com555 4 года назад +40

    It would have been nice to talk about the link between this and magic squares: say instead of AKQJ and 1234 we used two sets of 0123, and made them into the same arrangement, we could then read off each number as a two-digit number in base 4, then those would be a valid magic square (excluding diagonals) or we could add 1 to every number and it would still work. For a 3x3 example (since I know that one well), [21,00,12;02,11,20;10,22,02] (excuse the formatting) becomes [7,0,5;2,4,6;3,8,1] or [8,1,6;3,5,7;4,9,2] which is a magic square. This logic works for all sizes too.

    • @HansLemurson
      @HansLemurson 4 года назад

      Wait, so does that mean there are no 6x6 magic squares?

    • @khaitomretro
      @khaitomretro 4 года назад +2

      @@HansLemurson No. The assertion is wrong. There are 6x6 magic squares but no 6x6 magic squares that take that form. You always end up with a square that repeats one of the base 6 digits in the rows.

    • @khaitomretro
      @khaitomretro 4 года назад +1

      If you can construct a double Latin square then you can use that to create a magic square. Euler's methods for creating double Latin squares can be used to create forms of magic square but won't find all of them, just a subset.

  • @jessicawang6558
    @jessicawang6558 4 года назад +36

    After so many years I still get a smile when I see James Grime

  • @haricashravi3900
    @haricashravi3900 4 года назад +43

    This video is like a tribute to SS Shrikhande who was part of the "Euler's Spoilers" - a bunch of three people at UNC-CH who disproved Euler's generalisation of this problem - who sadly passed away on the day of the release of this video.

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  4 года назад +26

      Amazing coincidence.

    • @alveolate
      @alveolate 4 года назад +11

      @@numberphile your video --killed him-- satisfied his lifelong ambition of getting obliquely referenced in a numberphile video.

    • @haricashravi3900
      @haricashravi3900 4 года назад

      @Aleksandr A. Adamov that's weird because I clearly remember seeing the news where SSS's death was reported and a few hours later this video released... Could it be possible they had reuploaded/changed the video later?

  • @AbiGail-ok7fc
    @AbiGail-ok7fc 4 года назад +4

    Back in high school (late '70s, early '80s), our math teacher had a large, handmade, quilt hanging from one of the walls, with a 10 x 10 Euler square as the pattern. Him telling the story behind is was the first time I heard about Euler.

  • @user-mc4zu9qt8u
    @user-mc4zu9qt8u 4 года назад +66

    When he described the puzzle, I paused it, got some paper and a pen, and figured it out. And I solved it, hooray! It really is like doing double sudoku, lol. Cheers for the interesting video and fun little puzzle, Numberphile :)

    • @TheZotmeister
      @TheZotmeister 4 года назад

      Check out the 2016 United States Puzzle Championship :)

    • @helenanevrayeva
      @helenanevrayeva 4 года назад

      Haha, I was so intrigued so I pulled out a stack of cards for this 😁 I did AKDB first, then it was easy to rearrange for ♠️♥️♦️♣️. Enjoyed it thoroughly!

  • @DrKaii
    @DrKaii 4 года назад +61

    3:14 you think James is sped up here, but actually this is his normal speed, the rest of the video is slowed down

  • @bryanstanley3866
    @bryanstanley3866 4 года назад +7

    I like the framed brown paper for Graham's number hanging in the background.

  • @DeadlyOre
    @DeadlyOre Год назад

    I love that you've got the paper from the video with Ron Graham hung up on the wall. RIP

  • @mjswart73
    @mjswart73 4 года назад +26

    This lockdown really hasn't cramped the style of the animator. Full marks. I love it.

  • @balinttoth9287
    @balinttoth9287 4 года назад +21

    "it's so difficult Euler got involved"

  • @Freytana
    @Freytana 4 года назад +5

    Grime's passion is always very enjoyable to listen to and watch

  • @anticorncob6
    @anticorncob6 2 года назад +1

    I love the music and fireworks animation when it was falsely revealed that those cases were impossible.

  • @adrianfletcher8963
    @adrianfletcher8963 4 года назад +12

    I love how you never cease to stop making innovative animations

  • @WaterCarrier07
    @WaterCarrier07 3 года назад +14

    I always love when different pronunciations clash like one is correcting the other straight away... “ohh it’s a Sudoku” ... “yes a sudoku”

    • @howard5992
      @howard5992 Год назад +1

      and each time the word " sudoku " is repeated more emphasis can be placed upon that work in the sentence until it can become a very happy shouting match !

