4 Weird Unsolved Mysteries of Math

[@crispycrimps865]

Level 1 Math: Johnny has 120 oranges Level 10 Math: worm blankets

[@KingOfTheBeyond23]

Imagine studying a math doctorate just so some guy asks you the size of a blanket for his damn worm.

[@johnmckown1267]

I told my worm to tough it out.

[@BboyKeny]

Inb4 some AI solves the problem and thousands of mathematicians will be disappointed that some algorithm took their job.

[@pupnoomann7866]

algorithms are far away from proving (not just approximating) anything of interest. even proof checkers (algorithms that check human-made supposed proofs) are notoriously difficult to implement and operate.

[@ReclusiveEagle]

Imagine studying a math doctorate only to be replaced by a free website that can do more than you

[@auntypha5958]

how else would you get a math doctorate?

[@kayyumamcaoglu8671]

This video gave me a feeling that SciShow Math could be a fun channel

[@alext7074]

Look up Numberphile

[@wierdalien1]

@@alext7074 i was going to say, have you heard the story of Darth Numberphile, the interesting?

[@modernkennnern]

@@alext7074 They have a very different style. Numberphile is essentially an interview, while SciShow is reading a script

[@cromcorgetti]

There's also Stand-up Maths

[@SkydreamerStudios]

oh man I really hope that becomes a thing

[@jcespinoza]

6:45 Most notably, Matt Parker's Parker Square 😂

[@honorarymancunian7433]

Came to the comments looking for this reference, wasn't disappointed

[@LegendaryFartMaster]

Available now as a shirt 😂😂

[@vincentpelletier57]

He is a master in the search for that elusive square,

[@sunshine_tidings6983]

I have the shirt

[@bumblebeelegwarmers2786]

@@sunshine_tidings6983 Same!

[@kjs8719]

Recreational math. NOT to be confused with recreational meth...

[@ArtArtisian]

The 2 go together so often tho...

[@Qermaq]

Though it's as addicting and sometimes means your old friends stop coming over.

[@taylorcervantes1995]

😂😂

[@bhargavchavda1478]

Lmaoo

[@ubiliskkaiser9489]

Both have brain melting properties

[@Vasharan]

So, it seems that if I find myself lost in a forest, I should bring a telephone shaped inflatable sofa, and ride it downriver to escape. And I should bring a sudoku to have something to do while riding downriver.

[@92RKID]

Haha, that's funny. 😄 I'm terrible at math and am directionally impaired so doing the square problem wouldn't do me any good and I would get more lost than if I stood still.

[@5353Jumper]

Bring a deck of cards whenever you are hiking in the woods and may get lost. If you do get lost just start playing a game of solitaire. In no time someone will come along to tell you to move your black5 onto your red6 and you can just ask them which way to go.

[@jumpingfan5423]

Also you needs to bring worms that can give you a baby and the expected amount of yarn.

[@danielkorladis7869]

A good sequel to this video would be past math mysteries that eventually got solved and how.

[@becauseimafan]

Ooh yes, would definitely watch this!!

[@dblaze23]

The sofa problem got solved recently

[@bentoth9555]

The magic square of squares just makes me think of the Parker Square, honestly.

[@matthewryan2887]

Same here

[@Cesnik_]

Classic Parker Square.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

The Parker Square was one of the near misses he mentioned, the one where there were some repeats.

[@buckwheatgwg]

Yeah, it feels rude to have not mentioned the Parker Square to be honest. :P

[@culwin]

Parker Square of Parker Squares

[@VikashSingh]

For the largest sofa all you need to do is "pivot, pivot, pivot.. pivot!"

[@oldtimer1132]

And cut it in half

[@spacemoth4973]

PIVOT

[@rashakawa]

That's funny and true

[@janpapai9205]

And you missed the point.. Watch again. The problem is about NOT standing the sofa up

[@rashakawa]

@@janpapai9205 it was a joke, guessing you haven't moved many couch's.

[@massimookissed1023]

6:44 "Near misses" are known as Parker Squares.

[@flopsnail4750]

But they gave it a go, and that's what really matters.

