Extraordinary Conics: The Most Difficult Math Problem I Ever Solved

2020-03-15

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This is a real math problem I faced, and the process I went through to solve it. Despite being a difficult problem, I tried to focus on the beautiful visuals and interesting discoveries I made about conic sections that I doubt anyone knows about. While this isn't my typical style of video, there was a ton of coding that went into this (all open source) and an interactive app of this entire video. Check them out below!

Source Code: https://github.com/HackerPoet/Conics

Download Windows (64-bit): https://github.com/HackerPoet/Conics/raw/master/Conics.zip

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction

0:23 5 Elements

3:47 Duality

5:49 Skew Axes

7:39 My Hardest Problem (Part 1)

10:14 My Hardest Problem (Part 2)

13:59 My Hardest Problem (Part 3)

In Homage To:

3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

Mathologer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1_uAIS3r8Vu6JjXWvastJg

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