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  • Partitions are a major part of the Ramanujan story (as shown in the new film about his life) - but what are they?
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    Dr James Grime tackles the issue.
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  • @SendyTheEndless
    @SendyTheEndless 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2083

    What's even more impressive about Ramanujan's achievement is that he didn't have the benefit of having Duplo to hand.

    • @db1595
      @db1595 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      This made my day :)

    • @kittyrules
      @kittyrules 8 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      +SquareWaveHeaven just dont step on it

    • @alephnull4044
      @alephnull4044 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Pretty sure he must have. Come on, I know the guy was a genius but he was still human.

    • @orsonzedd
      @orsonzedd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      *Megablok, he is lying to you

    • @orsonzedd
      @orsonzedd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Jace Wright I have Euler in my heart, you can't get me devil spawn!

  • @jim42078
    @jim42078 5 ปีที่แล้ว +602

    "How many Christmas cards does Ramanujan have to send?"
    "Infinitely many, but at least he can count them all."

    • @murtazahamid6141
      @murtazahamid6141 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      He sent -1/12 cards

    • @antrixsharma3476
      @antrixsharma3476 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      He sent none, he was Hindu lol

    • @lucknowstudy8086
      @lucknowstudy8086 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Alex ask Galileo who was killed

    • @koro-sensei9783
      @koro-sensei9783 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@antrixsharma3476 lol

    • @brendawilliams8062
      @brendawilliams8062 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@murtazahamid6141 I wonder where his heart was? I am sure he debated the 1 and5 card.

  • @euttdsiggh2783
    @euttdsiggh2783 8 ปีที่แล้ว +976

    even if I dont understand 98% of things he talks about, i just love his enthusiasm

    • @jackbean213
      @jackbean213 8 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      The language of mathematics is like listening to a beautiful Latin language. I like listening to French and Italian despite my ability to understand most of it.

    • @jaiskreno
      @jaiskreno 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Батрић Гарић I ja isto! Obožavam

    • @crustyoldfart
      @crustyoldfart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Aye he really seems to loove his noombers.

    • @mohammedayankhan4497
      @mohammedayankhan4497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I understand all that.

    • @chicapercebe
      @chicapercebe 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      haha yes

  • @Azivegu
    @Azivegu 8 ปีที่แล้ว +852

    college text books often have the best footnotes because you can really see how people slowly become delirious after spending hundreds of hours going through them and writing it.

    • @jeroenverschaeve3090
      @jeroenverschaeve3090 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Azivegu I know right xD

    • @shadowbane7401
      @shadowbane7401 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Your profile picture is upside down and in a mirror

    • @thomaskaldahl196
      @thomaskaldahl196 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@shadowbane7401 non-ironic fun fact, in mathematics an upside down capital A placed in front of a variable represents that the formula that follows applies *for all* values of that variable.
      example: (∀x)(x+1>x) means "for all possible values of x, x plus one is greater than x."

    • @MrMctastics
      @MrMctastics 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      (Opening lines of "States of Matter", by D.L. Goodstein).
      Ludwig Boltzman, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

    • @centralprocessingunit2564
      @centralprocessingunit2564 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thomaskaldahl196 thank you I've wondered what that upside down A meant

  • @2bsirius
    @2bsirius 8 ปีที่แล้ว +254

    I'm reading *The Man Who Knew Infinity* right now. The depth of mathematical exploration in the book is more complex than the superficial depiction in the film, and it provides the extra complexity of human relations between Hardy, Littlewood and others involved in Ramanujan's life.

    • @stt9379
      @stt9379 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      #÷#^=

    • @gordontaylor2815
      @gordontaylor2815 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      +2b Sirius Well, there's only SO much that can be fit in a movie...

    • @EGarrett01
      @EGarrett01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The book also has a lot of boring and unnecessary detail, like a huge digression about the Tripos exam system in the UK.

    • @centralprocessingunit2564
      @centralprocessingunit2564 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      what did the book say about ramanujan or his genius?

    • @EGarrett01
      @EGarrett01 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Grian Brant Yeah, and Ramanujan neither fought in the war nor took the Tripos.

  • @ThatoneLich
    @ThatoneLich 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1505

    pi keeps showing up in the strangest places.

