Visualizing Fermat's Last Theorem

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  • Опубликовано: 27 окт 2024

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  • @dvashunz7880
    @dvashunz7880 4 года назад +316

    So this was what things were like before 3Blue1Brown

    • @cubernetes
      @cubernetes 4 года назад +4

      lmao

    • @TIO540S1
      @TIO540S1 3 года назад +11

      Yeah, but it’s a very nice video even today, let alone for its time.

    • @vikraal6974
      @vikraal6974 3 года назад +8

      This is 3b1b on steroids

    • @mikeyoung3870
      @mikeyoung3870 2 года назад

      @@vikraal6974 I think steroids is an understatement. More like you whole entire diet is nothing more than 200 grams of testosterone mixed with Ayahuasca

    • @worndoubloon1175
      @worndoubloon1175 9 месяцев назад +1

      News music intensifies

  • @jaguarfacedman1365
    @jaguarfacedman1365 7 лет назад +339

    the music makes me feel like im in a pokemon battle.

    • @eddyhans5365
      @eddyhans5365 4 года назад +4

      That "music" is very disruptive!

    • @jaguarfacedman1365
      @jaguarfacedman1365 4 года назад +5

      @@eddyhans5365 I had completely forgotten this comment.

    • @memenganimation2488
      @memenganimation2488 4 года назад +1

      @@jaguarfacedman1365 This comment is gold

    • @flyingstonemon3564
      @flyingstonemon3564 3 года назад +4

      Why does It feel like a mix of a bunch of rpgs, I feel dragon quest pokemon and final fantasy? Is is the classic feel mixed with an epic synth feel?

  • @bobsuruncle8938
    @bobsuruncle8938 10 лет назад +480

    Somewhere, Fermat is laughing at all of us, saying, "Those fools fell for that joke I wrote in the margin!"

    • @usurper1091
      @usurper1091 7 лет назад +20

      Bob Suruncle , it's already been proved

    • @hungtrumno
      @hungtrumno 7 лет назад +45

      The joke part is "I know how to prove but there is not enough space in the margin"

    • @non-inertialobserver946
      @non-inertialobserver946 6 лет назад +3

      tic toc It's better if you work on things that aren't proven, like the riemann hypothesis

    • @nebilm8947
      @nebilm8947 5 лет назад

      hung trumno hahahhahaha

    • @non-inertialobserver946
      @non-inertialobserver946 4 года назад

      @Gareth Ma I didn't say that new proofs to old theorems aren't useful, just that new proofs to new theorems are more useful

  • @valentinsarmagal
    @valentinsarmagal 10 лет назад +150

    the ending was the nerdiest joke ever

  • @alexanderolena
    @alexanderolena 2 года назад +14

    "Extends in two dimentional surface embedded in four dimentional space." Finally simple explanation I was looking for.

  • @BENebuchadnezzar
    @BENebuchadnezzar 9 лет назад +101

    "If only I could explain it to you before I run out of videotape!"... and presumably die as well.

  • @believeit7818
    @believeit7818 9 лет назад +80

    the fuckin.... what?

  • @mueezadam8438
    @mueezadam8438 4 года назад +37

    Only a true mathematician can fully appreciate this visualization.
    I, unfortunately, am not one of said mathematicians.

  • @clarekuehn4372
    @clarekuehn4372 5 лет назад +7

    Very good! I think what it's saying is:
    The cone in a grid cube near the beginning is a shape (model), to show visually, in a different way, all solutions for Pythagoras' theorem, a2 + b2 = c2, by where the cone hits the points inside the cube on the green dots. (Before that, it showed a circle on a two-dimensional grid. That sort of works to show which solutions for Pythagoras' theorem, but only if you project it up into three dimensions do you see how all solutions get bigger and bigger.) When the grid is changed into feactional points, or the shape to touch them is made more complex (as different curves than a cone, which is basically a circle from the top), no points still hit (green dots). This means that, despite all the shapes thought of to "hit the grid and make green dots", i.e., hit integer solutions for powers over 2, nothing has been found as of yet. To prove that nothing could be found is what the solution did.

