The Heart of Fermat's Last Theorem - Numberphile

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Modularity... Simon Pampena gets to the heart of proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
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  • @EugeneKhutoryansky
    @EugeneKhutoryansky8 жыл бұрын

    Now that we have the heart of Fermat's last theorem, we just need its liver, kidneys, gallbladder, etc...

  • @iugoeswest

    @iugoeswest

    8 жыл бұрын

    +TheAnubis022 waaah

  • @iugoeswest

    @iugoeswest

    8 жыл бұрын

    +DekuStickGamer well said!

  • @derekbaldwin8314

    @derekbaldwin8314

    8 жыл бұрын

    one of my favorite channels on one of my other favorite channels!

  • @DekuStickGamer

    @DekuStickGamer

    8 жыл бұрын

    ***** He's just replying dude. Never does he mention "Please come to my channel" or any sort of begging. He's just making a funny comment, which in turn may result in noticement for him, BUT he does not "advertise". He's not spamming, or self-promoting excessively. If he wanted attention, he could go to much more popular education channels. I mostly just see him on Numberphile.

  • @raymondfabi1140

    @raymondfabi1140

    6 жыл бұрын

    Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryans

  • @pime32
    @pime328 жыл бұрын

    *whispers* My attempt at a circle. -Yea it's not bad. -Thanks man. i lol'd

  • @McPlaySpot

    @McPlaySpot

    8 жыл бұрын

    Same xD

  • @randomjunkohyeah1

    @randomjunkohyeah1

    8 жыл бұрын

    +PIME32 "That was an oval! It has to be a circle!"

  • @ABumInABox

    @ABumInABox

    8 жыл бұрын

    +PIME32 I lol'd too.

  • @DekuStickGamer

    @DekuStickGamer

    8 жыл бұрын

    Simon

  • @jerome1335
    @jerome13358 жыл бұрын

    "That's my attempt at a circle" - "its not that bad" ... "Thanks man" idk why I laughed so much at this ffs😂😂

  • @xnax1993

    @xnax1993

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Jerome Hart The way he said "Thanks, man" was definitely what did it for me :D

  • @jerome1335

    @jerome1335

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Lime Icing same OMG 😂😂

  • @JorgetePanete

    @JorgetePanete

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jerome it's*

  • @Triantalex

    @Triantalex

    7 ай бұрын

    ??

  • @bentoth9555
    @bentoth95557 жыл бұрын

    I love how excited Brady sounds when he says "it's like a slinky."

  • @michaelbauers8800

    @michaelbauers8800

    7 жыл бұрын

    Slinkies are easy to like :)

  • @PC_Simo

    @PC_Simo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@michaelbauers8800 They are :).

  • @ArjunBahuguna
    @ArjunBahuguna8 жыл бұрын

    One of my favourite Numberphile videos now. With visual intuition, it really makes modular elliptic curves accessible.

  • @sams.1597
    @sams.15974 жыл бұрын

    I know there is a lot more to it, but this is the single best explanation of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture I’ve ever seen! “modular forms with many symmetries are actually elliptic curves in disguise”. I never really could wrap my head around modular forms until now.

  • @fSateQ
    @fSateQ8 жыл бұрын

    fisrt numberphile video i understand nothing

  • @roberttimmins415

    @roberttimmins415

    8 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @msclrhd

    @msclrhd

    8 жыл бұрын

    +fSateQ A function f(x) that is infinitely tileable repeats every distance k. That is: f(x) = f(x + nk) for all integer n A circle x^2 + y^2 = r^2 has a similar property. Every time it repeats, it loops back to the start and then draws over itself for the next cycle. This is akin to f(x) getting back to the point where it starts to repeat (i.e. any value nk). Because of this property, you can write an equation that transforms f(x) to the circle, such that k is the circumference of that circle. Fermat's last theorem states that a^n + b^n = c^n for all n > 2 does not hold for integral values of a, b and c. Thus, the inverse of that you would use in a proof by contradiction is that you can find integral values for that equation at all n > 2. Where modularity would come in is that I assume that if it is used in the proof, that proof would then be alternatively expressed as a generalised modularity (mapping tileable functions to x^n + y^n = r^n) being valid (i.e. there exists a mapping that can get you exactly back to the start of the hypercircle for tileable functions). If you could prove this to be false, you could prove Fermat's last theorem.

