New Theories Reveal the Nature of Numbers

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Emory math professor Ken Ono explains major breakthroughs in our understanding of partition numbers, the basis for adding and counting. Ono and his colleagues discovered that partition numbers behave like fractals, and they devised the first finite formula to calculate the partitions of any number. These new theories were hundreds of years in the making, and answer some famous old questions in math. To learn more, visit: www.emory.edu/esciencecommons.

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[chopinbrain]

I am shocked...

Amazingly, not only is the guy good at math, but much more importantly he can TEACH.

So we actually have a teacher who can teach

Which to me is more amazing than the theory.

[AAAnsie]

<3 LaTeX presentations =)

he is really good at making this things easy to understand, but at the same time making you realize how difficult this theory is

[Gerry barnabysfilmreviews]

ive just found a date in one, 2012558, 2012/ 55 / 8 this happened Bombed-out vehicles after street fighting in Aleppo, October 2012. For a war ... General Security Directorate: 8 000. Syria 55 to 60 thousans people were killed or injuryed.

[Gerry barnabysfilmreviews]

is it just me or is anyone seing dates in these numbers i could be wrong

[iwait4u]

That they may pick the lock of simplicity itself.

[michaelmross]

Why 24...! Did I miss the explanation?

[orlanino]

Check the 4 part video on youtube. Search "Hunting The Hidden Dimension - Fractals"

[tlaloc1525]

He can teach but the subject has no use outside the class room.....this classes are the reason the high cost in education and length to graduate. I work for The Boeing Company and I had never I mean never seen an engineer using any thing here.....well yes the word partition, and infinite and the sign of +and - and some times reference to other math issues regarding euler such as calculus, optics, light,but this here never.

[tlaloc1525]

Wrong claims here.The creator of software like windows and the others that followed based the software systems under the structure of FAT, NTFS, and HPFS files where this was accomplished by allowing the cluster to be defined as multiples of the hardware's natural allocation size. Size in Finally, in NTFS all filenames are Unicode based. These formulas here were the pass time of the true mathematicians no application in real world life. PC structure is bit,bytes and their multiples.

[dudejohnny]

I wish more math classes were this way. I like being confused to the point where I'm just dabbling with things out of curiosity. What fun is math if it appears trivial.

[greger333]

Great lecture! but fuck coughing people.