    • @ThatoneLich
      @ThatoneLich 8 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      I know, pi is just magic

    • @Reluxthelegend
      @Reluxthelegend 8 ปีที่แล้ว +169

      +That one Lich Did you just agree with yourself? O.o

    • @ThatoneLich
      @ThatoneLich 8 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      +Relux the Relux As opposed to disagreeing with myself? Or did you not catch the comment I was replying to

    • @Reluxthelegend
      @Reluxthelegend 8 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      LOL for some reason the other comment didn't loas when I commented, thought you had replied to yourself. XD

    • @ThatoneLich
      @ThatoneLich 8 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      +Relux the Relux I bet it was pi again

  • @mewr11
    @mewr11 7 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    my favorite textbook footnote is from UW Math 234: "This is known as the 'sushi principle' - Raw data is better than cooked data"

    • @OwlRTA
      @OwlRTA 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      UW as in University of Waterloo?

    • @Ejlipasti
      @Ejlipasti 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      TheSasukeOwl university of Wisconsin I imagine

    • @danielquintero2339
      @danielquintero2339 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Isaac Galang v

    • @PromptedHawk
      @PromptedHawk 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That has to be a jab at a colleague.

    • @magno5157
      @magno5157 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I highly disagree. Grilled eel sushi tastes sooo much better than raw sushi.

  • @ffanatic13
    @ffanatic13 8 ปีที่แล้ว +281

    I find it interesting that Einstein and boss were working on a physics problem closely related to partitions around the same time as hardy and ramanujan.

    • @MrAB-wf5sf
      @MrAB-wf5sf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Then who is Einstein here .

    • @shambosaha9727
      @shambosaha9727 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Agraj AnujBose, but boss works just as well

    • @EGarrett01
      @EGarrett01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@shambosaha9727 "Bose, but boss works just as well" Not when you're working with Einstein in the 1910's.

    • @shambosaha9727
      @shambosaha9727 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@EGarrett01 I would like to point out that Bose did most of the work, but, ya know... controversial issue.

    • @EGarrett01
      @EGarrett01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@shambosaha9727 Seems like everyone is convinced someone else actually did Einstein's work.

  • @eoghan.5003
    @eoghan.5003 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I'm a simple person who knows nothing about maths but watches numberphile. I see James Grime, Lego, and Ramanujan - I click.

  • @Seanyt2sd
    @Seanyt2sd 8 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    "Don't do it - you'll be sorry" on a science textbook explaining reproductive systems

  • @naedolor
    @naedolor 8 ปีที่แล้ว +409

    Jack! Draw me like one of your french partitions.

    • @JanStrojil
      @JanStrojil 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Nae Dolor I was just about to post that and then decided to check if someone else already thought of it. :)

    • @ardenvarley-twyman8352
      @ardenvarley-twyman8352 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Jack? Who's Jack?

    • @SlipperyTeeth
      @SlipperyTeeth 8 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Upside down and in a mirror?

    • @JimmyLundberg
      @JimmyLundberg 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I guess in this version it'd be Jacques.

    • @mariakhan6090
      @mariakhan6090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ardenvarley-twyman8352 Jack from Titanic, man 😂

  • @Formulka
    @Formulka 8 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    damn, Ramanujan died way too young :(

    • @vinayvekaria3400
      @vinayvekaria3400 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What could he have done if he lived longer?

    • @mokshbaweja6555
      @mokshbaweja6555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@vinayvekaria3400 he had a book of formulas that were not proven when he died so who knows what else....

    • @sinpi314
      @sinpi314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@vinayvekaria3400 we don’t know. He passed away too young.

    • @brendawilliams8062
      @brendawilliams8062 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A child genius may find that ata certain age the normal others caught up with him at 30. Who knows?

    • @DendrocnideMoroides
      @DendrocnideMoroides ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brendawilliams8062 how on earth can that happen

  • @Aryan_Sanan
    @Aryan_Sanan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I have seen Ramanaujan handwritten notes and O dear this man freaked me out. He was living in a different parallel universe

  • @ofentsetshepe
    @ofentsetshepe 8 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    i just finished watching the movie now about Ramanujan...i had to come here ..

    • @karanveersingh9634
      @karanveersingh9634 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      same here

    • @aneek7287
      @aneek7287 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you liked it?

