Sneaky Topology | The Borsuk-Ulam theorem and stolen necklaces
Solving a discrete math puzzle using topology.
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Want more fair division math fun? Check out this Mathologer video
https://youtu.be/7s-YM-kcKME
(Seriously, Mathologer is great)
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The original 1986 by Alon and West with this proof
https://m.tau.ac.il/~nogaa/PDFS/Publications/The%20Borsuk-Ulam%20Theorem%20and%20bisection%20of%20necklaces.pdf
VSauce on fixed points
https://youtu.be/csInNn6pfT4
EE Paper using ideas related to this puzzle
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=802179
I first came across this paper thanks to Alon Amit's answer on this Quora post
https://www.quora.com/As-of-2016-what-do-mathematicians-on-Quora-think-of-the-3Blue1Brown-maths-videos
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Music by Vincent Rubinetti:
https://vincerubinetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-3blue1brown
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3blue1brown, by Grant Sanderson, is some combination of math and entertainment, depending on your disposition. The goal is for explanations to be driven by animations and for difficult problems to be made simple with changes in perspective. Contact and F...