[@becauseimafan]

@@flopsnail4750 Exactly, like that's why we also call it a near miss when airplanes almost crash into each other. "Ah, but you tried, that's what's important!" 😆

[@scottydu81]

@@becauseimafan Carlin said that a near-miss is actually a crash. “Wow, those two planes crashed into each other!” “I know, it was a near miss”

[@serraguden3538]

Me telling myself to go to sleep. * Phone buzzes * "Sci show 4 unsolwed mystery of math" Dang it sci show knows the nerd in me.

[@RubALamp]

r/iamverysmart

[@andersbuchjeppesen5493]

@@RubALamp r/ihavereddit

[@hubertop1247]

Reddit moment

[@RubALamp]

@@andersbuchjeppesen5493 r/ihavereddit

[@jr2904]

@@RubALamp not the brightest bulb, are you

[@TheMasterfulcreator]

I am literally a mathematician by education, and I also find it 'confusing and difficult.' The difference is, we find the process of figuring it out rewarding and beautiful. But not everyone does and that's cool.

[@HeWhoComments]

Figuring it out is fun!

[@earthtoibrahim]

I have a thory, i might sound a lil stupid here but hear me out. So there are numbers and decimal numbers, and between each number there are infiite amounts of decimal numbers, for example between 1 and 0 there are infinite decimal numbers for example if we go down starting from 0.99 to zero, it goes forever, like (0.99, 0.98 0.97...etc) it never ends. So if there are infinite decimal numbers between two normal numbers, does that mean that there is also a point where we reach the end of infinite and enter whole another side of maths which is big enough for our brain to think about it? This debunks absolute infinite but since there are NOT infinite decimal numbers between two normal numbers, then there must be a point where we reach the barrier of maths and enter a another side of math. This theory also makes sense for dividing a number by zero, the number will be soo big even infinite wouldn't make sense as the answer. Let me know if im wrong.

[@TheMasterfulcreator]

@@earthtoibrahim between any two numbers of any kind there's infinitely many rational numbers (fractions). But this is a "countable" infinity. There is also infinitely many irrational numbers (non repeating infinite decimals) between any two numbers of any kind but this is an "uncountable" infinity. Uncountable infinities are really big. Look up countable vs uncountable infinities. You might find this interesting.

[@hangebza6625]

Mathematicans: what is the smallest blanket a worm could do Me, an intellectal: Worms cannot make blankets

[@massimookissed1023]

Silkworms can ;)

[@ArtArtisian]

@@massimookissed1023 +

[@Brianpeckin]

@@massimookissed1023 they can't weeve a blanket so no they can't

[@massimookissed1023]

@@Brianpeckin , silkworms aren't even worms either, so there's that too.

[@christopherhernandez3937]

*Intellectual

[@isaach1447]

My 10yr old just said “that NASA logo is the most colorful thing Michael’s ever worn!”…🤣

[@kingofbirds]

wow, the kids not wrong XD

[@JoseMaGM]

Ok Karen. Curb your kid watching science videos. You must be very proud, that you HAVE to share how young your kid is watching these kind of videos

[@darrenmcloughlin1935]

@Subi I concur

[@WuvPain]

@Subi lmao he really does doesn’t he

[@JoseMaGM]

@Subi sure, I'll take the title. As long as I'm not the one writing these type of comments...

[@danielcollins3492]

Has Joseph Gerver as a professor a few years ago. Then, I told him his name was "big" on the internet for the sofa problem. Either he was humble or had no idea...

[@salmay4266]

In math is a lot easier to come with problems than to come with solutions

[@ArtArtisian]

Kinda depends =) A good problem can't be too easy, nor too hard. Most of them don't survive the ages. This is why Martin Gardner is so impressive. Speaking for making calc problems, it's very difficult to make something that isn't an obvious computation, but also is intelligibly explained.

[@maattthhhh]

Key takeaway: Mathematicians like to imagine problems for themselves, and others 😕

[@slcpunk2740]

Key takeaway: researchers have too much time on their hands

[@maloxi1472]

@@slcpunk2740 What does that even mean ?

[@aneetnaidu]

Time = numbers

[@aneetnaidu]

@ dumb@ss askin what that means

[@minhnguyenphanhoang4193]

If you think of the worm/forest problem as the shortest path through a field datas, it will start making sense why its so important.