    • @ofentsetshepe
      @ofentsetshepe 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      i loved it

    • @Anonymous-rs6qi
      @Anonymous-rs6qi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      same haha, i didn't find my phone so i used my sister's computer to look for it.

    • @theCogentIntrovert
      @theCogentIntrovert 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm now going to watch the movie lol

  • @Cyrusislikeawsome
    @Cyrusislikeawsome 8 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    OMG I love Ramanujan so much

    • @brendawilliams8062
      @brendawilliams8062 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A hero is what he was to his cultural heritages.

  • @robin888official
    @robin888official 8 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    I *do* have a favorite footnote, actually. :-)
    Bernard Hoëcker began his first book with a footnote (even before the first word).
    It said that this footnote only existed because he just learned he could do begin a book with a footnote. :-)
    So even the book wasn't about mathematics at all it was a nice self-reference, which is always cool. :-)

    • @cube2fox
      @cube2fox 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Someone should write a book entirely consisting of footnotes. It would probably have a tree structure. :)

    • @leo17921
      @leo17921 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@cube2fox i think you started watching numberphile like 3 days ago and fyi its a great channel :) also i like how your profile picture comes from mario maker 2

    • @cube2fox
      @cube2fox 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@leo17921 Hmm, why do you think that? :D I also like your fire Mario profile picture. :)

    • @leo17921
      @leo17921 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cube2fox cause in most numberphile videos i watched i see a comment from you from a few days ago

    • @cube2fox
      @cube2fox 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@leo17921 Haha, actually I know the channel for several years, but recently my TH-cam decided to start recommending them again.

  • @888SpinR
    @888SpinR 8 ปีที่แล้ว +675

    There's a movie about this? Wow! Hope it won't be a Parker square of a movie!

    • @thoperSought
      @thoperSought 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      888SpinR
      yeah, truly.

    • @achu11th
      @achu11th 8 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Most movie about famous people are parker squared usually I guess. Let us hope for the best.
      Next movie about a famous mathematician should be about Parker himself and his parker square.
      Title suggestions: giving things a go- a parker square of an autobiography
      An almost perfect prequel - the success of a parker square
      Matt parker- the mascott of parker square.

    • @gizatsby
      @gizatsby 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +achu11th (parker)^2

    • @taba1950
      @taba1950 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      the parcker square deserve more recognition

    • @achu11th
      @achu11th 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Almujtaba Osama there should be a place called parker square square or something which shows the amount of recognition it deserves. It definitely needs more recognition, you are right.

  • @Hecatonicosachoron
    @Hecatonicosachoron 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The partition function, along with the sum of partitions and the permutations of partitions, is probably my favourite function in all of number theory. It's just so useful!

  • @Kaesekuchen002
    @Kaesekuchen002 8 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    My favorite footnote was in a mathematics book in first year of my bachelor study. It was about shear matrices and showed a picture of a sheep and a deformed sheep, calling it a "sheared sheep". I found that pretty funny ._.

    • @sayandas5
      @sayandas5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was it Lang? I think I saw that picture too!

  • @pri7974
    @pri7974 8 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    You need to post more videos with James Grime.
    Epic video as usual btw.

    • @DrEvil-uw1ju
      @DrEvil-uw1ju 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      +Priyadarshini M James Grimes is my favorite, not only is he brilliant, but his enthusiasm draws me in and makes me care about the things.

    • @JugglingGamer
      @JugglingGamer 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Dr. Evil (Hjalte Hørsdal) Agreed! He definitely has a way of explaining things that people can appreciate.

  • @babaopizza
    @babaopizza 8 ปีที่แล้ว +409

    6:07 imagine going to vacation with your infinite number of friends. What hotel would you choose ? I wonder if a mathematician thought about that ?

    • @AAA-kt4nn
      @AAA-kt4nn 8 ปีที่แล้ว +214

      Hilbert's infinite hotel

    • @AAA-kt4nn
      @AAA-kt4nn 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      ez

    • @thesage1096
      @thesage1096 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Citizen Babao ...

    • @fatsquirrel75
      @fatsquirrel75 8 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      +AAA That's the joke.

    • @vinayseth1114
      @vinayseth1114 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      +Citizen Babao Do mathematicians have friends?

