A Strange Map Projection (Euler Spiral) - Numberphile

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  • @numberphile
    @numberphile  Před 5 lety +200

    Poster and sticker based on this video: teespring.com/en-GB/euler-spiral-world-map

    • @kaitiesaxe5753
      @kaitiesaxe5753 Před 5 lety +4

      Bought the poster and framed it, I love it so much ❤️

    • @ladymercy5275
      @ladymercy5275 Před 4 lety +2

      I really love this channel. I'm glad that you're all doing this.

    • @lxdimension
      @lxdimension Před 4 lety +4

      Can we see this mapped out properly on a computer model image please? That would be pretty cool!

    • @hairyairey
      @hairyairey Před 4 lety

      @@lxdimension Mathematica should be able to handle it.

    • @freeman7788
      @freeman7788 Před 4 lety +2

      Earth is flat. Like a dinner plate.

  • @Hirudin
    @Hirudin Před 5 lety +6188

    Oh no, wait until the flat orangers see this video...

    • @Lezzylree
      @Lezzylree Před 5 lety +49

      Oh no

    • @BrekMartin
      @BrekMartin Před 5 lety +136

      There’s probably not a great deal of them watching Numberphile.

    • @PaoloSilverInzaghi
      @PaoloSilverInzaghi Před 5 lety +8

      My mind went to the team from the marble races instead of poking fun at flat earthers.

    • @almostatheist
      @almostatheist Před 5 lety +5

      Hirudin
      So globbies can no longer say a sphere cannot be put on a flat surface

    • @almostatheist
      @almostatheist Před 5 lety +7

      Brek Martin
      I’m a flat earther and a scientist and i watch them

  • @EmperorTigerstar
    @EmperorTigerstar Před 5 lety +1397

    The Euler Spiral map both horrifies and intrigues me.

    • @enricmm85
      @enricmm85 Před 5 lety +57

      We need a history of the world day by day map on this projection.

    • @yoavshati
      @yoavshati Před 5 lety +7

      That's the beauty of math

    • @qncsc
      @qncsc Před 5 lety +9

      i am ONLY utterly horrified at the time waste, as it has 0 benefit
      how about that math -- cost, (trends to) infinite, and benefit, (trends to) 0.

    • @pfgoffical2746
      @pfgoffical2746 Před 5 lety +9

      HISTORY YEAR BY YEAR ON THIS MAP

    • @ianmoseley9910
      @ianmoseley9910 Před 5 lety +19

      Marcus Aurelius it has a certain amusement value and introduces the concept of the Euler spiral. An old saying about knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing comes to mind.

  • @samuctrebla3221
    @samuctrebla3221 Před 4 lety +248

    "In 3 hundred meters, make a loop around the earth, and then turn right"

  • @johanmedrano1924
    @johanmedrano1924 Před 4 lety +1364

    Normal people: the earth is round
    Flat earthers: the earth is flat
    Mathematicians: the earth should be a spiral

    • @statusquo9520
      @statusquo9520 Před 4 lety +21

      The Earth is a doughnut

    • @platypuschallenger
      @platypuschallenger Před 4 lety +13

      the earth is hollow

    • @jackiedoesthings6910
      @jackiedoesthings6910 Před 4 lety +16

      The earth is a Potato

    • @illegalquantity
      @illegalquantity Před 4 lety +19

      Earth is a planet

    • @Alienshade
      @Alienshade Před 4 lety +11

      Only satanist christians think the world is round. Especially the capitalistic Christians from USA that love Trump the demon lord Nurgle. Ha ha I needed to write that sorry.

  • @devagarwal1591
    @devagarwal1591 Před 5 lety +767

    This is spiralling out of control.

  • @ESPONO974
    @ESPONO974 Před 5 lety +444

    I've learned about gaussian curvature when the Klein Bottle professor explained to me how to correctly hold a pizza slice!

