I'm slightly surprised that Tom would sink time into something as practical(?) as an open math problem, but as someone who has seen things like square packings and thought "hey I could probably...
I'm slightly surprised that Tom would sink time into something as practical(?) as an open math problem, but as someone who has seen things like square packings and thought "hey I could probably write a crappy optimizer and improve some obscure case" I can attest to the black hole-like nature of problems like these.
Spoilers(? is there a plot to be spoiled here?)
Having independently learned about the Noperthedron before this video, once I realized this was about Rupert's property I was anticipating that Tom would reveal that he was somehow involved in the paper and even double-checked to see whether he was one of the authors. Nope, turns out the timing was because he was as surprised by this paper as I was.
I'm slightly surprised that Tom would sink time into something as practical(?) as an open math problem, but as someone who has seen things like square packings and thought "hey I could probably write a crappy optimizer and improve some obscure case" I can attest to the black hole-like nature of problems like these.
Spoilers(? is there a plot to be spoiled here?)
Having independently learned about the Noperthedron before this video, once I realized this was about Rupert's property I was anticipating that Tom would reveal that he was somehow involved in the paper and even double-checked to see whether he was one of the authors. Nope, turns out the timing was because he was as surprised by this paper as I was.