  • @justbetty7334
    @justbetty7334 4 года назад +36

    I love NumberPhile! I watch it all the time. It's one of the only this getting me through lockdown! 😀

    • @zinniaward8549
      @zinniaward8549 4 года назад +1

      Mood

    • @esotericVideos
      @esotericVideos 4 года назад

      I do too! I'm a little concerned that they don't seem to be too socially distanced in their videos though. I don't want any of my Maths friends to get sick.

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 4 года назад +3

      esotericVideos
      I’m sure it was filmed well before the lockdown.

  • @billkill37
    @billkill37 3 года назад +1

    What a power move by Euler!
    "I cannot do it, therefore it is impossible!"

  • @mathguy7480
    @mathguy7480 4 года назад +68

    Can we talk about that 4 for a second?

  • @LukePalmer
    @LukePalmer 2 года назад +2

    Never arrange a ping-pong tournament with *36 members

  • @jonopriestley9461
    @jonopriestley9461 4 года назад +16

    Classic James. What a mad lad. We gotta have Numberphile live-streams some time.

  • @Codricmon
    @Codricmon 4 года назад +2

    That four day tournament was the greatest event of my life - the first game on the second day was just the bomb!

  • @vj_henke
    @vj_henke 4 года назад +3

    11:12 "To be fair, he was a proper mathematician. But he also checked every case." Shaking my head

  • @ghost_cipher
    @ghost_cipher 4 года назад +1

    James got me interested in teaching myself better math skills that have laid dormant for years.....BIG THANKS!!!!

  • @TheAntibozo
    @TheAntibozo 4 года назад +3

    James Grime is such a wonderful communicator.

  • @Stephen_Lafferty
    @Stephen_Lafferty 4 года назад +1

    It's great to see James again - I feel like I haven't seen him in a NP video for ages!

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  4 года назад

      Do you have notifications on for our videos? Bash that bell 🔔

  • @mchammer5026
    @mchammer5026 4 года назад +5

    oh boy that 4 sure is disturbing

  • @DuCaDo003
    @DuCaDo003 4 года назад +1

    One of your best videos in quite a while. Really enjoyable. James really knows how to explain things. Thanks!

  • @RecursiveTriforce
    @RecursiveTriforce 4 года назад +22

    In my head I'm just singing to the "ABC Song" by Jackson 5:
    A B C pair them with 1 2 3.
    A B C 1 2 3, that's how easy maths can be!

  • @mustardistasty
    @mustardistasty 3 года назад +1

    Brady’s animations are so underrated

  • @hazimans
    @hazimans 4 года назад +8

    watching this while currently having in sudoku mood. I suddenly thought of this sudoku variant, 2 sudokus (normal sudoku and wordoku) in one grid following regular rules with the extra rules mention in this video (each cell must have a unique combination of a letter and a number) would be interesting tho (and hard)

  • @ralfoide
    @ralfoide 4 года назад

    Dr. James Grime is such a joy to listen and watch at. Always with a big smile. We need more enthusiastic people like him :)

  • @zaphodbeeblebrox5511
    @zaphodbeeblebrox5511 4 года назад +7

    This reminds me of "The Schoolgirl Problem Puzzle" :
    In a boarding school there are fifteen schoolgirls who always take their daily walks in groups of three.
    How can it be arranged so that each schoolgirl walks in a group with two different companions every day for a week (7 days)?

    • @woodchuk1
      @woodchuk1 4 года назад

      ZaphoD Beeblebrox Isn’t that an instance of a Steiner Triple system of order 15, where there would be (15*14)/6, or 35 triples?

    • @rosiefay7283
      @rosiefay7283 4 года назад +1

      Let's give Kirkman due credit for this problem.
      Another Numberphile video, perhaps?

    • @omikronweapon
      @omikronweapon 4 года назад

      @@rosiefay7283 sounds like one for Cliff. He loves Euler and stuff about taking walks.