  • @Cyberw4y
    @Cyberw4y 9 лет назад +91

    OOOOOoooh! Pretty shapes!

    • @TrojanVirus
      @TrojanVirus 8 лет назад

      same

    • @prajnaprajna1923
      @prajnaprajna1923 7 лет назад +1

      To prove Fermat clearly, short,absolutely, easily
      I use the condition xyz are integer
      1^2+2^2+3^2+4^2+....+n^2=Sn=n(n+1)(2n+1)/6=2n^3+3n^2+n/6
      2n^3=6Sn - 3n^2 -n
      n^3=3Sn-3/2n^2-n/2.
      Fermat had said x^3+y^3=/z^3
      I supose
      x^3+y^3=z^3
      3Sx-3/2x^2-x/2+3Sy-3/2y^2-y/2 -3Sz+3/2z^2+z/2=0
      x^2+y^2-z^2=2Sx+2Sy-2Sz-x/3-y/3+z/3.
      Sx+S(x-1)+Sy+S(y-1)-Sz-S(z-1)=x/3+y/3-z/3.
      Or
      2S(x-1)+2S(y-1)- 2S(z-1)+x^2+y^2-z^2=x/3+y/3-z/3
      So
      1^2+2^2+3^2+..+(x-1)^2+1^2+2^2+3^2+..+(y-1)^2- [ 1^2+2^2+3^2+..+(z-1)^2]= - x^2/2- y^2/2 +z^2/2+x/6+y/6-z/6
      Because
      x(x-1)(2x-1)/6+y(y-1)(2y-1)/6- z(z-1)(2z-1)/6=/ - x^2/2- y^2/2 +z^2/2+x/6+y/6-z/6
      Contrary to the assumption
      conclusive
      x^3+y^3=/z^3.
      General, using
      1^a+2^a+3^a+...n^a=Sn
      Prove
      x^n+y^n=/z^n

    • @zionjpark
      @zionjpark 6 лет назад

      prajñā prajñā please explain how the equation under “Because” is an inequality

  • @Stratomacaster
    @Stratomacaster 10 лет назад +71

    This video would have been much better if I didn't feel like I had won a cheesy prize on the Price Is Right.

  • @sigmaprime4307
    @sigmaprime4307 8 лет назад +182

    I got a proof, but it's too long for this youtube comment ;-)

  • @TheLegolasguy
    @TheLegolasguy 12 лет назад +13

    When my math teacher mentioned in class that he would give us extra credit for proving this, I made the mistake of taking him seriously. But, of course, that afternoon, when I looked up the theorem, I came to my senses.

  • @dcterr1
    @dcterr1 3 года назад +10

    Wow, that's some pretty impressive computer graphics for 1990!

  • @nikoandroman
    @nikoandroman Год назад +1

    Bruh wdf, I’m hearing the words he’s saying but I can’t understand what he’s talking about and how he reached that conclusion. It’s like hearing a language you don’t understand

  • @boazthomassie4919
    @boazthomassie4919 10 лет назад +40

    I understand none of this

    • @vishalshinde5252
      @vishalshinde5252 6 лет назад +3

      Your e not alone

    • @user-hh9uc4qb8c
      @user-hh9uc4qb8c 5 лет назад +4

      Actually only less than 100 people on earth right now understand the too long and lengthy proof of Fermat's last eqn.

  • @AbhirupMukherjee10
    @AbhirupMukherjee10 8 лет назад +40

    Loved the ending!

  • @naicotennis
    @naicotennis 11 лет назад +26

    I have a proof but it won't fit in this comment! RUclips limits the number of words you can- ah, damn, never mind. Unlimited characters in comments... Umm, well... I would show you my proof, but I gotta go now, other stuff to do.

    • @estuhyerh67ber7
      @estuhyerh67ber7 11 лет назад +11

      not very original

    • @katherinehunter8494
      @katherinehunter8494 11 лет назад +1

      oh my god you sound just like fermat, only he says i have a proof but this margin is too small to contain ... sure the space limit is not an excuse?