  • @yriafehtivan
    @yriafehtivan 8 ปีที่แล้ว +600

    If you had all the positive integers as your friends you'd have to send infinite cards and you'd only get back -1/12

    • @aryesegal1988
      @aryesegal1988 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      +yriafehtivan i see what you did there.. ;)

    • @recklessroges
      @recklessroges 8 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      +yriafehtivan Only if your first friend replied with 1 card and the second with 2 cards and the 3rd with 3 french hens.

    • @shashanksistla5400
      @shashanksistla5400 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Reckless Roges
      Very true.

    • @shyamtripathi6817
      @shyamtripathi6817 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Only when their number of gifts equal to their ranks

    • @danieln7777
      @danieln7777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lol. Great one

  • @Isee-vn4go
    @Isee-vn4go 8 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I LOVE JAMES GRIME

    • @SomeScarsDontHeal
      @SomeScarsDontHeal 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me too ❤

    • @swimswum
      @swimswum 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +BigMan Stan ALL GRIME ALL THE TIME

  • @leo17921
    @leo17921 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    8:57 for anyone wondering exp(n)= e^n

  • @Verodoxys
    @Verodoxys 8 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    Yeah, but how many ways are there to partition Poland?

  • @Divinemakyr
    @Divinemakyr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Probably my favourite story of Ramanujan is when G. H. Hardy went to see him, and I'll let Hardy tell the story: "I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

  • @FadeToBlack279
    @FadeToBlack279 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love how enthusiastically James is playing with Duplo in this video only to go on to play Pen&Paper Tetris

  • @portreemathstutor
    @portreemathstutor 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My favourite footnote is footnote 34 page 69 in the Griffiths Introduction to Quantum Mechanics textbook where the author points out that " If you are irritatingly observant you may have noticed that the general theorem ... doesn't really apply".

  • @damienw4958
    @damienw4958 8 ปีที่แล้ว +323

    This needs to be reuploaded upside down and in a mirror

    • @effortless35
      @effortless35 8 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      +Damien W With French voiceover.

    • @user-ib8sy4qu8l
      @user-ib8sy4qu8l 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Damien W
      Can it be a one way mirror?

    • @franzluggin398
      @franzluggin398 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Ζήνων Ελεάτης We do not believe in things that don't exist around here. Now, let me quickly sum up all the naturals and get -1/12 as a result.

    • @MyHabbits
      @MyHabbits 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Damien W So you mean into a server in Australia? Hey, stop booing me! You don't get puns like this every day!

    • @user-ib8sy4qu8l
      @user-ib8sy4qu8l 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Franz Luggin
      Hahahahaha! Possibly, modulo-infinity!

  • @donach9
    @donach9 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    8:30 Well, that escalated quickly

  • @altrogeruvah
    @altrogeruvah 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for making a new video with James Grime, it's been a while! He's my favorite.

  • @Maya-iu3nz
    @Maya-iu3nz 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Uploaded on my birthday and I love Dr James Grime. This is awesome.

  • @jetstreamjackie3437
    @jetstreamjackie3437 8 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    1:50 Oh hey, he plays Tetris too

  • @adespade119
    @adespade119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    such a fascinating subject...I dont know much about maths, but when I read about Ramanujan I remember thinking this guy was one of, if not the most naturally gifted mathematicians in History. Had very little formal training, and so poor, he couldn't even afford notebooks, so had to use slates to do his calculations on, what mathematical marvels were lost on those slates, though he did of course, keep his best ideas in his three notebooks. Those slates are possibly in landfill somewhere.

  • @iabervon
    @iabervon 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Ramanujan's Christmas card list wasn't too bad. But it got bad when he tried to give all his friends presents by putting a candy in one sock belonging to each of them.

  • @starstruckvega
    @starstruckvega 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    whenever I see Dr. Grime is in a video I get super excited. He just seems so excited and happy about math! Pretty much I'm saying put more Dr Grime on the channel.

  • @freeelectron8261
    @freeelectron8261 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Really nice explanation of partitions. I was struggling with a very dry math book that didn't really make things clear. Thank you!

