The Mathematics Used to Solve Crime
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Hey guys, as someone pointed out there's a small error at 9:57. When the extra edge is added there's actually 4 total shortest paths (not 3). So the betweenness score would go down to 1/2 instead of 2/3. Just wanted to clear that up!
@anishnehete
5 жыл бұрын
are limited (for good colleges). You have told me the similarities between mechanical and aerospace and other fields and after watching 20-30 of your vids i finally know what to do in life.thanks for showing me a way👌. Hope u be successful in life
@anishnehete
5 жыл бұрын
@MajorPrep bro even u have inspired me to do aerospace engineer,but the seats here in India are limited (for good colleges). You have told me the similarities between mechanical and aerospace and other fields and after watching 20-30 of your vids i finally know what to do in life.thanks for showing me a way👌. Hope u be successful in life.
@VincentDoesThings
5 жыл бұрын
What is the name of those connection graphs? I would like to be able to make my own.
@hyperhektor7733
4 жыл бұрын
but what i a criminal uses this knowledge?
@Minskpotato
4 жыл бұрын
1+1=2
Please do now a Mathematics used to comit crime
@letao12
5 жыл бұрын
1. Use a good random number generator to select your target 2. Do not contact people from disparate social groups or have too many contacts when planning your crime 3. Simulate your alibi using a proper physics engine and stage the scene accordingly
@poopcatapult2623
5 жыл бұрын
Martin S you mean finance?
@fanimeproductionst.v.3735
5 жыл бұрын
@@letao12 I'm calling the fucking cops
@tensor5113
5 жыл бұрын
Step 1: Make the perfect pentagram to summon the devil, geometry is needed. Step 2: Sell Soul Step 3: Profit
@fanimeproductionst.v.3735
5 жыл бұрын
@@poopcatapult2623 hahahaha
As an ex-con majoring in Math I find this hilarious. I'm picturing a commanding officer saying "ok team, here's the plan: p¡,j= k Σ [ Φij/term₁ + (1-Φij)(ʙʳ⁻ʷ)/term₂ ] ok? Any questions?"
@TheHurricaneEA
2 жыл бұрын
ROFL! Thank you this made my day!!
So, in case you want to commit a crime and not get caught: 1. Learn some math and criminalistics 2. Get a math PhD, and use your knowledge to reverse those formulas to your advantage 3. Fall in love with math 4. Now you don't want to commit a crime, neither you have time for that 5. You are satisfied an not caught
@solo6264
4 жыл бұрын
How about just commiting the crime, leave no traces, and then when your done move out the country.
@solo6264
4 жыл бұрын
I would say master a field, not fall in love
@CZghost
4 жыл бұрын
@@solo6264 Pretty much. Altough, leaving no traces is VERY difficult. You leave traces even just being online, and you don't even need to commit any crime. Remember that your computer has an IP address and even though you use a VPN (hiding your real IP), it is still possible to track it down. So if you're thinking of commiting a cybercrime, think twice, maybe more. Is it really worth it? Are your skills and knowledge good enough to fool the best security experts out there? Different example: Don't forget that there are a lot of people on the world. Even if you live somewhere far from civilization, you're still somehow connected to everyone. Chances are that when you commit a crime, there's going to be at least one witness. People tend to follow some patterns when travelling, walking, etc. Those patterns could be quite easily observed, and once you know the pattern, it's kind of easier to predict next move. You can even see that with old videogames. They've been programmed with certain patterns in mind. And that's not because in past it was due to limitation of memory and the instruction set of the processors. The patterns were intentional, so players would have it easier to play the game. Some players observed the patterns and learned to play and master the game. Those players were winning championships in arcades.
@informationparadox387
4 жыл бұрын
@@CZghost Are you in a police department?😅😛
@KBdotHAQ
3 жыл бұрын
Lol interesting but detectives catch criminals without math just fine with logic. I guess math could help some detectives who don't have those same skills.
TV series coming next summer: NYPhD
@jfly609
5 жыл бұрын
xnick niiice😂👍
@Shadoufang
3 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha! Lol-ing before bedtime here!
@AjayKumar-fd9mv
3 жыл бұрын
Lol 👍
Bro just get your math PhD I know you want to.
@osmosisjones4912
5 жыл бұрын
Can stop believing Women and used evidence calculation details try piece together what happened. It might require some victim blaming.trying figure out what happened
@davidcooper2589
5 жыл бұрын
@@osmosisjones4912 ?
@plaguedoct0r
5 жыл бұрын
Oi! Shut up! He'll stop making videos if he does that!
@MrMattydavee
5 жыл бұрын
Plague Doctor selfish!