[@holofech9744]

Let me be clear, as a mathematician, math is in fact confusing and difficult

[@SianNadine]

100%

[@hannahrobbins1017]

Although often still fun! 😅

[@onetapcalculator8971]

As a mathematician , you will become the best player in my game

[@anuragmukherjee6694]

And the nail in the coffin is maths unpredictability incompleteness and inconsistency if made complete...ish. The proofs that math isnt complete or consistent were given by kurt gödel.

[@Belzughast]

Mathematicians: Stuck on a problem nobody actually has.

[@ArtArtisian]

Lost in the woods: the roomba problem! Some child picked you up, and you need to find the nearest wall asap so you can follow the edge home. How do?

[@HECKproductions]

* cough * buying 64 watermelons * cough *

[@adlockhungry304]

Until they do. The math involved in helping Einstein solve relativity had been around for a while, and was, until relativity, a completely esoteric exercise in mathematics, with no practical applications whatsoever.

[@paleposter]

Those poor worms though

[@ccgarciab]

The colorful framing is there just for ease of explanation. The problems themselves are optimization ones, which are generally some of the most useful ones to solve, if solved generally.

[@joebledsoe257]

The sofa is only as large as a hernia will allow.

[@sugarfrosted2005]

Calling a bound a limit probably just irreversibly confused half the audience.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Calculus. It's a beautiful thing!

[@nosuchthing8]

Most people had calc

[@matejlieskovsky9625]

Bounds are not limits. There are bounds that are not limits and limits that are not bounds. Mathematical terminology is like that sometimes. Not having a defined terminology ends up being even worse, trust me.

[@Noztube]

It'd be interesting to have a video that goes over some weird math problems that have been solved. Problems that seem pointless at the time but turned out to be very important.

[@militantpacifist4087]

Yet I still don’t know how small I have to get so my cat can fit on my bed when sleeping.

[@johnmckown1267]

No one can get that small. Dogs are worse about being bed hogs.

[@sarahberlaud4285]

THIS. My own solution involved getting 3D with things... he sleeps under the blanket fort created by my knees

[@internetuser8922]

I feel like I'm definitely qualified to write computer programs to brute-force solutions (like how the largest primes are found), but I am woefully unable to think of even basic proofs for why a solution is the best one or not. That feels so much harder, almost like an entirely different skill.

[@pierrecurie]

Ya, that's why it's hard.

[@wfb.subtraktor311]

I just adopted the attitude at some point that the solution you have is the best solution until someone shows you a better one, as otherwise you will never actually start.

[@ArtArtisian]

Technically one can brute force proofs! Look up automatic theorem proving, tho perhaps be prepared to read some set theory first =)

[@fossforever512]

Yeah I mean, one is just writing programs (being a programmer) the other one falls into the category of computer science and or mathematics No necessary connection between those skills You can be a mathematician/computer scientist and never program anything And you can be a programmer and never be a computer scientist or mathematician But I feel like most people who study computer science end up somewhere in the middle (most land more towards programmer because job market values it more)

[@yonatanbeer3475]

@@ArtArtisian Why set theory? iirc theorem assistant programs are based in type theory?

[@additionaddict5524]

Remember that the most important point of mathematics is to keep mathematicians busy. If you were to let them out into the real world they’ll cause more harm than good.

[@anuragmukherjee6694]

They do more good to the real world then almost all the other people watching this video,including you and me.

[@additionaddict5524]

@@anuragmukherjee6694 do we? Thanks for letting me know

[@anuragmukherjee6694]

@@additionaddict5524 you mean youre a mathematician?

[@sanchezable]

I need to see the shape of the worm blanket.

[@annas7108]

(young) mathematician here - my personal favorite is goldbach's conjecture! goldbach proposed that every even number is the sum of two prime numbers. we've since tested numbers with 40 zeroes in them, and it's always held true, but there is no proof due to the fact that the conjecture relates two concepts based in multiplication (even numbers, prime numbers) using addition. crazy!

[@michaelkeller5927]

It doesn't matter what the size of the couch is. If you don't yell "PIVOT!!" it won't turn the corner

[@gekylafas]

Underrated comment

[@alberthadonlyone]

Not including the Collatz conjecture/3n+1 problem in a list like this is weird.