  • @vector8310
    @vector8310 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Euler, Hardy, and Ramanujan are the mathematicians who inspire me to actually explore math. And Numberphile and 3blue1brown are the best TH-cam mathologists

    • @Krish_202
      @Krish_202 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jacobi, Euclid, fermat were excellent too

  • @MrToughbot
    @MrToughbot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    second semester of undergrad I started studying partitions and q-series. I've fallen off since major surgeries and the COVID-19 pandemic. This video reminded me of how beautiful they are and how much I loved the maths involved. I swear to get back into it. So much left to be discovered and mulled over

  • @DRD363
    @DRD363 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Ramanujan was probably interested in this because he may have felt that this formula would explain what a number is. (The sum of its parts). In this case partitions.

  • @codebeard
    @codebeard 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That was a great video, thanks James!

  • @aadityabhattacharya1811
    @aadityabhattacharya1811 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing video even after so many years his work powers the curiosity within me

  • @shreeyamittal1771
    @shreeyamittal1771 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Please do a few more videos on Ramanujan's ideas. Great video.

  • @Ignoramus.et.Ignorabimus
    @Ignoramus.et.Ignorabimus 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Many thanks Numberphile...Was looking for this for quite a while.... Cheers!

  • @GarryBurgess
    @GarryBurgess 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    "Ramanujan had an amazing intuition for numbers; another Cambridge mathematician called John Littlewood said that all the positive integers were Ramanujan's personal friends, which sounds like another nightmare to me, having infinitely many personal friends. Imagine the Christmas card list. It sounds terrible".

    • @brendawilliams8062
      @brendawilliams8062 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I believe that he was deeply spiritually inclined and found pleasure in philosophical thoughts.

  • @hunteredelen1797
    @hunteredelen1797 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Imagine the Christmas card list... sounds terrible" best phrase ever

  • @eliotbehr2542
    @eliotbehr2542 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A legendary, humble individual...

  • @doudline2662
    @doudline2662 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Your channel has helped me so much in my programming/math journey!

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Happy to help 👍🏻

  • @riseabovehate9476
    @riseabovehate9476 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks to Cambridge for recognizing his talents

  • @Arm4g3dd0nX
    @Arm4g3dd0nX 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    11:00 - "Even in physics like eh, shuffling energy. So you know energy isn't created or destroyed it just gets moved around, right?" This is almost completely true. It starts to break down when you are working in the quantum range and having deal with virtual particles.
    Could it be, that REALITY isn't, really, real? O_o

    • @belive-cb8jp
      @belive-cb8jp 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually Objective Reality is REAL.
      Try the Solipsist Litmus (u)Test:
      Pinch your self; TRUTH Exists
      Pinch another sentient being; TRUTH WITH CONSEQUENCES...
      Save your solipsism for your "DEATH" inversion - that's when you'd better KNOW NO HARM...
      JUST say'n

    • @Arm4g3dd0nX
      @Arm4g3dd0nX 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      124bel875ive The problem is the definition of real. Some of the words used to describe real are: not imaginary, objective, not artificial, and absolute. Imaginary implies a higher conscious, and I have no intention of weighing in on one side of that debate, but if one did exist, imaginary would be an apt term for something created by a being's mind. Objective and absolute completely breaks down at the quantum scale, it's only at larger frames of references things seem so tangible. And the number of peer-reviewed articles in favor of the idea that our universe is a simulation is immense. So, in summary, all four of those terms would have to be true for what we call reality to be real. There would have to be no higher power, we would have to not be in a simulation, and we will have to distill the probabilistic nature of subatomic particles away. Seems like that would be quite a feat to show that our reality, is actually real.

    • @belive-cb8jp
      @belive-cb8jp 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Arm4g3dd0nX
      Pinch your self until it HURTS Brother. DO YOU EXIST?
      Pinch ME (or a sentient being) with intent to Harm - and one or both will cease to exist.
      People that deny objective reality are solipsists.
      Solipsists justify Violence and HARM sentient beings by pretending they are imaginary.
      Solipsists are THE reason Earth is in trouble today.
      150 billion animals per year killed and eaten by carnists (frugivores eating corpses!) is NOT SUSTAINABLE.
      It's a Death Cult.
      Again, Objective Reality.
      To deny Objective Reality in insanity.
      JUST say'n

    • @belive-cb8jp
      @belive-cb8jp 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Arm4g3dd0nX
      Beware YOU are in MONSTER Territory.
      Some of us OWN the Partitions...
      Madness? THIS IS MATHEMATICAL!