@Chris_FMS_Redfield
5 жыл бұрын
@@osmosisjones4912 BUT MATH IS A SEXIST RACIST HOMOPHOBIC TRANSPHOBIC CONSTRUCT OF WHITE MEN!
I studied graph theory in my computer engineering classes, and it is soooo fun to whatch this video, i can not wait to show it to my teachers and classmates.
The problem is . Math is never taught this way....it's taught in such a way that there's no clear relationship of it ,with real world phenomena and thus, it's seems so hard..if this is how math formulas are taught, with deduction of a real event in the world in a mathematical way to the arrival of the formula ,I'm pretty sure we would all appreciate it.. otherwise the professor will come in class, call the variables some names and make you cram that formula... Those who are good at cramming will pass those who aren't will fail... if asked to explain the math in a real world situation it's hard for you..but you know the formula but not how to use it
@noobless6627
5 жыл бұрын
underrated comment lol
@taumil3239
5 жыл бұрын
I was kinda lucky I guess, because in my studies some professors made me realize how math is much more empirical and practical than I thought, though it didnt help me much lol
@jaymekaundun7433
5 жыл бұрын
If you're wise enough, you can use that math knowledge to analyse anything bc math exists everywhere. If math wasn't taught in a good way euler, einstein, hawking and newton would never discover so many ground breaking theories proved to be true in any field in this world.
@tudornaconecinii3609
5 жыл бұрын
This is a false dichotomy. You can teach math in a way that is interesting, intuitive, and deductive rather than based on pure memorization WITHOUT having to use real world analogies or examples at all. Here's two extreme examples to illustrate my point, let me know which style of teaching would make it easier for you: 1. "Hi, kids, today we will learn about integrals, one of the two main operations in calculus. They are used a lot in real life to, for example, measure the areas and volumes of irregularly shaped objects, which is extremely useful in architecture. We can achieve these things with the following formulas. Start memorizing them now." 2. "Hi, kids, today we will learn about integrals, which are the areas bounded by the graph of a given function. We will discover how finite concepts can arise from adding together infinitesimal data, both through calculations as well as some cool visual representations I brought from home, and prove together a bunch of formulas building up from base axioms. Integrals also have real life applications but I'll let you look those up on your own time." Now don't get me wrong. I don't have anything against applied mathematics *per se* (and while I don't see how practical applications make it that much easier to understand the underlying math, I definitely CAN see how being informed of the existence of practical applications makes you more motivated to want to learn). I'm just saying that a shit teacher is a shit teacher, regardless of how the course content is structured.
@arnaud78
4 жыл бұрын
@@tudornaconecinii3609 It appears to me that you discredited Dennis's statement and then basically agreed with it. 😉 Though as you say it isn't necessary to know real world applications, it certainly makes a massive difference as to how much a student values and enjoys the learning, which directly affects how well they absorb and retain it. That was certainly my experience as an engineering student.
Math is the best thing that ever happened to this world, I love your videos. Could please do a video on Computational Mathematics?
@JoseLopez-hh6fp
5 жыл бұрын
Math is the only thing that has ever happened.
@justaguy6544
5 жыл бұрын
Deeeeeep....@@JoseLopez-hh6fp
@Shotgunz999
5 жыл бұрын
math hasnt happened. it was already there waiting to be discovered ;)
Ah yes good advice next time I decide to do mass crimes I'll use a computer to randomize my target area ty
@Sluppie
5 жыл бұрын
You could totally troll this logic by picking a random house you don't live at and choosing your crime scenes as if you lived there.
@richardwieder885
5 жыл бұрын
The gaming community has a answer to that: the D20 (twenty sided dice)
I am a criminal and thanx for the video. I will mess this equation by stealing in another city.
I literally thought of a "random number"... I chose 17
6:12 The night's sky is clustered because of gravity as well, not just because of randomness!!!!
@cyrilv1703
4 жыл бұрын
One of the most underrated comments!
