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You can cut a hole in a cube that's big enough to slide an identical cube t… | |
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This week Steininger and Yurkevich found this convex polyhedron that you *can&#… | |
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@johncarlosbaez it's cool and all, but it's one of these situations whe… | |
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Why is this property called Rupert's property? My blog article explains:ht… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Are we just talking about straight holes? Or can it be some sor… | |
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@johncarlosbaez This is cool, but I’m surprised they had to construct a new p… | |
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@rasmus91 @johncarlosbaez The answer is twofold. First, why should it be useful… | |
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@rasmus91- when you listen to music, do you think "and this is useful how?… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @rasmus91 This is useful actually, it helps relaxing or feeling… | |
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@gregeganSF - interesting! I guess the proof was easier for the noperthedron. … | |
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@semiprime - straight holes. Just for fun, I conjecture that curved holes don&… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I wanted to celebrate by posting animations of the cube and oct… | |
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@gregeganSF - wow, great! Mind if I include them in my blog article about this… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I can't wait for the @standupmaths vid on the subject. | |
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@1HommeAzerty - all decent scientific or mathematical discoveries are emotional… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Is it possible to say what property causes this non-rupertdom? | |
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@androcat - yes, that's what the paper says:https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1847… | |
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@johncarlosbaez You’re welcome to use those GIFs on your blog.On the tetrahed… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Ah ah ah, when asked what I do for my research I often answer &… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @gregeganSF I guess to prove that something isn't Rupert yo… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @gregeganSF I don't think your conjecture can be true, beca… | |
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@johncarlosbaez https://github.com/mo271/models/commit/85495b9329be3455a5e3c1b3… | |
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@rasmus91 @johncarlosbaez Base science does not need to be useful, it just grow… | |
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@doragasu @johncarlosbaez i am not disputing that at allI do engineering and ev… | |
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@rasmus91 as you probably already know from engineering, you sometimes can'… | |
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@rasmus91 @doragasu - indeed, math should not be limited to what is considered … | |
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@Sbectol - I was agreeing with you; my comment was addressed to Rasmus. I also… | |
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@gregeganSF @johncarlosbaez David Renshaw @david also recently created an anima… | |
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@noamzoam @gregeganSF @david - cool! Do some of these polyhedra need to rotate… | |
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@rasmus91 @johncarlosbaezIt's not just a result on its own. It's also a… | |
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@Zamfr @rasmus91 - if mathematicians didn't love puzzles "too much&quo… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @Zamfr i love that phrasing. | |
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@johncarlosbaez @noamzoam @gregeganSF In the video, the apparent spin of the po… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @noamzoam @david There’s never any change in the relative ori… | |
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@johncarlosbaez They could have called the underlying property Prince Rupert’… | |
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@johncarlosbaez By cutting a hole you mean that the remainder of the cube after… | |
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@majeriisli - it takes work to make this precise; you're not stating it wit… | |
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I may want to find out if this is the same Prince Rupert as that after whom the… | |
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@vnikolov - What are the tears of glass? Anyway, the property is named after … | |
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Some convex polyhedra just *barely* have Rupert's property. A great exampl… | |
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@1HommeAzerty @johncarlosbaez @rasmus91 It seems to me that a scientific discov… | |
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@gregeganSF - okay. I was fooled by how Renshaw's video rotates the polyhe… | |
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Thank you!Yes, the same one.It's a long way down that Wikipedia pageto a pl… | |
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@rasmus91 This is mathematics. You prove things in math, and other people find … | |
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@mighty_orbot yeah, how, what was her name? Ada Lovelace? wrote programs 150 ye… | |
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@rasmus91 @johncarlosbaez You won't be saying that when you're locked i… | |
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@ApostateEnglishman @johncarlosbaez 🤣 | |
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@johncarlosbaez Oh! The same Prince Rupert as the Prince Rupert drop: https://… | |
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@penguin42 - he was the third founding member of the Royal Society! | |
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@johncarlosbaez @gregeganSF The paper does talk explicitly about why they craft… | |
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@johncarlosbaez "this is a square. you know where that goes? that's ri… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @rasmus91 @doragasu My personal reframing -I hope this ends up … | |
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@robinhouston @johncarlosbaez @gregeganSF the snub cube is also a polyhedron fo… | |
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@robinhouston @johncarlosbaez @gregeganSF what I'm saying I think is just a… | |
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@jcreed @robinhouston @gregeganSF - by the way, I now doubt my conjectureEvery … | |
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@johncarlosbaez @robinhouston @gregeganSF makes sense! but you meant infimum, y… | |
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@johncarlosbaez oh, it's a basket! | |
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@t54r4n1 - it's one case of a basket. A basket case. | |
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@johncarlosbaez great post, thanks! | |
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@johncarlosbaez someone show @tom7 this | |
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@jcreed - yes, infimum. I'll fix it. (Each distance you're infimizin… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I know of a small man who is a big asshole. He would easily fit… | |
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@narain @gregeganSF - excellent! For those who don't get it, the cross-sec… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Also, can't we just stare at the beauty of this result, and… | |
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@johncarlosbaez this will definitely be one of the first things I print with my… | |
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@tarix29 - cool! | |
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@MartinEscardo - indeed, anyone whose mind turns too quickly to the usefulness … | |
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@johncarlosbaez sometimes I see papers that talk about testing all the shapes, … | |
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@johncarlosbaez But wait! There's more!!Prince Rupert was the governor of t… | |
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@johncarlosbaez this makes me so happy, thank you | |
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@johncarlosbaez Someone printed one! https://mathstodon.xyz/@fractalkitty/11511… | |
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@EdPeggJr - that's a very sad change for that company! | |
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@raphael - I don't know any such way. Blaschke's selection theorem is … | |
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@oantolin - cool! | |
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@rasmus91 @johncarlosbaez It's like sex without procreation.People do usefu… | |
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@maxpool @rasmus91 - I lay in bed with her, thinking "and this is useful h… |