  • @HeavenlyTennyo
    @HeavenlyTennyo 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ah, James! He is a special one of my favorites here on Numberphile!

  • @KAZ8264
    @KAZ8264 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    James is back! Happy days.

  • @lawrencecalablaster568
    @lawrencecalablaster568 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am very excited about The Man Who Knew Infinity :)

  • @Mswordx23
    @Mswordx23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Having a favorite textbook footnote is so unbelievably nerdy and I love it.

  • @sirfermainclancharlie1018
    @sirfermainclancharlie1018 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So much respect for this host so smart

  • @L00NGB00W
    @L00NGB00W 8 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    Ramanujan forgot two of the most important Tetris pieces:
    The Squiggly: ◘◘
    ◘◘
    The Reverse Squiggly: ◘◘
    ◘◘

    • @TheSpacecraftX
      @TheSpacecraftX 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      +L00NGB00W
      Line piece...
      *Line piece.*
      LINE PIECE
      *LINE PIECE*
      *LINE PIECE!!!!!*

    • @KnakuanaRka
      @KnakuanaRka 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They’re called the S and Z.

    • @loganferguson6921
      @loganferguson6921 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He forgot T as well

    • @parthsushamachavan915
      @parthsushamachavan915 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      whoa whoa whoa

    • @andrewprahst2529
      @andrewprahst2529 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fun fact, if you ignore mirrors, there are 5 Tetrominos (Tetris pieces) and 14 pentaminos. It's Catalan numbers.

  • @amberheard2869
    @amberheard2869 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ramanujan was lego genius

  • @ramanujansdevotee2333
    @ramanujansdevotee2333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The man who infinity is just unpredictable and contains the mind at the level more than the infinity....
    Respect Shri Shrinivasan Ramanujan

  • @canusakommando9692
    @canusakommando9692 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude your a real math nerd. I really enjoy your teaching. I bet you make a great teacher / Professor .
    Thanks.

  • @thegermanpanda6699
    @thegermanpanda6699 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    We're going to need some more Duplo's

  • @ajaykumarmaruvada9113
    @ajaykumarmaruvada9113 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank u so much for showing us how beautiful math is and the supreme beauty it holds. I was always inspired deeply by Srinivasa Ramanujan. And it’s such a honour for India for the teachers like you are expanding his vision. In India we need teachers like you who can not only teach maths but show us that it is at the deepest in the heart of the cosmos. Thank for ur help. HAPPY TEACHERS DAY!

  • @subinmdr
    @subinmdr 8 ปีที่แล้ว +358

    That looks like a #ParkerSquare formula

    • @vamshidarisi8400
      @vamshidarisi8400 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol

    • @parkerparker6318
      @parkerparker6318 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      +Subin Mdr My name is Jesse Parker, and I approve this message.

    • @parkermowery6784
      @parkermowery6784 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      My name is Parker Mowery and I too approve this message.

    • @wertyuiop221
      @wertyuiop221 8 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      My name is Barry Allen and I'm the fastest man alive.

    • @NexxTGaming
      @NexxTGaming 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      +Murariu Ciprian
      Hi, my name is, what?
      My name is, who?
      My name is, chka-chka Slim Shady

  • @epicgamer5538
    @epicgamer5538 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    although I didn't understand it that well, thanks for trying to elaborate it. u r putting a great effort and enthusiasm.

  • @danuttall
    @danuttall 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:55 As he is drawing out the various partitions of 4, I start hearing the Tetris theme going through my head.

  • @wood_croft
    @wood_croft 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Could you talk more about the applications of it and show us how the full formula looks like?

    • @OM-yn8pt
      @OM-yn8pt 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Wood Croft I just did a module on Thermodynamics in College, I think its the same idea for partition functions they had the same sum of the exponent of a variable form anyway, they're essential in that field, look up the partition function in thermodynamics :)

  • @kcwidman
    @kcwidman 8 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    James!!!! Your back!!!!

    • @kansalsid
      @kansalsid 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You're

    • @z3ntropy
      @z3ntropy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      What about his back?

    • @kansalsid
      @kansalsid 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Zac Lee hahaha nice one

    • @sethgrasse9082
      @sethgrasse9082 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Zac Lee Yeeeessssss thank you!!!