  • @EebstertheGreat
    @EebstertheGreat 4 года назад

    In 2012, this channel uploaded a video about a "special magic square" that remains magic after rotation or reflection. But this video provides the explanation. It is really two orthogonal 4x4 Latin squares with the digits 1, 2, 5, and 8: one for the tens place and one for the units place. These digits rotate or reflect to give 1, 5, 2, and 8, respectively, so the Latin square property still holds. So the total of every row, column, and diagonal must be 1 + 2 + 5 + 8 = 16 for both the unit and tens digits, giving a total 160 + 16 = 176, invariant under reflection or rotation by 180 degrees.

  • @dragonfruitdana
    @dragonfruitdana 4 года назад +3

    I’ve had a puzzle like this ever since I was a child, with colours and numbers instead of card values and suits. Never knew it was called an Euler square :)

  • @ronniesims547
    @ronniesims547 2 года назад +2

    The four corners also constitute a four card set, as do the central four cards and each four card quadrant, plus others. If you were given all these conditions to meet at the start, it would seem more difficult to solve, but actually makes it easier.

  • @rubenleejohnsen2037
    @rubenleejohnsen2037 4 года назад +25

    I see Euler and James grime in title, i click.

  • @armin.hierstetter
    @armin.hierstetter 4 года назад

    There are more symmetries in your first working example: top middle two, bottom middle two; corner cards, left middle two, right middle - all of them fulfill the rule. And a few more.

  • @avi12
    @avi12 4 года назад +66

    14:04 Fs in the chat

  • @johninwaynenewjersey5253
    @johninwaynenewjersey5253 4 года назад

    Throughout history there have been teachers that, through a combination of their passion and understanding for the subject and the way they present it, make learning easy to digest. James Grime is one of those and I envy the students that have studied under him.

  • @G33v3s
    @G33v3s 4 года назад +18

    I reckon they should have called them “Speulers”

  • @chowzen3623
    @chowzen3623 2 года назад +1

    Mathematicians know humor: "They're called 'Euler Spoilers.' I think it's kind of a joke."

  • @prasanttwo281
    @prasanttwo281 4 года назад +8

    I bet after it was disproven, Euler's viewers started using the term to describe anything that was given a go but had something wrong in it. As in, "Oh look at that square number magic square Matt Parker came up with, it's such an Euler square of a solution!"

  • @kungfutuber
    @kungfutuber 4 года назад +1

    Just completed one with each row, column and corner diagonal. It's also nice to see the centre 4 are also one of each, as is each corner, including many 4 place patterns like B1, C1, B4 & C4 for example! :)

  • @JJ-kl7eq
    @JJ-kl7eq 4 года назад +3

    Somewhere near the 3:20 mark a chipmunk solves the puzzle.

  • @Shlungoidwungus
    @Shlungoidwungus 4 года назад +2

    It looks like you can handle this puzzle pretty easily by solving just for suits and just for types, making sure your solutions for both are not isomorphic to one another, then combining them into one grid.
    Edit: Just watched a bit later where he pretty much explicitly mentions that. My brain is on airplane mode.

  • @emoluv54865
    @emoluv54865 4 года назад +19

    I am a simple man ,I see James. I suddenly love math... Until the video ends.

  • @CdFMasterVideo
    @CdFMasterVideo 4 года назад +1

    I feel like those dancing letters and numbers are gonne stay stuck in my mind for quite a long time. I'm not sure whether I should complain about it.

  • @TrappedinaBrain
    @TrappedinaBrain 4 года назад +2

    I'd be interested in a way of judging "how wrong" a square is, and then seeing how many 6 squares exist that are the "least wrong"

  • @nickroh.6088
    @nickroh.6088 4 года назад +1

    4:25 I like how he managed to get the diagonals anyway even though he didn't need to

  • @jodfrut771
    @jodfrut771 4 года назад +11

    5:40 that four was flapping his privates LOL

  • @HermanTheGerman-i9e
    @HermanTheGerman-i9e 2 месяца назад +1

    I see Grime, I click. I see Grime and Euler, I double click.

  • @ShuffleboardJerk
    @ShuffleboardJerk 4 года назад +10

    thanks JAMES

  • @MaziarYousefi
    @MaziarYousefi 4 года назад +1

    That number 4's dance is something.

  • @MoosesValley
    @MoosesValley 3 года назад +3

    You can say one thing about Euler, he sure greased the wheels of progress. 🤣

  • @NobodyYouKnow01
    @NobodyYouKnow01 3 месяца назад

    I like how, in the 4x4 solutions, each quadrant also still somehow maintains the limitation that each suit and each rank only appear once.