[@lonestarr1490]

I think the focus is on problems for which it is kind of surprising that we don't know the answer to. While for the Collatz problem, if asked how to attempt a proof of it, almost every mathematician out there would be more or less dumbfounded.

[@alberthadonlyone]

@@lonestarr1490 Good point

[@fi4re]

This list should include all interesting problems not on this list

[@alberthadonlyone]

@@fi4re I think there is something special about a problem you can explain to the average 4th grader while at the same time being described by Erdös with "Mathematics may not be ready for such problems.".

[@andrewo2769]

Dude, just make the baby worm a tube sock instead of a blanket. There, problem solved. Now where's my Nobel Peace prize?

[@Carlos-xs2ks]

When mathematicians eventually give up on these unsolvable problems, I'll bet they think about all the time they spent pondering about *_x_* and wonder *_y_* ?

[@icollectstories5702]

Naw, that only happens when someone shows the answer is actually z.

[@diggymgee]

caaaaarloooos

[@user255]

The Moser's worm problem is very badly explained here. They left to tell you are allowed to turn or flip the worm.

[@malavoy1]

Can you roll it up in a spiral?

[@zunaidparker]

I still don't understand what the problem is and why a 6-6.5% solution works. How can you get below the the circle? What if the worm spins in its sleep? If it's not allowed to spin, then why not a blanket exactly the size of the worm?

[@effuah]

@@zunaidparker You have to prepare the blanket upfront, not knowing in how the worm is shaped and the blanket is sort of "stiff", so couldn't bend it. You can get below the circle by an ellipse to example. If the worm is stretched out you can use the long side of the banket, if it is curled up, it can't be that wide, since it is curled up, so the middle part doesn't have to be that wide.

[@malavoy1]

@@zunaidparker In the problem it's actually a curve, not a worm. Curves are lines, but the they are still lines, therefore having only one dimension. The Blanket that was the size of the worm would also be one dimensional, but the problem asks for the smallest 'area'. There are probably other restrictions on the types of 'blanket' that can be considered. These problems are usually all about the restrictions that are put on the requirements.

[@user255]

@@malavoy1 Spiral is one "shape" of the worm, but you have to consider *all* the possible "shapes". You cannot reshape the worm, only turn and / or flip it. Thus the blanket cannot be one dimensional, that wouldn't cover the spiral only straight line.

[@michellereed2535]

Fun fact: Any mathematician lost in a forest will die because he aint smart enough to toss away math and concentrate on actual survival.

[@lukeingle5587]

Sounds stupid. Probably right.

[@Wxwy]

Math can be such an enigma at times...

[@omri9325]

Enigma is math at other times

[@kalebmark2908]

I can’t get over how validating it is to see another male with the same type hair and length as me. And who’s also loves science no less!

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[@bkffr4100]

Why does moser's worm answer seem to just be a sleeping bag?

[@jiaswan22]

I was really hoping they would evoke some of the music or theme, or settings from the tv show “unsolved mysteries”...alas, a missed opportunity.

[@internetuser8922]

That makes me want to parody/recreate the "A Current Affair" logo graphics & iconic sound design, probably with some vaporwave aesthetics thrown in for good measure, haha.

[@bobjung9981]

Scientist 1: I've got the biggest possible sofa. Scientist 2 : gets a bigger hallway.

[@WolfgangDoW]

That's the engineers answer lol

[@PabloSanchez-qu6ib]

The sofa problem? Easy, old house : sofa, new house : log fire.

[@pierreabbat6157]

How do you take the log of a fire? To what base?

[@PabloSanchez-qu6ib]

@@pierreabbat6157 that depends on how many seats the darn sofa has.

[@becauseimafan]

If old house had *old* sofa, don't burn the foam/stuffing in it, could get nasty even if outside "Hey kids! Be careful burning your household furniture! It could release toxic fumes, so always check with your parents!" 😂

[@sophierobinson2738]

If the sofa is made only of foam rubber, it can be really big. And Yay! for Martin Gardner!

[@danschmo7413]

loved math in grade school. lost the lust in high-school. never made it to college because some people don't want to teach. Home work is stupid if I got to teach myself.

[@Nikki0417]

#1 The answer is a giant inflatable sofa. Alternatively, you could burn a regular sofa and carry the box of ashes.