This is a video for people who claim math has no real life use, and they you won't get any real life appliance from learning such equations
@Hojokillerzzzz
5 жыл бұрын
Yo dude, I totally agree with you! I hate this claim! Theres this girl at my school who has difficulties in math... so she asked for help, i went there and explained the best i could. It was difficult explaining 'cause she didnt understand basic, like reaaaal basic, algebra.... then when she didnt understand after my explanations, she went on a rant about 'how is this even going to help me, when and why would i use this kind of maths in my life' That irritated me so bad lol.. Anyway, srry for long comment :/ Again, i share your opinion ! ;)
@januszkurahenowski2860
5 жыл бұрын
@@Hojokillerzzzz I wasn't too good at math, just good enough to get on a non math related universities. And despite I was never good at it, I knew that saying that it's useless is nonsense. Maybe if you are planning to dig holes in the ground, but it's very important if you want to be a well rounded university student. Also you need it if you want to go further, to mechanics, physics, architecture, chemistry and even as seen here solving crime or explaining some natural phenomenons. In my country the university is free, but 20% of people fail international math exams and are upset about it. If you can't pass it at 30% maybe you aren't fit to study medicine or law for free, if you want to (almost) everybody can do it
@frankchen4229
3 жыл бұрын
@@Hojokillerzzzz i remember in 2011 when everyone was complaining about involving the alphabet in basic middle or high school algebra and i just wouldn't get whats so difficult for them
so if u don't want to get caught use the formula and stay out of the region. YUP THATS HOW CRIMINALS WORK. Edit: Video was fascinating.
@Yatukih_001
5 жыл бұрын
They work differently. The ones you are talking about let themselves become elected by idiot fucktards. These same idiot fucktards then believe everything they tell them. If you want to stop people you think are criminals you have to reverse everything you see on TV, and make sure that you do not elect anyone you are not sure about. The elected ones do not need to hide themselves behind numbers. They use these numbers as symbols in their work.
@donlansdonlans3363
5 жыл бұрын
I doubt most regular criminals know about the formula
@victortrinh2208
5 жыл бұрын
@@donlansdonlans3363 unless they're watching this video and there are some good criminals out there that plan and do research. Most are pretty stupid, though.
@zeroT720
4 жыл бұрын
Its not that simple. To do that, you would have to pick places that you would want to commit the crime at. By doing that and avoiding them, you're gonna use a pattern guided by the formula and not randomness. The less random your actions the more predictable they become
Me an Intellectual After watching this Video Commits Robbery in my own house.
These types of videos honestly make me wanna actually revise for my maths exam you make maths so much more interesting and every other subject you do keep up the good work im really enjoying these videos
The effort that went into this & the result of it is Pretty F**king Cool!
Thank you so much! Your interesting applications of math have allowed me to make so many research papers!
This is by far my most favorite video in your channel please more like this!
This is madly interesting! I've always hated maths as a subject in school but this approach makes it fascinating even for me
This video has inspired me to study Calculus lol. Really loving your videos recently, very interesting topics plus good jokes, just perfect 👌
@cesareborgia9259
5 жыл бұрын
898yoyo Calculus? This looks like a discrete case, you need to look into probability theory. Granted, you need integration for continuous probability problems, but this isn’t one of them.
@destinyovbiebo8988
5 жыл бұрын
898yoyo that’s what I’m doing now.
@ginismoja2459
5 жыл бұрын
Same but from KZread tutorials lol
@huseynhasanov8162
4 жыл бұрын
By the way if you want to learn coding too, make sure to watch indian guys tutorial videos.
I love these math videos. Well done and keep up the great work.
At 10:06, there are 4 shortest paths; there is a path through the vertex adjacent(after the introduction of new edge) to A and vertex adjacent to John.
@zachstar
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Pinned a comment correcting that.
This is one of the best videos in the last months. Very good video really liked it, didn't know anything about this. Pretty interestering.
Your channel is awesome aha, I love these type of videos. It reignites my passion for math.
Please keep videos like these up, super interesting
John is that one guy who sells 'stuff' in the school...
Very nice !!! Thank you!
Using graph theory to see the "ring leader" of a group is fascinating! Never thought of that before.
Love this video and the person's voice. Made me fall more in love with math.
I've learned more from watching 2 of your videos than I did in my entire 4th and 5th grade science classes.
@Freedom-cr8jz
5 жыл бұрын
R. M. Tosh it’s probably not your teachers fault, it’s primarily down to your attitude to learning.
@RyanTosh
5 жыл бұрын
@@Freedom-cr8jz No; I'm just stating that I have learned more from 2 videos than from those two science classes back then.
Yooooo, i just watched 3 of your videos and I must say: You have some really fun, educative, interesting content! Wooow, i just subbed and Keep 'em coming! You're entertaining AND informative! It is really fun listening to your videos
Thankx for this video, I recently started learning probability and your video will keep me motivative
Awesome!! Truly fascinating.
You have THE MOST UNDEREATED youtube channel. Well done !
We need more imaginary number videos since it is an area more obscure then it should be. Residue theorem seems so magical sometimes-
This channel deserves over a million views
I was going to say hey that sounds like the pilot episode of Numb3ers! Also, on the dots, there was an episode where he asked everyone in the room to stand in a random place. They all did so, and he pointed out how unrandom they actually were because there were no clusters. The woman FBI agent whose name is escaping me at the moment then observed "we're spread out too evenly."