  • @thebigcapitalism9826

    @thebigcapitalism9826

    8 жыл бұрын

    +msclrhd oh wow that really clears it up thanks

  • @HasnainHossain_h

    @HasnainHossain_h

    8 жыл бұрын

    +fSateQ Really? You understand the higher dimension videos and have no difficulty visualizing those?

  • @callummunro7380

    @callummunro7380

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Hasnain Hossain I think he was being sarcastic...

  • @colebutler4442
    @colebutler44428 жыл бұрын

    "That's not bad" "Thanks man"

  • @Joeobrown1
    @Joeobrown18 жыл бұрын

    this all goes way over my head (and probably most of our heads), but i think we can all agree that's a pretty great shirt

  • @McPlaySpot

    @McPlaySpot

    8 жыл бұрын

    *reading the comment* "oh ikr , yea yea ikr " *reaches the shirt part* oh

  • @lights473

    @lights473

    8 жыл бұрын

    +・ヘリオディン what are you talking about? He's talking about his shirt not mathematics

  • @mighty8357

    @mighty8357

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Joe Brown I laughed really hard at this comment :D

  • @TheMrvidfreak

    @TheMrvidfreak

    8 жыл бұрын

    Greit shiet, Dolan

  • @DK-py2qx

    @DK-py2qx

    6 жыл бұрын

    Oh! Ok. I get it now. All the explanations i saw before were kind of confusing.

  • @phyein4815
    @phyein48153 жыл бұрын

    This is exactly the kind of math vid I look for - I'm a long way from being able to understand advanced math but I love attempts to paint an intuitive analog (difficult as it may be on it's own as well) to extremely technical stuff that seems so alien. Nobody can just look at a wikipedia summary of modular forms and elliptic curves and even begin to get an idea like one that is conveyed here for example. This is the kind of thing I want to get out of learning more and more advanced math.

  • @only4giga
    @only4giga8 жыл бұрын

    This video is just great. I'm tempted to say it's my favorite video of all numberphile videos so far (although the coin flip ones are a strong contestant for my favorite video as well). I've watched all videos on this channel and all your other channels Brady and ever since I saw your videos on Fermat's Last Theorem wondered how the conjecture works. Great stuff, keep up the good work!

  • @owenlever
    @owenlever8 жыл бұрын

    This is a truly marvellous demonstration of Fermat's last theorem.

  • @marsgal42

    @marsgal42

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Owen Lever Pauca sed matura. Oops. Sorry. Wrong mathematician. Me bad.

  • @lybeclt
    @lybeclt7 жыл бұрын

    The best video I saw it on this channel so far. Thank you guys 😃 see you next year!

  • @modolief
    @modolief6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for making so many high quality videos!

  • @dominiclohry1782
    @dominiclohry1782 Жыл бұрын

    what an absolutely amazingly elegant basic explanation. Thank you!

  • @RoflZack
    @RoflZack8 жыл бұрын

    The infinite plane joke at 1:40 hahaha

  • @prae197
    @prae1978 жыл бұрын

    3:22-3:25 is my favorite part tbh

  • @hayhayeht

    @hayhayeht

    8 жыл бұрын

    "That's not bad" "Thanks man" real bros there, I loved it too

  • @Goheeca
    @Goheeca8 жыл бұрын

    Please do more about this topic, this is exactly the video where I've expected an extra content.

  • @anon8109
    @anon81098 жыл бұрын

    Loved it! More videos about this please!

  • @jazzsoul69
    @jazzsoul694 жыл бұрын

    He’s so passionate that’s beautiful to see

  • @ReuvenF957
    @ReuvenF9573 жыл бұрын

    Well done! Simon actually accomplishes what he started out to do. Namely, to give a FEELING for what is involved in the proof of FLT. I'm not really a mathematician, but I can "sense" that there is a 'situation' which Simon's explanation is a metaphor of.