  • @josegomez6549
    @josegomez6549 8 лет назад +55

    1. brain.exe has stopped worked
    2. nah fam chill
    3. you lost me at 0:47

    • @TrojanVirus
      @TrojanVirus 8 лет назад +1

      same

    • @TrossachsPhoto
      @TrossachsPhoto 8 лет назад +6

      x² + y² = z²
      If you pick any point on the surface of that cone, you'll get an x,y,z coordinate... which will satisfy Pythagoras (Fermat at n=2). So the surface of the cone is the solution which includes all non-integer numbers. However, at x=±3 and y=±4 and z=5, valid points on the cone, this is Fermat solution for n=2 (positive integers).
      What follows is if we rendering a shape which represents every valid solution for x³+y³=z³ (and then for subsequent higher powers), there are valid non-integer values for this equation, but conjectures (as did Fermat) that there isn't place on the shape, where all three coordinates are exact integers.

    • @josegomez6549
      @josegomez6549 8 лет назад +1

      SnapGotYou.com / Trossachs Photography I appreciate that you tried to explain it, I really do, but I still can't really understand it beyond the basic stuff that nothing in
      x² + y² = z² will work out. That's all I get, the rest is just too damn complicated visually to see and understand for me as it is right now.

    • @skeletonrowdie1768
      @skeletonrowdie1768 7 лет назад +2

      i got lost at 1:07 xD

  • @neelmodi5791
    @neelmodi5791 10 лет назад +14

    LOL I started laughing in the ending... wouldn't be surprised if that was Fermat himself

  • @johns5037
    @johns5037 11 лет назад +2

    That is one of the best conclusions to a youtube video I have ever seen.

  • @APh_
    @APh_ 11 лет назад

    this background music makes the video sounds like its for an anime/video game rather than an a mathematical problem

  • @xycubed
    @xycubed 11 лет назад +3

    Each stage of explanation in this video needs about 10x as much time devoted to it. >.

  • @jamesyeung3286
    @jamesyeung3286 4 года назад +2

    holy shit how the fuck did one of the easiest theorem to write out require the most abstract and difficult field of mathematics to prove.

  • @alkankondo89
    @alkankondo89 10 лет назад +2

    Side note: I like the upbeat music in septuple meter!

    • @pcred567
      @pcred567 9 лет назад +1

      yeah, in retrospect that totally was 7/4 lol
      Never before heard a song written quite like that. Also for some reason the song artist decided to put accents on beats 1 and 4.5? so that's strange.

  • @MakarSvet13
    @MakarSvet13 6 лет назад +4

    Who understood what to say at 1:30?

    • @xCorvus7x
      @xCorvus7x 3 года назад

      "Just as one can raytrace a deformed solid, by following a deformed ray through the undeformed shape we can deform the integer grid instead of the Fairmont curve."

  • @TomValedro
    @TomValedro 9 лет назад +16

    this music makes me want to party.

  • @MrArmyHusband1
    @MrArmyHusband1 11 лет назад

    The preface of the material clearly covers that. The question is whether or not there is an alternative proof which Fermat was capable of forming with the knowledge of the era.

  • @raglanheuser1162
    @raglanheuser1162 9 лет назад +11

    i liked the final fantasy battle music

  • @Jarmo187
    @Jarmo187 10 лет назад +17

    Now this was EPIC i must say. :D

  • @jmm1233
    @jmm1233 11 лет назад +15

    lol at the end

  • @alicantuncer4800
    @alicantuncer4800 3 года назад +2

    Nice ending.

  • @watonearthisthat
    @watonearthisthat 11 лет назад

    Pretty... What were we supposed to be looking at again?

  • @claus11212
    @claus11212 11 лет назад

    cant you tell this is an old video made before youtube existed?

  • @32bikkeltje
    @32bikkeltje 8 лет назад +78

    It's nice to see something less complicated then women..

  • @azizukman
    @azizukman 8 лет назад +1

    Can I get the music in iTunes for my wedding day.

  • @ChrisOrillia
    @ChrisOrillia 11 лет назад +1

    I was NOT expecting THIS narrator to do that, truly funny.

  • @Mac2point1
    @Mac2point1 10 лет назад +2

    If fermat said there was a solution and that Wiles used maths not even invented in fermats time, either fermat was pissing about, or there was a much simpler way of solving this equation !!!