  • @tuftman6092
    @tuftman6092 4 года назад +11

    I got really into these a couple of years ago. and I found another type of puzzle that is also cool. It's basically the same except instead of an n by n grid with 1 of n items in each row and column you have a 2n by 2n grid with exactly 2 of each item in each row and column. I was trying to figure out how many different possibilities there are, but it's harder to compute than the euler squares.

  • @oblivion_2852
    @oblivion_2852 4 года назад

    I got to learn about latin hypercubes last semester in order to determine a reasonably random uniform selection of a multidimensional variable selection. I had to create 200 points distributed through 5 dimensions down the 'diagonal'. Then randomly swapped values between points along the same dimension. Ie n=2,x=2 swaps with n=10,x=10. The reason to do this was interesting. It meant that we could do a constant set of tests for whatever number of variables we came up with to test.
    The variables were being chosen to run a simulation between a parasite living off a population and succeeded or failed if they reached equilibrium or died/became unbounded.

  • @sudheerthunga2155
    @sudheerthunga2155 4 года назад +10

    Omg!! James Grime!! (The earliest I've been)

  • @abracadabra8501
    @abracadabra8501 4 года назад +1

    James grime is so engaging I love it when he’s in the videos

  • @akshatmishra885
    @akshatmishra885 4 года назад +10

    What a coincidence....just when the Indian Mathematician who debunked Euler's Theory passed away!
    P.S. - He died today at the age of 103!
    His name was Shrikhande !

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  4 года назад +3

      Amazing coincidence!!!

    • @zstanojevic9574
      @zstanojevic9574 4 года назад +1

      @@numberphile Also, a video tributing Conway's departure is visibly missing..

    • @WatchingMyLifeFlashB
      @WatchingMyLifeFlashB 4 года назад

      The video showed an Indian Raj Bose as completing it successfully in the 1950's, '54 I believe it was. This Strickhande was he in the '20s that were later disproven until Bose, or was Strickhande later?

  • @alexbrockwell8158
    @alexbrockwell8158 4 года назад +1

    For those wanting to take a crack at the puzzle, it works well in Paint with 4 different shapes and 4 different colors

  • @LinkAranGalacticHero
    @LinkAranGalacticHero 4 года назад +3

    7:12
    Number 2 in third place
    *logic*: wait, that's illegal!

    • @waldokind
      @waldokind 4 года назад

      Waltlab Channel Zero based?

  • @edelcorrallira
    @edelcorrallira 4 года назад

    Oh man this remind me of playing around with multidimension Karnaugh maps. I love this channel so much, thank you guys for keeping science available for all

  • @jalepezo
    @jalepezo Год назад

    I heard of the latin square design by learning about experimental design, nice to see math at work!

  • @LaGuerre19
    @LaGuerre19 4 года назад +7

    James 👏 Grime 👏 makes 👏 my 👏 day 👏

  • @MttGaming904
    @MttGaming904 10 месяцев назад

    euler gets hundreds of problems right: ok
    euler gets a few questions wrong: everything blows up...

  • @robinsparrow1618
    @robinsparrow1618 4 года назад +22

    14:52 wait, *that* adam savage? or just someone coincidentally named adam savage?

    • @HanabiraKage
      @HanabiraKage 4 года назад +11

      Adam Savage is a massive fan of Numberphile, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was the actual guy himself.

    • @screamsinrussian5773
      @screamsinrussian5773 4 года назад +1

      Yes.

    • @timothymckane6362
      @timothymckane6362 4 года назад +3

      "I reject your identity, and substitute my own."

    • @omikronweapon
      @omikronweapon 4 года назад +1

      I mean, the dude díd just recently do a video with Matt Parker.

    • @michaelmatter1222
      @michaelmatter1222 4 года назад +1

      Some people say it's him, I say it's a Myth :D

  • @SomeoneCommenting
    @SomeoneCommenting 4 года назад +1

    It's interesting how Euler could come with some of the most important and famous math contributions in history, and also many times just guessed stuff whimsically.

  • @esotericVideos
    @esotericVideos 4 года назад +4

    It's charming that James has a framed bit of numberphile paper in his house.

    • @renerpho
      @renerpho 4 года назад +1

      And not just any framed bit, but the paper from one of Numberphile's most iconic videos, signed by Ronald Graham himself. :-)

    • @jrdnajh
      @jrdnajh 4 года назад +1

      I think that's Brady's house.