    • @GravelLeft
      @GravelLeft 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I legiiamately thought you meant that something was wrong with James' back and started looking through the video until I suddenly realized xD

  • @lawrencecalablaster568
    @lawrencecalablaster568 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    James Grimes! :D You are one of my favourite people in the world, sir!!!

  • @jazzsoul69
    @jazzsoul69 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic video thank you very much for that !

  • @KessaWitdaFro
    @KessaWitdaFro 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    ramanujan roll up the partition please

  • @OsamaRana
    @OsamaRana 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Finals in less than a week? Screw it, JAMES GRIME!!

  • @xenolalia
    @xenolalia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 10:04 Dr. Grimes says of the classic Hardy-Ramanujan series approximation to the partition function: "in fact it becomes equal [as you include more terms of the series]." However, this is incorrect, as the Hardy-Ramanujan formula is only an asymptotic approximation (i.e., the value of the kth partial sum converges to p(n) only as n --> inf for fixed k, but *not* as k --> inf for fixed n). It was actually Radamacher who, in 1937 (some twenty years after the publication of H. and R.'s original result), was able to modify their formula to make it absolutely convergent.

  • @vedicastrol
    @vedicastrol 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks for explaining that partitions is about shuffling. that rang a bell!

  • @noelearlwatson2724
    @noelearlwatson2724 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    When I showed my friend OEIS for the first time he randomly entered some numbers and this sequence came up.

    • @traxhoho
      @traxhoho 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      oeis?

    • @anticorncob6
      @anticorncob6 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

  • @axiezimmah
    @axiezimmah 8 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    You're missing the Z and S tetris shapes. Oh, this isn't a video about tetris.

    • @gjugany
      @gjugany 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They also forgot the T...
      oh.. it's not tetris? nevermind..

    • @YellowPersonalityCore
      @YellowPersonalityCore 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This is just a Parker Square video about tetris.

  • @frankharr9466
    @frankharr9466 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was fascinating.
    What a wonderful thing to have started.

  • @sohamm20
    @sohamm20 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nothing is more misterious than that brown paper.

  • @gui1521
    @gui1521 8 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Full formula on wikipedia, you'll understand why he didn't give it to us when you'll see it...

    • @geekjokes8458
      @geekjokes8458 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Flandre Scarlet fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

    • @doern92
      @doern92 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Flandre Scarlet yea my professor found it just a couple years ago..

    • @traxhoho
      @traxhoho 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      i didn't found it

    • @gui1521
      @gui1521 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Skxawng en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(number_theory)#Approximation_formulas

    • @U014B
      @U014B 8 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      +Skxawng Of course you didn't. Ramanujan founded it.

  • @richardlbowles
    @richardlbowles 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It's rather ironic that Ramanujan should be particularly well known for his work on partitions. He was an Indian, and that's exactly what they did to India in 1947. And they considered how many ways there were to do it beforehand.(BTW, Ramanujan wouldn't have had a problem with his Christmas card list if all the positive integers were his close friends. As a Hindu he almost certainly wouldn't have had one.)What, too soon?

  • @dogemcdogenson1914
    @dogemcdogenson1914 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    YES JAMES IS BACK!!!!

  • @agilghifari552
    @agilghifari552 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Finally, he's back!

  • @WildStar2002
    @WildStar2002 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Awesome video! Those figures remind me of tetrominos - all the ways you can arrange four squares in a plane where each square has at least one edge connect to the whole figure. Oooh! You should do a video on polyominos! The sequence of possible configuration with one square is 1, two squares = 1, three = 2, four = 5, five = 12, six = 35, and so on. :-)

  • @AlexKing-tg9hl
    @AlexKing-tg9hl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    James is the most interesting person on numberphile. Prove me wrong

  • @davidtrajkovski2151
    @davidtrajkovski2151 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd love to see more vids like this one😍

  • @felipea.barretto7503
    @felipea.barretto7503 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh man I missed James so much!

  • @Nalkahn
    @Nalkahn 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Merci pour le conseil, mais je vais regarder la vidéo à l'endroit quand même :D

  • @lilianszuter5450
    @lilianszuter5450 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hi, thanks for this video, I appreciated your explanations. But after watching this I already not convinced by the fact this formula is exact for n small.
    Could you explain what's the real formula to find partitions of n ? Because the formula do you explain in this video become more accurate when n is large, like you said... It is an asymptotic development. I would like you describe the Rademacher's serie if it's possible, because I read this serie is more or even accurate than the first. Thanks again!