    • @davidfalk1367
      @davidfalk1367 10 лет назад +6

      It's thought that Fermat thought he had a proof but there was probably a mistake

    • @ceskale
      @ceskale 7 лет назад

      No shit

  • @Our_Sole_Pusch
    @Our_Sole_Pusch 11 лет назад

    It really doesn't need the over-dramatic music, in fact I think it would help if it wasn't included.

  • @johnjackson9767
    @johnjackson9767 4 года назад +1

    Came for the math, stayed for the Smash Bros. music.

  • @Thrawnmulus
    @Thrawnmulus 11 лет назад

    I just got here from a Numberphile vid that said Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor fixed the proof for Fermat's theorem.

  • @starrychloe
    @starrychloe 9 лет назад +19

    A+++ troll!

  • @michaelcweir
    @michaelcweir 11 лет назад

    Well you can end all your speculations. Fermat's last Theorem has been solved and you can prove it for yourself. Just search on RUclips for 'Fermat's last Theorem, the original proof'.

  • @xypheli
    @xypheli Год назад

    The hype music makes it soo much better

  • @madvoice3703
    @madvoice3703 3 года назад +1

    SUPER BRO BECAUSE OF YOUR VEDIOS I completed my research

  • @StarsManny
    @StarsManny Год назад

    I remember playing this game on a 48k spectrum.

  • @sixhundredandfive7123
    @sixhundredandfive7123 3 года назад +1

    Mathematician solving Fermat's Last Theorem
    *One Winged Angel starts playing*

  • @EddiePortal
    @EddiePortal 11 лет назад

    If you read the description you'd see the uploader KNOWS it has already been proved. This video is not about historical accuracy / proof. It is about VISUALIZING the set of equations that are relevant to the theorem (namely x^n + y^n = z^n for differing values of n).

  • @rowbeartow7376
    @rowbeartow7376 10 лет назад +5

    what? he didn't have another blank piece of paper ? did his marvelous proof need to be written in the damn margin? he would have had to know that such a proof would be a mathematical big deal and IF he had such a proof it wouldn't all be in his head. he'd have notes. the story is not credible.

    • @ActualXJoe
      @ActualXJoe 10 лет назад +2

      the numberphile channel says that the reason he didnt prove it, is because he dropped dead right after writing that he had solved the proof

    • @tommcwilliams1072
      @tommcwilliams1072 10 лет назад

      ActualXJoe The true story is that Fermat wasn't correct:
      "But this margin is too small to make a go and discover what I overlooked at first..."

    • @WillToWinvlog
      @WillToWinvlog 9 лет назад +4

      The real truth behind the matter is that he suspected the conjecture was true, but didn't have a proof.

  • @joepeach997
    @joepeach997 9 часов назад

    If aliens ever abduct me and do an intelligence test in any math greater than add/sub/mul/div, earth is doomed.

  • @prime_researchontwitter1683
    @prime_researchontwitter1683 5 лет назад

    z^n=(x+y)^n x^n+y^2≠z^n
    The value of the expansion of the equation that is the multiplication of different prime numbers. It does not become √ of a natural number.

  • @Vextrove
    @Vextrove 5 лет назад +1

    Amazing music, amazing ending

  • @brenden8125
    @brenden8125 11 лет назад +2

    Somehow, super nintendo music seemed like the best choice.

  • @sabin97
    @sabin97 11 лет назад +1

    not to be pedantic but the joke appears to be a meme of what fermat said(and i'm rephrasing in my own words as i dont remember the exact words): "i have proof but it wont fit the margin of this page"
    then the person in the video said "i have proof but it wont fit in this video tape" then the commenter said "i have proof but it wont fit in this comment"
    that's why he got all those thumbs up.