  • @randyzeitman1354
    @randyzeitman13546 жыл бұрын

    Severely well explained ... to get the core of the idea of modularity and whole numbers.

  • @itchybrother21
    @itchybrother218 жыл бұрын

    An incredibly brave topic to go for guys, keep it up and thanks a bunch!

  • @Srsbzns_5150

    @Srsbzns_5150

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why was it brave?

  • @samueltaylor9935

    @samueltaylor9935

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Srsbzns_5150 because this is ridiculously dumbed down for normal people to grasp

  • @shepherdpiers
    @shepherdpiers8 жыл бұрын

    Hi Brady Thanks for continuing to put out superb content. Computerphile and Numberphile are my most favourite channels on youtube. I can't get enough! I'm not sure if you're aware, or maybe it's just me, but all of you videos seem a lot quieter when compared to other videos on KZread. This results in me having to crank my speakers up quite a bit. Looking forward to more. Piers

  • @gilberttheisen9270

    @gilberttheisen9270

    9 ай бұрын

    Je n'ai jamais écrit ça !

  • @recklessroges
    @recklessroges8 жыл бұрын

    The "infinite plane" animation: ICWYDT and laughed, (so thanks), but I wondered if that might confuse newer students that don't play as comfortably with math. My second thought was that I love Dr Pampena's calmed-mania style of presentation, and the irony of describing a helix with his fingers while we are looking at many lovely examples attached to his head.

  • @nathansmith3608
    @nathansmith36088 жыл бұрын

    amazing video. this is a great high level description mathematicians usig graphs & conceptual spaces to demonstrate things about numbers & priciples

  • @ThomasGiles
    @ThomasGiles8 жыл бұрын

    That was pretty awesome! We actually glimpse some of the meat without being blasted away by the nitty gritty. Great work!

  • @general9064
    @general90648 жыл бұрын

    yay!! some concrete math appreciation! loved it

  • @ItsGlizda
    @ItsGlizda8 жыл бұрын

    Great film! I was watching it with a smile.

  • @singingblueberry
    @singingblueberry8 жыл бұрын

    An amazing explaination! I already knew some stuff about it because of the book from Simon Singh about fermats last theorem, but this was a great visualisation though.

  • @bernardofitzpatrick5403
    @bernardofitzpatrick54037 жыл бұрын

    Like Simon's way of teaching and he seems a really cool, chilled dude.

  • @shivtekoriginal
    @shivtekoriginal8 жыл бұрын

    just came home from a royal society lecture on ramanujan where his work on modular mathematics came up. Was reading Fermat's Last Theorem on the train and planned to search up about modular forms. Then this happens... love you guys

  • @Kilroyan
    @Kilroyan8 жыл бұрын

    I've read love & math and I absolutely loved it! Even as a mathematically illiterate person I was able to grasp a huge amount of what Mr. Frenkel is talking about and his own story is absolutely fascinating. I definitely recommend checking it out!

  • @IsoYear
    @IsoYear Жыл бұрын

    I am so glad I started watching this channel as it reignited my love of math. This particular video really blew my mind (and annoyed the family a tad haha)

  • @gilberttheisen9270

    @gilberttheisen9270

    9 ай бұрын

    Je n'ai jamais écrit ça !

  • @gilberttheisen9270

    @gilberttheisen9270

    9 ай бұрын

    Je n'ai jamais écrit ça !

  • @bushyconn
    @bushyconn8 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely Fabulous. I wish could understand any of it , but you are so convincing I almost want to study maths again.

  • @RedSkyHorizon
    @RedSkyHorizon8 жыл бұрын

    Guys, guys! I have a truly wonderful proof which differs from Andrew Wiles but unfortunately this comment section is too small to contain it.

  • @hououinkyouma6365

    @hououinkyouma6365

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Tom Mulligan cool

  • @eideticex

    @eideticex

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Tom Mulligan Pastebin is awesome if your proof is any more tangible than popping a 3rd dimension onto a 2-dimensional problem. I suspect this is most mathematicians problems with the slinky explanation. Fermat's Last Theorem is specifically a 2-dimensional problem but the slinky solution bolts on a 3rd dimension. You go from aa + bb = cc to aa + bb + cc = dd; you've changed the equation to make it work at that point even if it's just following the same pattern.

