Squared Squares - Numberphile
Featuring Dr James Grime. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Extra footage from this interview: https://youtu.be/I0peG_kRE-4 Blog post about the old photo: http://www.bradyhara...
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So this thing is actually the logo of Trinity Maths Society. Trinity College in Cambridge, Maths Society, when they have lectures about mathematics, and they go out socializing to the pub, well their Society has this as their logo. It's a square made of other squares but all the squares are different sizes. So, see this one here with 50? Well that means it's a 50 unit by 50 unit square. This one here with a 35 is 35 by 35. All these squares are different sizes yet they fit together to make one big square which is 112 by 112. So it's called a squared square. Why have they picked this as their logo for their Society? Because they're nerds! Well, yeah. And that. AND, because it was Trinity Maths students that solved this. This one...
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So this thing is actually the logo of Trinity Maths Society. Trinity College in Cambridge, Maths Society, when they have lectures about mathematics, and they go out socializing to the pub, well their Society has this as their logo. It's a square made of other squares but all the squares are different sizes. So, see this one here with 50? Well that means it's a 50 unit by 50 unit square. This one here with a 35 is 35 by 35. All these squares are different sizes yet they fit together to make one big square which is 112 by 112. So it's called a squared square. Why have they picked this as their logo for their Society? Because they're nerds! Well, yeah. And that. AND, because it was Trinity Maths students that solved this. This one...