[@StayCoolKeto]

*I'm sorry but the sofa problem has already been solved by IKEA lol* 🔧

[@apextroll]

Chainsaw #1 answer.

[@sarahberlaud4285]

You can tell that I'm not a mathematician because: 1. My immediate reaction was, "why not get a beanbag-type sofa, or make sure you can disassemble and reassemble it before purchasing?" 2. As a mother I know that baby worm will find a way to wiggle out of anything you try to cover him with (and in any case we all should be using sleep sacks not blankets) 3. Staying put is almost always your safest bet, don't try to move. On top of that, if you're that disoriented, you may have suffered a concussion or something, or be terribly dehydrated. Stay put! It turns out I'm a practical mom, and not a math person... but I still love math

[@IOwnThisHandle]

These probems haven't been solved because they're literally a waste of people's time.

[@mistrants2745]

They arent. They are when phrased the way they are in this video but many of these types of questions can have important functions in computer science.

[@acswu2617]

baby worm problem is simple indeed! Put it in a tube shape blanket.

[@Nabikko]

0.9 repeating = 1 this will make people mad but it’s true

[@icollectstories5702]

IMO, it's not that it's necessarily true, it's just that you can't prove it false.😜

[@MrMctastics]

People usually look at decimal representations to investigate properties of the real numbers. In order to do that you almost always need a 1-1 correspondence between the reals and decimal representations. In order to have a 1-1 correspondence you need to exclude infinite 9's at the ends of numbers. While what you said is technically valid, if your looking to prove anything with these decimal representations then you probably need to define decimal representations with infinite 9's at the end as not existing. Or in other words .9999... does not equal 1, most of the time In short .9...=1 ... sometimes lol

[@johnmckown1267]

Sofa problem step 1: fire up the chainsaw.

[@timacuff332]

I feel like this episode suffers from not being in depth enough. I was intrigued and wanted to know a bit more about the math.

[@heavymetalbassist5]

Math teachers that didn't know where what they taught corresponded in the real world drove me crazy in my school days

[@NicoAssaf]

Tbf, sometimes not even mathematicians have an answer to that.

[@qwertyferix]

4:11 Maybe it's a "million buck problem" because there are so many deer in the forest.

[@PatrickSandy78]

Michael's hair game is on point.

[@dipstiksubaru3246]

He cut it!!!! Noooo!!!

[@roelsvideosandstuffs1513]

Is the assumption the sofa needs to be solid and it cannot be flexible and or folded?

[@ArtArtisian]

Correct =)

[@ScarletBanter]

I can see a lot of these being a major boon to the games industry.

[@aayamshrestha5982]

I found this cool way of making magic squares which requires a sequence of 9 numbers such that they have common difference and I don't see how that is possible with square numbers of whole numbers. So, I concluded it was impossible to make magic square of squares. If there is any other way to make the magic squares let me know. According to the method, for any arithmetic sequence, Example: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 These numbers can be written in magic square as: [8th 1st. 6th] [3rd. 5th. 7th] [4th. 9th. 2nd]

[@seanspartan2023]

Oh, I was thinking he'd talk about the Goldbach Conjecture or Continuum Hypothesis

[@adamn7409]

The weirdest problem in math is why the hell Jerry would want or need to buy 1500 watermelons

[@ubtpixielox]

5:50, this really makes me picture a team of mathematicians lost in the woods, and instead of just walking and getting out, they’ve all sat down and gotten stuck trying to figure out this problem 😂

[@baconshake2401]

For the couch problem, tip the sofa on to it’s end, turn the corner then lower the couch or original position. Tada! Problem solved and no math involved!

[@sion8]

The problem includes the part where one cannot lift the sofa.

[@ericmuschlitz7619]

How much into an unfalsifiable concept does inquiry have to delve before it’s determined such? and when is such considered an impractical inquiry? Are there practical unfalsifiables to ponder?

[@maloxi1472]

Pretty sure that "unfalsifiable concept" isn't a thing; not that the rest of that comment makes much more sense

[@ericmuschlitz7619]

@@maloxi1472 not coming from a math, but plenty of these examples, might qualify. For instance, any irrational number number is an unfalsifiable concept, because we cannot physically observe or demonstrate such, or anything rendered as infinite. So perhaps, where is the practical end of notation of an unrepresentable number or investigating improbability? Where does practical math end, and theoretical math begin? Perhaps a bit too deep, but since we were discussing things that have not been proven. I'm not trolling, just nerding out.