  • @daison2002

    @daison2002

    8 жыл бұрын

    nice one :)

  • @xXevilsmilesXx

    @xXevilsmilesXx

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Tom Mulligan lol, I get it. ;)

  • @damienlocutus

    @damienlocutus

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Alan Hunter Tom is making a reference to Fermat's original statement of the theorem...

  • @ChristopherSLucas
    @ChristopherSLucas8 жыл бұрын

    Very well done. Thank you.

  • @Epoch11
    @Epoch118 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see more on this or any of the Millennium Problems.

  • @hankyg329

    @hankyg329

    8 жыл бұрын

    Well, only one of them has actually been solved

  • @KMusic_13

    @KMusic_13

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Mark G I'd love to learn more about Navier-Stokes! I'm sure any engineers watching would also be interested in seeing them discuss it.

  • @juliusdictatorperpetuus2147

    @juliusdictatorperpetuus2147

    8 жыл бұрын

    The riemann hypothesis and Poincaré Theorem / Conjecture have been done on Numberphile. I think the issue with many of the other problems is that they're so abstract that it would take way too many videos to explain them.

  • @hakkbak
    @hakkbak8 жыл бұрын

    MORE VIDEOS ON THIS STUFF: I LIKE IT LOTS. might be appropriate to put it in numberphile2 but still, MORE PLEASE.

  • @coryrobertson6367

    @coryrobertson6367

    8 жыл бұрын

    +hakkihan tunbak who knew there was a numberphile2. Thanks.

  • @hakkbak

    @hakkbak

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Cory Robertson no prob, :D

  • @ehtikhet
    @ehtikhet5 жыл бұрын

    Yes Simon! The enthusiasm us palpable!

  • @PetraKann
    @PetraKann8 жыл бұрын

    This presentation is like trying to give a person a taste of what "calculus" is about by introducing them to the addition of fractions. I personally dont see the point. It would have been better to post this video as a description of what modular forms were (and perhaps make a reference at the end to how it was useful in the early work carried out to develop a proof of Fermat's Last theorem)

  • @phuonghovan8092

    @phuonghovan8092

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Peter Kan calculus? nope.

  • @MOHNAKHAN
    @MOHNAKHAN5 жыл бұрын

    Great Explanation 👍👍👍 Thanks.

  • @SPLEclipse
    @SPLEclipse8 жыл бұрын

    That coil shape is also used to describe wave phase transitions, except it's displayed from the "side" rather than from the "top".

  • @michaelsheffield6852
    @michaelsheffield68528 жыл бұрын

    Nicely done.

  • @CraaaabPeople
    @CraaaabPeople8 жыл бұрын

    one of the better numberphile videos

  • @scottmiller5331
    @scottmiller53318 жыл бұрын

    Brady, the slinky footage off the brown paper is really clever. Well played sir, well played.

  • @EmaDaCuz
    @EmaDaCuz8 жыл бұрын

    This guy is unreally cool, my favourite in the great set of mathematicians on this channel.

  • @selimbaydar123
    @selimbaydar1238 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for taking up modularity i kept coming across it (mainly in the proof of the abc conjecture ) once i saw ur video with the bridges (says a lot about my mathematical knowledge that bridge was the word i chose to refer to it), probably cause of the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon but still my mind feels much more clarified. U make me want to become a mathematician BRADY, U R JUST FUCKIN AWESOME

  • @GlutesEnjoyer
    @GlutesEnjoyer8 жыл бұрын

    4:15"Let's have fun"That looked so wrong in all the right ways. thanks Simon.

  • @Speireata4
    @Speireata48 жыл бұрын

    Now I wish you would break down this video to a simpler explanation again, because I have been out of school for ten years now and my native language is not English so I only have a very vage idea on what elliptic curves might be. You explained the modular forms well enough that I understood that part.

  • @AnstonMusic
    @AnstonMusic8 жыл бұрын

    I have always wanted to understand this one!

  • @AnstonMusic

    @AnstonMusic

    8 жыл бұрын

    Oh well, I guess it's a bit too complicated to fit on a 10 minute video. Also I would need to get a few courses of background info.