  • @zwitter689
    @zwitter689 Před 5 lety +115

    I don't know if what I enjoyed more - Hannah's narration or the mathematics. Both are delightful

  • @RhejMacTavish
    @RhejMacTavish Před 5 lety +415

    "Mathematically beautiful, if Geographically impractical" 😂

    • @williammook8041
      @williammook8041 Před 4 lety +7

      We're using this to assemble big spherical concentrators in space to make really low mass solar power systems. So, we find it technically practical.

    • @grarglejobber7941
      @grarglejobber7941 Před 4 lety +5

      Shut your dirty mouth Hannah Fry is perfection

    • @hehted
      @hehted Před 4 lety +2

      Gotta get the T Shirt!

    • @eastvandb
      @eastvandb Před 4 lety +2

      @@williammook8041
      That sounds very interesting. Who is the 'we' in that comment?

    • @zachperez8937
      @zachperez8937 Před 3 lety +2

      @@williammook8041 but still not geographically practical :(

  • @emperorpicard6474
    @emperorpicard6474 Před 5 lety +592

    Imagine folding the Euler Spiral map in the car.

    • @johnfrancisdoe1563
      @johnfrancisdoe1563 Před 5 lety +15

      Simon Moore No problem. You are not folding the spiral, you are folding a piece of paper with the flattened spiral on it. So it's like a nice long map that has one or two folds in the short direction and an easy harmonica in the other.

    • @gumunduringigumundsson9344
      @gumunduringigumundsson9344 Před 4 lety +1

      Nooooooooo...

    • @gumunduringigumundsson9344
      @gumunduringigumundsson9344 Před 4 lety +1

      @@johnfrancisdoe1563 yeah.. better than what I remember.

    • @multi-mason
      @multi-mason Před 4 lety +4

      You could reel it up on two spindles.

    • @JLHunter61
      @JLHunter61 Před 4 lety +1

      @Multi Mason So basically like a new Torah?

  • @fishypaw
    @fishypaw Před 5 lety +807

    I love Hannah's presenting "style", relaxed but enthusiastic at the same time. I've always been a bit of nerd when it comes to peeling oranges. One of my favourites is to make a little lantern out of it. I also remember seeing (in my grandpa's magic book) a way of peeling an orange that allows you to remove the orange but the peel stays as a sphere that can expand to get the orange out but keeps the overall shape. I've forgotten how to do it though. I'll need to see if I can find out how to do it again. I doubt it would work as a map though, but it looks cool.

    • @GreeneyedApe
      @GreeneyedApe Před 5 lety +15

      Hey, a globe is the best kind of map we have! :)

    • @ffggddss
      @ffggddss Před 5 lety +1

      @@GreeneyedApe Yup, hands down! Except when you want something you can fold up and put in a drawer or a glove box.
      Fred

    • @witmoreluke
      @witmoreluke Před 5 lety +4

      @@ffggddss Inflatable globe! However, globes are rather impractical for typical driving directions.

    • @gustavgnoettgen
      @gustavgnoettgen Před 5 lety +1

      A spiral would work, but I guess it was a more compact shape?

    • @olivialuv1
      @olivialuv1 Před rokem

      I wanna hear more about your grandpa's magic book

  • @joshuagriffiths3991
    @joshuagriffiths3991 Před 5 lety +485

    "I think we should prioritize mathematical beauty over geographical practicality." - Hannah Fry
    I can't tell you how much I love this statement.

  • @michaeljohnregalado4798
    @michaeljohnregalado4798 Před 4 lety +565

    Hannah Fry: “We’ve only got this room for an hour. What should we do?”
    Obviously cut up a globe into an Euler spiral

    • @JLHunter61
      @JLHunter61 Před 4 lety +63

      My reply would have been inappropriate!

    • @jollyjokress3852
      @jollyjokress3852 Před 3 lety

      😂😂

    • @joyboricua3721
      @joyboricua3721 Před 3 lety +2

      Lock the door

    • @americantoastman7296
      @americantoastman7296 Před 3 lety +28

      @@JLHunter61 can incels just get outta here?

