Imagining Numbers as Shapes - Numberphile
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- I've been fascinated with savants, mathematical savants. There was a guy I was looking at, young guy, 12-year-old from the United States called Jacob "Jake" Barnett. Actually, he did this thing on 60 Minutes where he visualized numbers. - What does six look like? - Six, that's like the edge points of that. - So in this report, Jacob "Jake" Barnett was showing how much of a genius he is. And he actually showed a way that he visualizes numbers that's different. I've never seen it before. And the reporter didn't go into any detail. He just said, "And this is how he sees 54." But that wasn't enough for me 'cause I downloaded to the HD, download 1080p, and I wanted to see it, so I blew it up a...
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- I've been fascinated with savants, mathematical savants. There was a guy I was looking at, young guy, 12-year-old from the United States called Jacob "Jake" Barnett. Actually, he did this thing on 60 Minutes where he visualized numbers. - What does six look like? - Six, that's like the edge points of that. - So in this report, Jacob "Jake" Barnett was showing how much of a genius he is. And he actually showed a way that he visualizes numbers that's different. I've never seen it before. And the reporter didn't go into any detail. He just said, "And this is how he sees 54." But that wasn't enough for me 'cause I downloaded to the HD, download 1080p, and I wanted to see it, so I blew it up a...