  • @TheMothew

    @TheMothew

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Anston [Music] I'd really recommend Simon Singh's book "Fermat's Last Theorem" from 1997. While it doesn't delve very deeply into the mathematics, it presents the story in an accessible and readable manner.

  • @AnstonMusic

    @AnstonMusic

    8 жыл бұрын

    Matthew Shepherd Ok then.

  • @Airblader

    @Airblader

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Matthew Shepherd Agreed, that book is a great read!

  • @glufull
    @glufull8 жыл бұрын

    Infinite plane FTW! And Simon, you're a great speaker.

  • @robin5171
    @robin51718 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see a full numberphile video about the proof of Fermats last theorm. Even if it is like 2-3 hours long, I'd watch it.

  • @picknikbasket
    @picknikbasket8 жыл бұрын

    Enjoyed that - any extra footage ;-)

  • @bernardfinucane2061
    @bernardfinucane20615 жыл бұрын

    In chess you have light square bishops and dark square bishops. The bishops move along diagonals, so the color of the square the bishop is on never changes. In the end game, if you opponent only has a dark square bishop, you try to keep all your pieces on light squares, because you know that no combination of legal bishop moves will ever allow that dark square bishop to threaten the light squares. This is similar to the Galois Theory proof that you can't square a circle. Using construction, you can start with length one and create line segments of irrational length. For example the square root of two is pretty easy to construct. You can create an infinite number of different irrational lengths, like seven plus the square root of two divided by two. But you can't create ALL irrational lengths. Like the dark square bishop, you can get lots of places within the rules of the game, but you can't get everywhere. The proof shows that squaring the circle involves the wrong sort of irrational numbers -- the square root of pi I think, but that is just detail. The video seems to be suggesting that similar restrictions apply to curves and modular forms. If I understand correctly, the Fermat equations look like elliptic equations, but they represent places on the playing field that the rules of modular forms don't allow.

  • @TheMrvidfreak
    @TheMrvidfreak8 жыл бұрын

    What.

  • @mechanicalsnail4703

    @mechanicalsnail4703

    8 жыл бұрын

    Same.

  • @Kuba87687

    @Kuba87687

    8 жыл бұрын

    yeah...

  • @charlienam42

    @charlienam42

    8 жыл бұрын

    +TheMrvidfreak wat

  • @aliqatishat3790

    @aliqatishat3790

    8 жыл бұрын

    Who

  • @isaacc7
    @isaacc78 жыл бұрын

    So am I correct in thinking that proving the conjecture was actually a greater addition to mathematics than proving Fermat's last theorem? I know the last theorem was what motivated Wiles but it sounds like proving the conjecture will have a long lasting impact while Fermat's last theorem is more of a curiosity.

  • @busTedOaS

    @busTedOaS

    8 жыл бұрын

    +isaacc7 The conjecture was a key part in the proof of Fermat's last theorem, so yeah, in a way the theorem is just a concrete application of this very general and surprising conjecture. Mathematicians had a harder time believing it than the theorem itself, it's almost like cheating yourself some symmetry out of the aether into your problem.

  • @ollehellemaa4789

    @ollehellemaa4789

    8 жыл бұрын

    +isaacc7 correct, the proof of fermats theorem only gained so much attention mainly because no one has solved it for over 350 years. Andrew wiles proved the theorem by proving the conjucture which was a relatively new discovery that will have a greater impact on mathematics.

  • @thomaskember4628
    @thomaskember46285 жыл бұрын

    I was once asked to leave the Mitchell library, the main public library in Sydney, when I was discussing Fermat's Last Theorem with a friend. We were talking too loudly so we were both showen the exit.

  • @josephasghar
    @josephasghar2 жыл бұрын

    I just love this guy. Why couldn’t I have a maths teacher like this at school.

  • @Xanderqwerty123
    @Xanderqwerty1238 жыл бұрын

    Hot damn thats neat. My calc 3 teacher metioned this when we graphed a coil, but never explained how it was applied. I now want to know more about modularity.

  • @bemusedindian8571
    @bemusedindian85714 жыл бұрын

    This is awesome.