[@blak4831]

We don't know and can't know, and that's honestly what excites me so much about math (and breaks my heart with regards to people who don't share in that sentiment). Your example of imaginary numbers is a perfect one - they're incredibly useful in the real world as they distinguish between different axis that meet certain properties, like the axis of 2D space or even abstract dimensions in non-spatial data sets. We have absolutely no way of knowing whether a crackpot idea will lead to a massive breakthrough or nothing at all, and that's what's exciting - there's a theoretically infinite toolbox out there that's all interconnected in surprising and nonlinear yet still rigorously structured ways and we just get to keep digging and finding ways to solve real-world problems we didn't even know we had

[@stanleydenning]

I hate math. So why am I watching this?

[@madeline799]

This videos title should be “proving that mathematicians have too much time on their hands”

[@earthtoibrahim]

I have a thory, i might sound a lil stupid here but hear me out. So there are numbers and decimal numbers, and between each number there are infiite amounts of decimal numbers, for example between 1 and 0 there are infinite decimal numbers for example if we go down starting from 0.99 to zero, it goes forever, like (0.99, 0.98 0.97...etc) it never ends. So if there are infinite decimal numbers between two normal numbers, does that mean that there is also a point where we reach the end of infinite and enter whole another side of maths which is big enough for our brain to think about it? This debunks absolute infinite but since there are NOT infinite decimal numbers between two normal numbers, then there must be a point where we reach the barrier of maths and enter a another side of math. This theory also makes sense for dividing a number by zero, the number will be soo big even infinite wouldn't make sense as the answer. Let me know if im wrong.

[@spineshivers]

If you keep your palms let's say one meter apart from one another and you half that distance every time, mathematically your palms should never touch. But they do.

[@ChessLynx]

127^2 46^2 58^2 2^2 113^2 94^2 74^2 82^2 97^2 this is the closest i found the sum of rows and columns and one of the diagonals is comes out to be 21609 but other diagonal value (sum) is coming more than 21609

[@davidwallace6024]

I believed it was solved identical to your 3x3 while working around counterclockwise, found your comment then realized top left to bottom right go over 21609. Is it a prank?

[@tophers3756]

"recreational math" Surely such an improbable creature never existed

[@ThatRedHusky]

Mathematicians: HOW CAN WE PROVE THIS BLANKET IS THE SMALLEST AREA TO COVER A WORM IN ANY POSITION???? Me: Blankets bend....

[@warpcore9681]

I completely lost with this one. :)

[@PLuMUK54]

The biggest sofa is infinity+1 long, and infinity+1 wide...the problem said "without lifting", it said nothing about chopping it into an infinite number of teeny weeny pieces and kicking them round the damned corner! I await my Nobel Prize... 😁

[@robertdarcy6210]

5. Why we won't ditch Pi and start using Tau, considering it's highly superior

[@jdhalligan]

I'm sorry but most professional mathematicians I know will ABSOLUTELY tell you maths is confusing and difficult

[@joebledsoe257]

Paint curing amazes me, technically it isn't drying it's curing.

[@georgewang2947]

1:11 "the biggest sofa soFA"

[@toddgriffin6069]

I would love to see some of the solutions to these problems!

[@itsonlyhersh]

So would they

[@JayWhee]

@@itsonlyhersh chortled a bit

[@hobobazaar8196]

find them, then.

[@igt3928]

"Shaped as a telephone's receiver" that description aged you

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[@Harriet1822]

Trigger discipline, or you'll be cleaning Marvin's grey matter off the back seat.

[@jliller]

These mysteries do nothing to make me like math. They take somewhat abstract numerical problems, whose solutions doesn't seem important, and try to visualize them into real world examples that break down in you think about the details. What's the largest sofa that can fit around a corner if we don't limit the sofa's shape to anything realistic for a piece of furniture? What's the smallest blanket that can wrap a linear creature that doesn't use blankets if we're not restricted to a realistic shape of a blanket? (Wouldn't the answer also change depending on the thickness of the blanket and the thickness of the worm?) Say you're lost in a forest. You have a map, but you have no way to tell where you are on the map so the map is irrelevant for this problem so I don't know why we brought it up. Instead we're going to walk in a random direction to get out of the forest, but whether we should walk in a straight line or a not depends on the shape of the forest. None of which seems to represent the reality of being lost in a forest.

