The Assassin Puzzle
Imagine you have a square-shaped room, and inside there is an assassin and a target. And suppose that any shot that the assassin takes can ricochet off the walls of the room, just like a ball on a billiard table. Is it possible to position a finite number of security guards inside the square so that they block every possible shot from the assassin to the target?
Episodes
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Proving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
S2 E7 - 8m 16s
There is a proof for Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem that uses a bridge - or portal - between geometry and algebra.
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The Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
S2 E6 - 9m 36s
Symmetric keys are essential to encrypting messages. How can two people share the same key without someone else getting a hold of it? Upfront asymmetric encryption is one way, but another is Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
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Topology vs "a" Topology
S2 E5 - 10m 21s
What exactly is a topological space?
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This Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
S2 E4 - 8m 2s
Here we break down Asymmetric crypto and more.
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Associahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
S2 E2 - 8m 21s
What happens when you multiply shapes?
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The Multiplication Multiverse
S2 E1 - 7m 28s
What happens if you multiply things that aren’t numbers? And what happens if that multiplication is not associative?
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