  • @3VILmonkey
    @3VILmonkey8 жыл бұрын

    That was explained really well. I just graduated architecture school and we spent a lot of time doing partis utilizing modulars and the variations they produce (think golden triangle), so maybe that's why the visuals you used explained it to me so well. Regardless, we'll done.

  • @TechXSoftware
    @TechXSoftware8 жыл бұрын

    What about Fermat's first theorem?

  • @cortster12

    @cortster12

    8 жыл бұрын

    +TechXSoftware Baby+food=shit.

  • @denisdaly1708
    @denisdaly17086 жыл бұрын

    I got that the proof entailed merging, or at least connecting, two different branches of mathematics and how one branch can soft of be represented in another. Also the proof hinged on a contradiction. Finally, the proof is actually very complicated and probably is best done by following the argument as trying to visualise what is going on is too mindbending. Is that the feeling I was supposed to get? I liked this video.

  • @TheNBKiller
    @TheNBKiller7 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing, the transition of a seemingly finite object or number to an infinite wave which loops back onto itself on a different plane... am I missing something, or completely wrong altogether?

  • @Bwern
    @Bwern8 жыл бұрын

    This guy is totally the real guy from numb3rs

  • @GaneshNayak
    @GaneshNayak8 жыл бұрын

    very well explained

  • @Egonkiller

    @Egonkiller

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Ganesh Nayak sarcasm?

  • @8ytan

    @8ytan

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Jack Freeman I don't think so. It was well explained, it's just a difficult subject.

  • @jamieg2427
    @jamieg24274 жыл бұрын

    Simon Pampena is one of my favorites.

  • @veggiet2009
    @veggiet20098 жыл бұрын

    The volume in the video seems kinda low

  • @EddSjo

    @EddSjo

    8 жыл бұрын

    seems pretty normal on my end.

  • @U014B

    @U014B

    8 жыл бұрын

    WHAT?

  • @trylaser10

    @trylaser10

    8 жыл бұрын

    +veggiet2009 then turn it up

  • @Graemyr

    @Graemyr

    8 жыл бұрын

    +veggiet2009 Some of its contents must have spilled between their end and yours. Be sure to mop it up, will you?

  • @PetraKann

    @PetraKann

    8 жыл бұрын

    +MichaelKingsfordGray professional software? must be right then

  • @swaggercr7
    @swaggercr78 жыл бұрын

    When is dr James grimes going to come back?

  • @suave319

    @suave319

    8 жыл бұрын

    +SwaggerCR7 when he has a new numbah to show us

  • @magicalpencil

    @magicalpencil

    8 жыл бұрын

    +SwaggerCR7 I'm pining for the G-man

  • @NickCybert

    @NickCybert

    8 жыл бұрын

    +SwaggerCR7 You can always go to his channel, singingbannana, if you're yearning for him.

  • @janopawski183

    @janopawski183

    8 жыл бұрын

    +SwaggerCR7 he has his own channel too (singingbanana)

  • @swaggercr7

    @swaggercr7

    8 жыл бұрын

    NickCybert thanks

  • @master_blizzard
    @master_blizzard8 жыл бұрын

    I don't know why but I just love how he says "now".

  • @clubberdang3955
    @clubberdang39552 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating

  • @arturia-leafgreen5127
    @arturia-leafgreen51278 жыл бұрын

    that's my attempt at a circle its not bad thanks man

  • @jonyb0b13
    @jonyb0b138 жыл бұрын

    I am doing my senior capstone on Fermat's Last Theorem. And this is basically what my capstone was about lol. This worked out perfectly.

  • @Dazbog373
    @Dazbog3732 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate this almost as much as I do the hyacinthine curls :D

  • @orthographiechecker820
    @orthographiechecker8205 жыл бұрын

    This is magical stuff.

  • @TheGamblermusic
    @TheGamblermusic8 жыл бұрын

    I almost understood what he said but that made me plenty happy

  • @_bender4143
    @_bender41438 жыл бұрын

    4:40 This must look so ridiculous for someone who doesn't know what is he trying to say...