  • @tv..6531
    @tv..6531 4 года назад

    Fermat's Last Theorem: 홀수 솟수 p에 대하여 x^p+y^p=z^p을 만족하는 자연수 x, y, z는 존재하지 않는다
    (My Proof) 만약 자연수 x, y, z가 존재한다면 페르마 소정리에 의해, vw(v+w+2pk)F(v, w, p, k) = p^(p-1) k^p 으로 변형되며
    그 해는 (x, y, z) = (v+pk, w+pk, v+w+pk) 꼴이다. 그런데 자연수 k= n인 경우 해가 존재한다면 n=1*n 이므로
    k=1일 때의 해의 n배의 해를 가져야 하는데... k=1일 때 해가 존재한다면 '홀수=짝수'로 모순. 따라서 해는 존재하지 않음.

  • @misticoabadaba8965
    @misticoabadaba8965 Год назад

    For people that has mathematics in their blood: Maybe mathematicians got tired and accepted a very complicated path and 100 pages so that only a minimum number of mathematicians understand what the proof is. Here's a different approach to the Last Theorem on a single page: ruclips.net/video/-jpA-tr68ww/видео.html

  • @ta_ogboy9998
    @ta_ogboy9998 2 месяца назад

    Me: Trying understand what I'm looking at
    Brain: Pokemon music

  • @Ichijoumi
    @Ichijoumi 11 лет назад

    @kyto the theorem states that n has to be larger than 2. Your solution is incorrect as it took more than a simple equation to demonstrate that the theorem is indeed correct. No number ^n when is above two will give you whole numbers.

  • @lamalamalex
    @lamalamalex 7 лет назад

    Omg imaginge Fermat's comment on his proof on a tweet, "I've a wonderous proof that bu alas was past 140 characters"

  • @seth.heerschap
    @seth.heerschap 9 лет назад +4

    They lost me at 1:48...

  • @roidkaro
    @roidkaro 11 лет назад +1

    3^3+4^3+5^3=6^3, so there are infinitely many solutions to the first equation.
    I believe the second equation is true as well, but I'm not sure. At least there is a solution if a=0 : x=2682440, y=15365639, z=18796760 and b=20615673.
    However, I've no idea of the answer of your two next questions...

  • @frostyrobot7689
    @frostyrobot7689 Год назад

    This must have been created before Andrew Wiles solved it.

  • @venkatbabu1722
    @venkatbabu1722 3 года назад

    Bridge is a sounding echo. Bridge cannot exist. Links can be five. Five circular hallow rings.

  • @ddorman365
    @ddorman365 7 лет назад

    Thank you for the beautiful video, peace and love Doug.

  • @SpiderWick12
    @SpiderWick12 11 лет назад

    I greatly doubt that the video is 20+ years old.

  • @butteredskatoast
    @butteredskatoast 12 лет назад

    How on Earth could someone making a video about something so brainy and calculating make such a fucking hilarious ending?

  • @120551DS0u2a
    @120551DS0u2a 12 лет назад

    Skip to 1:59 to avoid a trivial introduction to the theorem

  • @likithkb8599
    @likithkb8599 3 года назад +1

    Is this really 1990?

  • @mmukulkhedekar4752
    @mmukulkhedekar4752 6 лет назад

    well I was pretty interested in those shapes than in the proof of the theorem

  • @Gewath
    @Gewath 11 лет назад

    x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = a^3
    x^4 + y^4 + z^4 + a^4 = b^4
    Are there solutions for this indefinitely for n integers to the power of n?
    Are there systematically no solutions for n integers to the power of (x>n)?

    • @kingarth0r
      @kingarth0r 3 года назад

      No, check out the shortest math paper ever. It just provides a counter example for n = 5

  • @evankocka1201
    @evankocka1201 11 лет назад

    Was just thinking we could do some rapid prodotyping and get a really cool figure.

  • @fartx211
    @fartx211 11 лет назад

    This is one of those times where the appropriate response is "lol wut"

  • @donhavis8003
    @donhavis8003 11 лет назад

    It doesn't work because it postulates that the origin has a definable value, while the edges don't.

  • @likeriver
    @likeriver 6 лет назад

    The song sounds like something out of Super Smash Bros

  • @johannesh7610
    @johannesh7610 5 лет назад

    I at least understand most of it and not only laugh at the ending joke

  • @SpiderWick12
    @SpiderWick12 11 лет назад

    Of course the fact that it was a video or a video with a person wasn't what provoked my doubts, but I see I have overlooked the opening slide some-how.
    Never-mind that thought.
    I enjoyed your sarcasm, though. Sarcasm is funny.