Thanks a lot for amazing videos!
I can easily recall more than 5 serialcrimes committed by the next door neighbor, and hundreds of serialcrimes commited by someone from the next town, or even from the next state....where this method wouldn't help, it would just confuse the case. A criminal, not very bright, robbed all houses in his street within a couple of months, when the police wondered why a single home in the street was not robbed.....
What a video! Pure gold!
Can you add references in the description, please? For those of us who want to read more? Thanks!
This video is so interesting!
One video watched and BOOM .... Subscribed!!
6:34 This really reminded me of the book Gravity's Rainbow; this book made me like statistics.
Seems like an episode of Numb3rs. Nice keep up the good things.
Fascinating video!
That spinning globe next to your computer is from Wish!! Busted lol.
My Math Stats teacher showed this video in class a couple weeks ago. Had to watch it again because I couldn't be satisfied with the one viewing.
Very interesting video!
Math + Law = GREATNESS AND EXCELLENCE!!!!
This is so interesting! I'm rlly intrigued by Rossmos's equation, and I might use it for my IB Math Project. Do you know other videos that explain the concept more in depth?
@siddharthsahu2101
Жыл бұрын
Yo… this would be perfect for an IA/EE! Did you end up using this topic?
This is a good video. I lost a friend to murder and so it is a good thing to watch videos like this cause if people go missing and so on you can use them to find these missing people. So hey thank you!!
My favorite video to date!!
This types of videos are dope.
Very interesting thanks. The hot zone should be a doughnut shape not shown in first illustration but can see it in the actual heat map you generate.
10:43 - Looks like my score at school was always zero. On the bright side, no one would be able to trace me down. Liked and subscribed anyway!
It's just amazing!
Thank you, Markoolio!
Love your videos: You're great!
Just loved it....
I read about the in-betweenness thing in Narconomics! The application there is on law enforcement for catching drug dealers. The author suggests that instead of wasting time and effort on catching the lowest level street dealers, police should focus their attention on the wholesalers or middlemen: they likely knew the most smugglers and the best dealers. Also, often times drugs are shared between friends and families, so there should be public health and legislative efforts to discourage this kind of behaviors.
Your videos are the most interesting I’ve seen on KZread so fwr
This is really interesting! !
This video is simply.... Brilliant
Interesting and informative video. It is worth noting that although many gifted mathematicians go to work for the NSA, many of the most gifted mathematicians go to work for hedge funds and the like. Google also used to employ many gifted mathematicians.
Amazing and really frightening.
Very well explained.
This was an excellent video
Amazing video!
I love your videos!
Your videos are so amazing man.. big fan
Please make a series for Calculus!!
Cool videos bro keep them coming.....
I love your videos so much
Nice ill play around this on my next crime...
how did you just teach me math better than my actual professors
This reminds me of the old show " Numbers "
12:25 This is a partially incorrect information: although it's true that the angle it's the most important factor in determining the shape of a blood stain, element such as the texture and wettability of the surface of contact or even the drop velocity, drastically impact the final result.
Did this video make anyone realize how much of a visual learner they are? I fully understand that equation cause of some good editing and arrows lol. Great video
I am so frustrated that I can't give more then one like to a video.
Interesting application of mathematics.
I felt like I was John in high school, pretty smart and nerdy but also loved exercise and played lots of sports. Also just made friends with everyone in different groups
I get so motivated after watching your videos then remember that my brain is too slow for this
as someone who is considering becoming a stats major this is sooooooo incredibly cool!!!!!!!
Learned the basics of graph theory in my Linear Algebra class. I can't wait to study Mathematics for Computer Sciences in 2nd year of college 😍, in which I'll learn graphs, trees, etc.
Love the music
Amazing video my man. Keep it up. I'm curious, are there graph node softwares available online, which I could use for a project of mine. I have a lot of data, and I'm not sure I'll be able to calculate it by hand.
@zachstar
5 жыл бұрын
I looked up that exact thing and couldn't find anything. I really didn't want to manually do all this for the video which is why I searched but I personally couldn't find something for free. Granted, I didn't look that hard (really skimmed page 1 of a single google search) so very possible there is something there.
Awesome video
Now make a video on the crime used to solve maths!
lets make this topic into a series!
Dude, you really make me want to learn group theory.
Time to personally test out his equation
awesome reminds me of electrons probability cloud
Excellent
Video liks this make me appreciate math a lot more
You have awesome enunciation.
When you had the random number graph between humans and computers literally said 17 in my head
I was watching pulp fiction scene when this vod popped up in my notification bar... holy shit