  • @Graskian

    @Graskian

    5 жыл бұрын

    You made me laugh, thank you :D

  • @Callinder
    @Callinder8 жыл бұрын

    Of course the really infuriating thing is that Fermat made a note in the margin of his book where he stated this theorem which said that he had a proof but it wouldn't fit in the margin. Even Wiles said that even though he proved the theorem he still wondered what Fermat had done.

  • @lawrencecalablaster568
    @lawrencecalablaster5688 жыл бұрын

    This guy is brilliant :)

  • @StephenMortimer
    @StephenMortimer8 жыл бұрын

    I sit here and try to imagine my feeling if Simon was my grandson... would be lovely to have a chat with his grandfather !!

  • @Maxman013_
    @Maxman013_8 жыл бұрын

    3:21 That is an epic circle!

  • @nikhilwardrobe
    @nikhilwardrobe8 жыл бұрын

    I came here for answers but found none and found many questions

  • @denisdaly1708

    @denisdaly1708

    6 жыл бұрын

    X dark congratulations, you have reached the first stage of enlightenment.

  • @ItumelengS

    @ItumelengS

    5 жыл бұрын

    Listen to Denis

  • @LittlePeng9
    @LittlePeng98 жыл бұрын

    I don't think this was emphasised: circle is _not_ an elliptic curve.

  • @phuonghovan8092

    @phuonghovan8092

    8 жыл бұрын

    +LittlePeng9 yeah, im confuse too

  • @salmjak

    @salmjak

    5 жыл бұрын

    If I got the "heart" of the proof its that some curves can be represented by a modular form, even though the modular form exists in another plane/dimension.

  • @ARP2wefightforyou
    @ARP2wefightforyou6 жыл бұрын

    I love this guy.

  • @45640uberfreak
    @45640uberfreak8 жыл бұрын

    Please a video with more explanation, this looks really interesting but this video is really hard to understand with so little information

  • @In-N-Out333
    @In-N-Out3337 жыл бұрын

    Can anyone link me to an image of an elliptical curve that becomes a modular form? I'd really like to see how that 2d curve or 3d doughnut becomes a highly symmetrical object.

  • @EGarrett01
    @EGarrett018 жыл бұрын

    You lost me at 3:22 because I went to watch freehand circle drawing vids.

  • @metallsnubben

    @metallsnubben

    8 жыл бұрын

    +EGarrett01 You just made a (probably unintentional) far-fetched joke for people who play DotA 2, just so you know ;)

  • @BoyWithBike

    @BoyWithBike

    8 жыл бұрын

    +metallsnubben I am dota 2 player and didn't understand the joke. Could you explain it please

  • @metallsnubben

    @metallsnubben

    8 жыл бұрын

    I see You! Have you heard about 322? It's basically about how some half famous player lost a game on purpose because he bet against himself on betting sites, which earned him 322$ apparently but for understandable reasons got him banned from further competition. So "322" has become an in-joke in the DotA community that you use when someone makes a really bad mistake, sort of jokingly implying that the only way you could screw up that bad was by doing it on purpose. So that's why "you lost me at 3.22" could kinda be thought of as a dota joke :) It's not really something that you see a whole lot in-game, it's more common if one watches pro games or read forums such as the dota 2 subreddit and such

  • @xenon9562

    @xenon9562

    8 жыл бұрын

    +metallsnubben Lol Seriously?

  • @BoyWithBike

    @BoyWithBike

    8 жыл бұрын

    metallsnubben Yeah I've heard about it but I didn't linked the comment with it. I guess I am getting rusty

  • @AlexanderBachmann
    @AlexanderBachmann8 жыл бұрын

    There goes my hero. He's ordinaaaaryyyy!!!!! ;) Great video! Great guy.

  • @Hecatonicosachoron
    @Hecatonicosachoron8 жыл бұрын

    Reading the title I thought the video would be about the pedal curves of Lamé curves - so I got excited as Lamé curves are among the best things that exist - but alas no geometry for today. Still, interesting video.

  • @arpyzero
    @arpyzero8 жыл бұрын

    Aw, you could have at least shown an example of an elliptic curve to extend the concept slightly.