  • @eyadfromthesky
    @eyadfromthesky 4 года назад

    Dr. Grime videos are probably the easiest to follow. I wish my school had professors like him

  • @menpee
    @menpee 4 года назад +4

    Ping-pong player B did literally nothing and still won the tournament. Impressive.

  • @jimdevilbiss9125
    @jimdevilbiss9125 4 года назад +1

    This was an excellent presentation as all of yours are. Having taught statistics for years I never thought of using this with setting an Experiment thank you.

  • @mattiviljanen8109
    @mattiviljanen8109 4 года назад +3

    12:45 I would love to have that thing hanging on my wall! Upvote for new merch!

  • @NothingMaster
    @NothingMaster 4 года назад +1

    The rules don’t work out for a 6 by 6 Flat Torus, unless you Nash-isometric-embed it, with extra curled up squares/corrugations, into something like a Hévéa Torus. Hey, don’t knock it, they do those tortuous sleights of hand in String Theory all the time. 😀 As a fun-filled alternative: One might be able to make a 6 by 6 square work, if the surface was a special (holographic-like) 2D section of a 6D Calabi-Yau manifold. If nothing else it would be an interesting little exercise.

  • @XHappyKillerX
    @XHappyKillerX 4 года назад +3

    What a ride.

  • @McJaews
    @McJaews 4 года назад +2

    I always thought his name was pronounced "Yuler".
    Learned two new things in one video!

  • @jedagelijksebraintraining
    @jedagelijksebraintraining 4 года назад +9

    14:04 you better don't want a tournement with 12 members (A, B, C, D, E, F, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), not 16.

    • @abhijiths5237
      @abhijiths5237 4 года назад +6

      I think he said 6 team members not 16

    • @jedagelijksebraintraining
      @jedagelijksebraintraining 4 года назад +2

      @@abhijiths5237 6 players do work because that is 3x3.
      Sorry if i missheard.

    • @andersbendsen5931
      @andersbendsen5931 4 года назад

      @@jedagelijksebraintraining 3 by 3 is nine. What they said was 6 by 6 won't work.

    • @brianmarco5873
      @brianmarco5873 4 года назад +1

      @Je dagelijkse braintraining *** wiskunde-puzzels 6 team members with 2 teams make 12. As opposed to 6 player with 2 teams of 3 team members. The ping pong tournament described had 2 teams. I also misheard it as 16 though.

    • @howardchan3244
      @howardchan3244 4 года назад

      @@abhijiths5237 That's make sense. I am confused for a minute thinking I do not understand the problem.

  • @BarbarianGod
    @BarbarianGod 4 года назад +3

    The first puzzle reminded me of a Knight's Tour a lot

  • @thomasboulousisviolin
    @thomasboulousisviolin Год назад +3

    A latin squared
    =double latin square😂

  • @Elitematt74
    @Elitematt74 4 года назад +1

    This video was a mental rollercoaster ride

  • @char7114
    @char7114 4 года назад +20

    I know probably no one really cares, but I solved it all on my own and I'm really proud.

  • @toncent
    @toncent 4 года назад +1

    B actually won that ping pong tournament without moving his bat even once. What a bold strategy!

  • @Arthur0000100
    @Arthur0000100 4 года назад +9

    But WHY doesn't 6x6 work??

    • @renerpho
      @renerpho 4 года назад +4

      An example of the strong law of small numbers (2 and 6 are pretty small). They sometimes do weird things that aren't representative of the general behaviour.

    • @jacobnugent6895
      @jacobnugent6895 4 года назад +1

      @Nhật Nam Trần I agree. why only six? I feel like if six doesn't work, then it should manifest itself again at some point on the number line, causing some multiple of 6 to not work either.

  • @SgtSupaman
    @SgtSupaman 4 года назад +1

    Now I'm wondering about adding a third dimension to it. You talked about bigger and bigger squares, but what about adding a 3rd component? Perhaps we can make cubes where an element can't share a trait with another element in either rows of the same layer or in its column.
    After having tried it out with a 3x3x3, it basically seems to be stacks of different solutions for the square version. The additional trait didn't appear to add much of interest, though perhaps that might change with larger cubes. I guess a 4x4x4 could at least include the diagonal rule to make it more challenging (especially since, instead of just 2 diagonal lines, a cube has 22).