    • @jacobschiller4486
      @jacobschiller4486 Před 3 lety +26

      @@americantoastman7296 lol dude the original comment was an obvious setup for lewd jokes. stop getting offended on behalf of other people, dickface.

  • @muzvid
    @muzvid Před 5 lety +67

    My favorite map of the globe was designed by Buckminster Fuller. It projects the earth's surface onto an icosahedron, distributing the distortions across 20 triangles. It also radiates the continents out from the north pole, displaying the world as basically one large land-mass surrounded by one continuous ocean. As much as possible, the cuts are in the ocean.

  • @LuxuryDigitalAgenci
    @LuxuryDigitalAgenci Před 5 lety +849

    New Hannah Fry video?!?!? It's like christmas to me

  • @oHawkeyeo
    @oHawkeyeo Před 4 lety +1597

    If hannah fry was my maths lecturer, I wouldn't miss a class

    • @keithwilson6060
      @keithwilson6060 Před 4 lety +281

      And neither would we really ever learn anything.

    • @Dragondave17real
      @Dragondave17real Před 4 lety +214

      I came to the comments section for this.
      CZcams: Numberphile in title
      My brain: HannahFryphile

    • @TheAce736
      @TheAce736 Před 4 lety +109

      I'm glad I'm not the only one with those embarrassing lapses in focus.

    • @dougg1075
      @dougg1075 Před 4 lety +62

      What? Sorry I wasn’t paying attention.

    • @blorkpovud1576
      @blorkpovud1576 Před 4 lety +11

      I'm so lazy, I probably still would.

  • @WalrusRiderEntertainment
    @WalrusRiderEntertainment Před 4 lety +466

    Your subscribers are now 3.2 million but I am wondering who was the Pi millionth subscriber 🤔

    • @SeanCMonahan
      @SeanCMonahan Před 3 lety +173

      There couldn't have been! Don't be irrational.

    • @legislativequeery
      @legislativequeery Před 3 lety +12

      That number does not belong to the set of countable numbers.

    • @angelogandolfo4174
      @angelogandolfo4174 Před 3 lety +13

      There wasn’t one. The queue for that title is infinite, so the person queuing for it, would have had nowhere to stand......

    • @dwc1970
      @dwc1970 Před 3 lety +29

      @@legislativequeery There is at least the 3,141,592nd subscriber (or 3,141,593rd if you round it up).

    • @legislativequeery
      @legislativequeery Před 3 lety +7

      @@dwc1970 Yes, if π≠π such that π ∈ ℚ→ ∃ π*10⁵ ∈ ℕ
      But that would break math

  • @jalabi99
    @jalabi99 Před 5 lety +2226

    Hello, I am from the Flat Orange Society. Mind if we have a word?...

    • @ancientindianguru1714
      @ancientindianguru1714 Před 5 lety +29

      The Earth is Flat. These are bunch of projections. This is not our real map. This is a small map of small part of Earth. Who knows what they're doing in Antarctica.

    • @dastgahjoosh
      @dastgahjoosh Před 5 lety +32

      @@ancientindianguru1714 Hahahaha

    • @alfredodominguez2799
      @alfredodominguez2799 Před 5 lety +13

      @@ancientindianguru1714 if we end the federal government we can take back nasa and area 51 and we can find out whats really going on.

    • @Superknullisch
      @Superknullisch Před 5 lety +35

      @@alfredodominguez2799 Yes, I heard they are developing some serious high tech pasta!!!

    • @fotofillholland
      @fotofillholland Před 5 lety +6

      Thank your lucky stars you're not from the Flat Easy Peeler Society, I want to know why there's a conspiracy against my satsumas.

  • @gussnarp
    @gussnarp Před 5 lety +230

    As a geographer, I really loved this video and learning about this new projection. This projection shares a feature with the Mercator projection. On the Mercator projection there is one place where there is zero distortion, which is the equator, where the cylinder would touch the sphere. The Euler spiral enables you to create a similar line of zero distortion that encompasses the whole globe. Of course, in both cases the true line of zero distortion is a one dimensional line, which is why you have to go to infinity in the spiral to get there, but I completely see the beauty in this. I love it.