  • @briangreen3496

    @briangreen3496

    8 жыл бұрын

    A elliptic curve is a circle

  • @jdhalligan

    @jdhalligan

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Brian Green it's not though, Google it

  • @eeshan3955

    @eeshan3955

    7 жыл бұрын

    a circle is an elliptic curve*

  • @ruroruro

    @ruroruro

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@eeshan3955 it's not though, Google it Like seriously. A circle is an *ellipse*, not an elliptic *curve*. Those are completely different things.

  • @hybmnzz2658

    @hybmnzz2658

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@briangreen3496 no

  • @43labontepetty
    @43labontepetty Жыл бұрын

    We have Ron Graham explaining Graham’s number. We have Neil Sloane explaining many of the great things he’s had a hand in. We need Andrew Wyles going through Fermat’s last theorem.

  • @chrissidiras
    @chrissidiras8 жыл бұрын

    This is awesome, but still a lot confusing. Please make more videos on Fermat's last theorem!!! What exactly is a modural???

  • @bluespartan3000
    @bluespartan30008 жыл бұрын

    He was having way too much fun playing with that circle.

  • @Merrida100
    @Merrida1007 жыл бұрын

    Brady, I like how excited you get: "Like a SLINKY!!" :) .......PS: The volume's been low on your videos lately.....

  • @nicolasblackburnca
    @nicolasblackburnca8 жыл бұрын

    I'm trying to grasp the intuition of it and tying it with words I know, in a very informal manner. Does a modular form has some relevance with modules? Also, we say 1-form (linear form), 2-form (bilinear form), etc. for linear transformations, bilinear transformations, etc. Does a modular form is to a module, what a linear form is to a vector space?

  • @thej3799
    @thej3799 Жыл бұрын

    I see you man nicely provided by brown paper I love it I love you guys 💗

  • @commentfromnitya
    @commentfromnitya8 ай бұрын

    this thinking is what I call maths. Otherwise most people think what a grocery shopkeeper does is maths

  • @BuleriaChk
    @BuleriaChk20 күн бұрын

    Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for Village Idiots (works for the case of n=2 as well) To show: c^n a^n + b^n for all natural numbers, a,b,c,n, n >1 c = a + b c^n = (a + b)^n = [a^n + b^n] + f(a,b,n) Binomial Expansion c^n = [a^n + b^n] iff f(a,b,n) = 0 f(a,b,n) 0 c^n [a^n + b^n] QED n=2 "rectangular coordinates" c^2 = a^2 + b^2 + 2ab Note that 2ab = 4[(1/2)ab] represents the areas of four right triangles) "radial coordinates" Lete p:= pi, n= 2 multiply by pi pc^2 = pa^2 + pb^2 + p2ab Note that pc^2, pa^2, and pb^2 represent areas of circles, wile p2ab = a(2pb) is the product of a radius (a) and a circumference (2pb). This proof also works for multi-nomial functions. Note: every number is prime relative to its own base: a = a(a/a) = a(1_a) a + a = 2a (Godbach's Conjecture (now Theorem.... :) (Wiles' proof) used modular functions defined on the upper half of the complex plane. Trying to equate the two models is trying to square the circle. c = a + ib c* - a - ib cc* = a^2 + b^2 #^2 But #^2 = [cc*] +[2ab] = [a^2 + b^2] + [2ab] so complex numbers are irrelevant. Note: there are no positive numbers: - c = a-b, b>a iff b-c = a, a + 0 = a, a-a=0, a+a =2a Every number is prime relative to its own base: n = n(n/n), n + n = 2n (Goldbach) 1^2 1 (Russell's Paradox) In particular the group operation of multiplication requires the existence of both elements as a precondition, meaning there is no such multiplication as a group operation) (Clifford Algebras are much ado about nothing) Remember, you read it here first) There is much more to this story, but I don't have the spacetime to write it here.

  • @ScottEltringhamMusic
    @ScottEltringhamMusic8 жыл бұрын

    The best guy at numberphile

  • @duckymomo7935

    @duckymomo7935

    8 жыл бұрын

    Not grimes or the other guy(he did largest prime video)? These 3 are the best imo

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