  • @santircastillo
    @santircastillo 11 лет назад

    There is already a proof. About a hundred pages and really complex and heay mathematical topics were needed.

  • @jedi1357
    @jedi1357 11 лет назад

    Historically, every time we discover a new numerical concept we begin using it for useful purposes: The number 0 in 500BC, Binary numbers 300BC, negative numbers 100BC, algebra 820AD, logarithms, calculus etc.
    If Fermat was wrong, then a new system would exist that we may take advantage of. Proving Fermat was right simply tells us to look elsewhere.

    • @AliceYobby
      @AliceYobby 2 года назад

      It didn’t take Fermat being wrong though. Fermat simply posing the question opened many doors

  • @Kenneth_the_Philosopher
    @Kenneth_the_Philosopher 7 лет назад

    Outstanding Video!

  • @carlkamuti
    @carlkamuti 7 лет назад

    You really, really, REALLY let yourself down at the end. You fool, this could have been so good...

  • @Peter-xs2mu
    @Peter-xs2mu 10 лет назад +1

    I think I understoond - maybe - one word in ten. I liked Euler's proof voor n=3 much better.

  • @KnakuanaRka
    @KnakuanaRka 7 лет назад

    Nice music, what is it?

  • @santircastillo
    @santircastillo 11 лет назад

    Thank you for taking the time to write that :)

  • @tirterra1222
    @tirterra1222 17 дней назад

    I just found a proof but it is too long to fit inside a youtube comment

  • @FloydMaxwell
    @FloydMaxwell 7 лет назад

    How does one comment on, or rate, a video that goes from the sublime to the ridiculous?

  • @honey4xi
    @honey4xi 6 лет назад

    How about this equation: *a^3 + b^3 + c^3 = d^3*

    • @MikeRosoftJH
      @MikeRosoftJH 6 лет назад

      This equation has many solutions. So does a^4+b^4+c^4=d^4 and a^5+b^5+c^5+d^5=e^5.

  • @jss2142
    @jss2142 6 лет назад

    Am not an expert at mathematics. But the features seem really like Calabi-Yau manifolds

  • @stanlocke5547
    @stanlocke5547 11 лет назад

    We woulda known if he didn't run out of video tape... NOW WE'LL NEVER KNOW HIS EXPLAINTIONS ! !!!

  • @cwaddle
    @cwaddle 5 лет назад +1

    Did i just watch a boss battle in final fantasy 7?

  • @roguedrones
    @roguedrones 12 лет назад

    love the joke at the end! >_< if only i can explain to you before i run out of video tape.

  • @Kenchan1337
    @Kenchan1337 11 лет назад

    call this what you might, isnt this just symmetry?

  • @OprahMemorizedPi
    @OprahMemorizedPi 11 лет назад

    I find the music selection funny.

  • @jennifer86010
    @jennifer86010 5 лет назад

    Every comment below makes absolutely NO reference to mathematics, geometry, or solving equations. So why did non-math people even watch this very technical, complicated video? That answer is a theorem that really needs solving !!

  • @giannisfafalios9906
    @giannisfafalios9906 11 лет назад

    did you try reversing the polarity?

  • @payday0023
    @payday0023 10 лет назад +10

    "video tape" haha

  • @williejohnson5172
    @williejohnson5172 4 года назад

    Wiles is wrong. The rule for natural logs prove n can be greater than 2.

  • @KongofPip
    @KongofPip 11 лет назад

    Muzak must be contagious.

  • @DocteurZeuhl
    @DocteurZeuhl 11 лет назад

    1990 music adds credibility to the scientific content.

  • @michaeldougan2129
    @michaeldougan2129 8 лет назад

    LOL What the heck happened at the end?

    • @justindecarlo9258
      @justindecarlo9258 8 лет назад +6

      Michael Dougan the joke was that the video was too short for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, just like how the margin in Fermat's paper was too small for him to write his proof.

  • @Kyleology
    @Kyleology 6 лет назад

    The graphics didn't help at all.