    • @samiramin5895
      @samiramin5895 Před 5 lety +9

      thanks, this helped me understand what they meant by "no distortion"!

    • @brendonholder2522
      @brendonholder2522 Před 5 lety

      gussnarp could you explain this further for me?

    • @sonaruo
      @sonaruo Před 5 lety +1

      @@brendonholder2522 when you have a curved surface mapping it in 2d you get some distortion
      but when you make the strips since you can make them really tiny stripes
      while you still get distortion it will be smaller
      practically the centre line of each stripe will have no distortion
      which in practice means you will have more points of no distortion of your end map
      if you theoretical you can get stripes the size of line you will end with no distortion at all

    • @brendonholder2522
      @brendonholder2522 Před 5 lety +4

      ANIKHTOS that’s really interesting! I’m writing an paper (an Internal Assessment Math investigation for the IB Diploma Program) and I’m thinking of using an Euler spiral to make a map such that you can move in vectors on the map in a manner similar to that of a Mercator projected map. Any suggestions on how to go about investigating this?

    • @sonaruo
      @sonaruo Před 5 lety +3

      @@brendonholder2522
      well i have not seen any map
      but the most serious question is how the coordinate system would look like??
      the longitude lines wil be inside the strip going up left to down right depending how you cut the spirals from the globe
      while the latitude will be almost vertical line at the strip
      i imagine the goals is the spiral will match the latitude lines to be one big line???
      besides how weird it will look like
      since the map lets see reaches perfect of the globe that means you have 2d representation of a 3d surface
      so even if you make vectors in the map
      you need to have 3d geometry to calculate their values
      and that will be for the 2 circular parts
      what about the line that connects them??
      some points (area of the globe ) will not be in either the 2 circular parts put in the line connecting them
      so you will have to split the formula for the circular part and the line part
      but we need a visual of this projection to see where everything has moved in
      is the spiral actually form a circular area or not?? or there is tiny gaps in between ??
      or you will make a tine distortion there and make it a circular part?
      after all you will not be able to cut infinite stripes so you will introduce some distortion in the end

  • @rhubarbjin
    @rhubarbjin Před 5 lety +227

    4:05 “There are a few different options here, but none of them are going to get you completely around this problem.”
    I see what you did there.

    • @randomdude9135
      @randomdude9135 Před 5 lety +2

      Cutting earth spirally?

    • @hehted
      @hehted Před 4 lety +2

      Yeah. Why not?

    • @rhubarbjin
      @rhubarbjin Před 2 lety

      @Noel Coward "...get *completely around* the problem" ;)

  • @dingaia
    @dingaia Před 5 lety +138

    love hannah

  • @DemoEvolvedGaming
    @DemoEvolvedGaming Před 5 lety +397

    Are you telling me there is no Euler Spiral map of the earth generated by computer with n=9999 anywhere on the internet?

    • @descuddlebat
      @descuddlebat Před 5 lety +45

      yet.

    • @joso5681
      @joso5681 Před 5 lety +109

      I trust that by writing this comment I will be notified when this happens

    • @jessedevault3533
      @jessedevault3533 Před 5 lety +35

      I would like to be added to this list.

    • @pizzameninvaded7251
      @pizzameninvaded7251 Před 5 lety +15

      As would I

    • @jordanzish
      @jordanzish Před 5 lety +62

      RemindMe! 2 days
      And yes this is the first entry in an impromptu petition to implement Reddit's RemindMe bot on CZcams. Spread the word.

  • @infantryhawk
    @infantryhawk Před 2 lety +14

    I never get tired of the deadpan humor on this channel, great work as always guys.

  • @Zambicus
    @Zambicus Před 5 lety +128

    "When I went to university, this is not how I imagined my life would turn out"
    Same...

    • @rickbluecloud531
      @rickbluecloud531 Před 4 lety +4

      That's because university is just a continuation of the public school indoctrination. Real scholars can do as well or better apart from the university...especially now that we have internet, and all the knowledge on earth is easily accessible to many millions.