  • @kreglfromworld
    @kreglfromworld 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That footnote really sounds like the author went "can't be bothered with the french mate"

  • @viditparab2851
    @viditparab2851 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just watched the movie !!! ... thanks for explaining this partition stuff !!!

  • @RalphBellairs
    @RalphBellairs 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Every day I'm shufflin'

  • @tesseract2144
    @tesseract2144 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ramanujan was the most intelligent known man in history.

  • @Sh4dowbanned
    @Sh4dowbanned ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:52
    2:02: so u shift it, and it gets easier?
    2:22: The french way is redundant and more complicated.
    2:57
    3:34: gimme now.
    3:57-4:43: Euler's method
    5:23
    6:50

  • @rafaeldacosta8581
    @rafaeldacosta8581 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I believe Einstein once said something like "If you can't explain it simple, then you don't understand it well enough" - YOU just nailed my friend 👍

  • @guard13007
    @guard13007 8 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I'm going to watch this upside down in a mirror.

    • @belive-cb8jp
      @belive-cb8jp 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Guard13007, How did it go?
      Perhaps - Take a PEEK thru the Direct Opposite Reverse - The Prime Spiral Stills the Chaos.
      BOO!,
      Monster :-0

    • @KupoForLife
      @KupoForLife 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      124bel875ive g

    • @belive-cb8jp
      @belive-cb8jp 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      KupoForLife
      triacontahedron pawns the monster and bloch walls parasites :-)

  • @achu11th
    @achu11th 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    How many partitions of a parker square, are there? Probably almost infinite.

    • @dammitdanFTW
      @dammitdanFTW 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +achu11th memes are funny. even when they're not.
      jk

    • @achu11th
      @achu11th 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +dammit dan no, you are wrong. They are almost funny, but they are never really funny. I am not making fun of Parker. I am just making fun of the meme itself.

    • @chadisbad6
      @chadisbad6 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +achu11th There is no such thing as almost infinite.

    • @achu11th
      @achu11th 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Chad M but a parker square is almost complete. The series of partitions are infinite as I interpreted this video. So logically you could apply that there is something like "almost infinite". But it was for the sake of a joke and was meant to be unlogical. A joke is usually meant to make no sense. So yeah, you are right. That is my kind of humour, not everybody has to agree on it. Maybe you could make a version of my joke, which makes more sense. Thank you anyway

    • @chadisbad6
      @chadisbad6 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      achu11th Yeah I don't parker square is, it just really dubs my anime when people say things such as nigh omnipotent and the like.

  • @dashesy
    @dashesy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We do not know how many more formulas Ramanujan would have discovered had he lived longer. But, one thing is for certain and that is he would have been a Numberphile fan :)

    • @gordontaylor2815
      @gordontaylor2815 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Ehsan Azarnasab I think Numberphile should interview Dev Patel (who played Ramanujan in the movie they mention) about that.

  • @adrianmisak07
    @adrianmisak07 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    ‘imagine the christmas card list’ -> the best tangent of all time

  • @cold_blooded_7998
    @cold_blooded_7998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    intuitively, i would have thought, that the pattern would look like this : 5 -> 7 is +2, 7 -> 11 is+4 and then either it would be 11 -> 17, because we always add 2 or it would be 11 -> 19 because we always multiple by 2 of what we add, so the next one in pattern should look like: P(19k +7). Thats what i would think, but of course it does not works, but i still wanted to share this ;)

  • @SkyFoxTale
    @SkyFoxTale 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    6:08 that would be a christmas card list with cardinality aleph null! :D

    • @VladVladislav790
      @VladVladislav790 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Meijke Balay Thanks to VSauce, I understood that comment :)

    • @dammitdanFTW
      @dammitdanFTW 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +VladVladislav VSauce is amazing. Micheal always comes up with something that I'd never even heard of and makes it easy to understand

  • @SleepyLizard
    @SleepyLizard ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I see that prime number generator in the background 🤣

  • @yetanotherchannelyac1434
    @yetanotherchannelyac1434 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you. 🙏