[@terryenby2304]

Yay Maths!

[@MorgottTheGraceGiven]

The real question with mosers worm is what kind of monster would make such a tiny blanket for a baby worm? I think baby worms deserve better. Maybe give them a pillow too

[@maloxi1472]

The sheer amount of mathematical illiteracy in the comments makes me worried about the future of our species 😕

[@rchas1023]

Problem 3 - the forest: The first thing that entered my mind was "Climb a tree". Perhaps the problem needs rephrasing to eliminate such thoughts.

[@markadams7046]

What about the question, "Is math discovered or created?"

[@user255]

Neither, the terms do not apply to such question. Or either one depending on how you like to define them.

[@JedCopley]

I can’t help but think the animator wasn’t given enough info on the worm problem in order to helpfully visually convey the worm problem.

[@Viewer2812]

Q: Is Math a field of Science?

[@toriad9848]

Physics, mostly.

[@ChrisChoi123]

no

[@YahyaFalcon]

No, not unless deductive proof takes the place of experimental evidence in all scientific fields.

[@maloxi1472]

@@toriad9848 nope

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@toriad9848 Physics is mostly math, but it doesn't work the other way around.

[@KnighteMinistriez]

I love recreational math. This is why I have a whiteboard hanging in my room. I am a big nerd.

[@akumaking1]

So is this why math is hated so much?

[@maloxi1472]

This is why it's loved. People who "hate math" typically hate a caricature of it, where creativity is replaced by blind calculations and logic by arguments from authority; you know, like what happens in most mediocre schools...

[@AaronandbriEnne]

Worm= 2πrh + 2πr2 or area of a cylinder. The worm may be flexible, but so is the blanket. The surface area of both will be constant.

[@stevenunibrow5036]

Or you could just tightly secure the smallest possible blanket around the worm that way it automatically covers the entire worm in every position.

[@Nerd_of_Anarchy]

4:45 jump in the river, no longer in the forest.

[@Alpha13Wolf]

What’s the baby worm’s width? All we need is to make it a tube with a hemispheric cap at each end. Then just take the flattened mesh of it, like the pattern used in sewing it.

[@felpshehe]

I understood nothing. Yet I'm amazed at how mathematicians made the modern world by goofing around.

[@kjs8719]

No, the Moving Sofa puzzle is "how did I get it in here, but I can't get it out?!"

[@ethan-loves]

I'm confused about the worm problem. How can a blanket smaller than the circle shown cover the worm at any rotation?

[@K-Boogie7999]

Why would a work even use a blanket in the first place

[@TheAqissiaq]

you're allowed to move the blanket around to cover the worm. as a very simple example: if the worm was always either a straight line, or curled up into a circle we could cover it with something that looks like Ø. placing the line over the worm when it's straight, and the circle when it's curled up. this would have a smaller area than a full disk (since we remove most of the interior of the disk. for reference: the best guesses are slightly modified "sectors" of unit radius - shapes that look a bit like a pizza slice where the length from the tip to the middle of the crust is 1.

[@ethan-loves]

@@TheAqissiaq Ohh, thank you so much for the explanation!

[@deekshas3936]

I looked into the comments for Parker Square references and they didn't disappoint! 😆

[@RedJericho45]

Who's going to let the mathematicians know that most forests have a heighth axis? Makes walking in a straight line easier said than done...

[@concinnity9676]

The problem we want solved is, "Given walls A units apart, tell if a sofa L x W can fit"

[@masteranimation2008]

Now I know why engineering was more appealing to me.

[@dipstiksubaru3246]

Michael's flow game is closing in on full awesome 👌😎 say no to haircuts Mike!

[@hhhsp951]

Wait I thought someone solved the moving sofa problem though? I guess not.

[@Fairview104]

Is anyone else worried about the cold baby 🐛 when the blanket fails to cover? 😥