    • @ChangedMyNameFinally69
      @ChangedMyNameFinally69 Před 4 lety +7

      @@rickbluecloud531 Stop bringing politics up where it doesn't belong. We get it, school bad because it teaches you about slavery. Shut up already

    • @rickbluecloud531
      @rickbluecloud531 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ChangedMyNameFinally69 there are political aspects to this issue that need to be considered if it's going to be correctly understood. And I'll continue sharing whatever I'm led to share by the Spirit. I have no regard for arrogant demands by rude people.

    • @ChangedMyNameFinally69
      @ChangedMyNameFinally69 Před 4 lety +3

      @@rickbluecloud531 What political aspects? Them teaching you that slavery happened? I'm genuinely curious.
      What Spirit?

    • @rickbluecloud531
      @rickbluecloud531 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ChangedMyNameFinally69 your comment is rather incoherent anyway. Maybe you should proofread and make corrections after you sober up.

  • @Kentnstay
    @Kentnstay Před 5 lety +163

    A Euler Spiral map would be a great piece of Numberphile merch.

  • @geryon
    @geryon Před 5 lety +719

    Google maps doesn't use Mercator anymore. It's a globe now.

    • @AleksyGrabovski
      @AleksyGrabovski Před 5 lety +92

      It never used Mercator projection either. The projection that was used called Web Mercator.

    • @5hirtandtieler
      @5hirtandtieler Před 5 lety +71

      Well, sorta…it still uses it for mobile :)

    • @KurtisBlack
      @KurtisBlack Před 5 lety +18

      Interesting! You know, I don't think I've ever zoomed out enough to notice that

    • @EebstertheGreat
      @EebstertheGreat Před 5 lety +149

      "Web Mercator" is just a shittier Mercator that's easier to compute.

    • @00bean00
      @00bean00 Před 5 lety +78

      @@AleksyGrabovski omegalul. "It's not English, It's British English!"

  • @djtomoy
    @djtomoy Před 3 lety +24

    Rediscovering some numberphile videos is a reminder of how much of an inspiration classic CZcams used to be. Numberphile and computerphile really did help me realise I could still learn new things in my late 20s and early 30s 💕

    • @Raison_d-etre
      @Raison_d-etre Před 9 měsíci

      You think you learned something, but it's just trivia. Popular science (or math) is not college science (or math).

    • @SP-qi8ur
      @SP-qi8ur Před 6 měsíci

      @@Raison_d-etreof course one learns

  • @gevillgar
    @gevillgar Před 5 lety +395

    Bradey: What is it doing that other maps aren't doing?
    Hannah: ... It's an Euler spiral Bradey, what more do you want?
    Exactly what I was thinking! haha

  • @lumer2b
    @lumer2b Před 5 lety +125

    I think it's important to say why/how Mercator is useful for navigation. A straight line in Mercator is not a straight line in real life, however, if you navigate with a compass, your compass will remain pointing to the same direction throughout your line.

    • @XenoghostTV
      @XenoghostTV Před 5 lety +2

      The video isn't specifically about the Mercator projection, dude

    • @brendonholder2522
      @brendonholder2522 Před 5 lety +4

      Would you happen to know if a reference that explains this in detail?

    • @Banzybanz
      @Banzybanz Před 5 lety +4

      @@XenoghostTV Dr. Fry talks about Mercator and why it is used so commonly, especially in navigation.
      But a straight line (a geodesic) in the real world always corresponds to a curved line on a Mercator map. For example, the shortest path between Mumbai and New York passes through western Russia, Swender, Norway and Iceland. If you looked at the Mercator map you'd think it went through Arabia and North Africa, and those are quite far away.
      What lumer2b wrote is correct. Mercator is useful when navigating with a compass.

    • @XenoghostTV
      @XenoghostTV Před 5 lety

      @@Banzybanz Okay but that's not the damn point of the video...

    • @DavidMFChapman
      @DavidMFChapman Před 5 lety

      It’s called the rhumb line. It’s not far off the great circle route, with the advantage that you can steer a constant heading.

