If you're struggling to imagine 11D oranges, a nice trick is to just imagine 12D oranges and then project them onto an 11D space. Hope that helps!
"heres the coordinates. just look at that, and imagine it in 11 dimentions." as a physics student, this sums up how i feel in my math lectures
We need to fund this guy to go on more vacations so we can get even more math discoveries
I was having problems imagining 593 11D spheres, but thankfully you provided the exact coordinates I needed!
"Eureka! I've got it! I've finally got it!" sheds a tear "Matt Parker is on vacation too! Just perfect! We publish today, yes"
How to make a new math discovery tutorial: 1: Convince Matt to go on vacation 2: The laws of physics now require at least 1 big math discovery be made 3: Enjoy your math
Worth pointing out that 4x4 matrix multiplications are super important for computer graphics, which is why 4x4 in particular is highlighhted. (This might have an impact on hardware design, in fact.)
Great to see matrix multiplication gets so much attention! I am working in a research project that is on exactly this problem, minimizing the number of multiplication steps in matrix multiplication. We improved it for 5x5 and 6x6 matrices just recently which is why AlphaEvolve could only claim 4x4. I did not believe that an improvement for 4x4 was even possible.
The 17 square packing is truly a nightmare. You should cover it for sure
5:55 Life Pro Tip: You can watch the 11-dimensional coordinates scrolling by at half speed. Makes it easier to imagine the kissing hyperspheres if you're not fast enough!
What you're telling us is that the reason new mathematics is developed so slowly is that you don't take enough vacations.
Interviewer: "As the person who solved the Riemann Hypothesis with an elegant 1-page proof, what do you attribute your breakthrough to?" Person: "Well, It just wouldn't have been possible, but then Matt Parker retired and it appeared to me in a vision."
00:37 Past and current Matt do a little clap together!
Things I learnt: 1. Matt's videographer has a shorter left leg than right. 2. Matt can compensate for this idiosyncrasy by leaning in the opposite direction... or 3. the horizon in WA is strangely off-centre and we should do something about this (perhaps it was the cause of the bicycle accident).
I'm disappointed. You didn't announce all of those at once, there was clearly a 2-3 second delay between each announcement at the start of the video
Can't believe Matt is such a big name in the field that Google waits for his vacations to post
so many breakthroughs, even your wrist got one
Never in my life have i recieved an instruction as outlandish as "Imagine 593 11-dimensional oranges"
"Babe, wake up. A new pi digit calculation record just dropped!"
@standupmaths