  • @micahlong2073
    @micahlong2073 Před 5 lety +25

    8:51 "Turns out the world is really big"

    • @jlco
      @jlco Před 4 lety +2

      [citation needed]

  • @maxgusatz5644
    @maxgusatz5644 Před 5 lety +1

    Awesome on Tomorrow's World tonight Hannah. Such great memories of a real favourite childhood programme.

  • @chesh1re_cat
    @chesh1re_cat Před 4 lety +24

    *Playing with trash on the floor*
    "It's worth it for the mathematical beauty!"

  • @BrettCoryell
    @BrettCoryell Před 5 lety +15

    Map-matically beautiful projection. Love all the Hannah Fry vids. Keep 'em coming.

  • @c.contrafactum584
    @c.contrafactum584 Před 5 lety +612

    Send the orange man to the hydraulic press channel, and we'll see if he'll still have a positive gausian curve number

    • @TheJbertolino
      @TheJbertolino Před 5 lety +5

      Yes!

    • @RogerBarraud
      @RogerBarraud Před 5 lety +11

      The trick is knowing when to stop...
      :-/

    • @aldobernaltvbernal8745
      @aldobernaltvbernal8745 Před 5 lety +4

      Cataphractos Contrafactum this may be a joke, but it will.

    • @MattH-wg7ou
      @MattH-wg7ou Před 4 lety +13

      "Velcome to heeoodlraawlik plress channel...."
      Or "velcome to beyond depressed" (Beyond the Press, their second channel)
      "Vat de faak!?"

    • @Ardjano234
      @Ardjano234 Před 4 lety

      it will have tears and wrinkles because it has to go somewhere

  • @Dragondave17real
    @Dragondave17real Před 4 lety +225

    If Hannah Fry was my math lecturer, I would take extra lessons.

  • @frankbruno7122
    @frankbruno7122 Před 4 lety +4

    Thank you.. Great fun and great presentation! I'm 62 with two degrees from university.. but I did not major in mathematics or physics.. now I find myself wanting to start over.. this is wonderfully engaging.
    Frank from Boulder, Colorado, USA

  • @jaybenton7716
    @jaybenton7716 Před 5 lety +465

    I thought it was pronounced "oiler"?

  • @JJ-kl7eq
    @JJ-kl7eq Před 5 lety +335

    Euranges. Yummmmm.

  • @zacharybigger4144
    @zacharybigger4144 Před 5 lety +8

    It doesn't actually have to be geographically impractical if you're trying to travel in a straight line... We have different projections for small pieces of the globe that are minimally distorted. So if you adjust the "poles" of the projection to a place that'll allow your course to fall along the spiral, you can have a nearly undistorted map of your course the whole way!!

  • @user-kq2lk6uj3v
    @user-kq2lk6uj3v Před 5 lety +25

    We got ourselves a new mathematical object: New Zealand-preserving map :D

  • @niclaskristiansen9533
    @niclaskristiansen9533 Před 5 lety +38

    YES, one of my favorite people on this channel!

  • @danwhiteman9210
    @danwhiteman9210 Před 5 lety +12

    Before just now the Dymaxion map was my favorite projection, but now the Euler Spiral projection takes the cake.

    • @KnakuanaRka
      @KnakuanaRka Před 5 lety

      Dan Whiteman I prefer the Winkel-Tripel projection (or however you spell it); way less distortion than Mercator, but still familiar enough to be easily used.

  • @ManifoldSky
    @ManifoldSky Před 5 lety +16

    The example given evinces an interesting ingrained geometrical and psychological bias that, if bypassed, increases the utility of using an Euler spiral. As can be seen in the physical globe ball that was cut up, the area of greatest utility (at least for use in mapping) occurs at the centers of each spiral (the start and end cuts). Conversely, the these are the areas of least utility for most uses on a map. But it is oddly ingrained psychologically to think we need to start the process at the poles. But clearly this is not the case. If, instead, one starts the cut in the center of North America, or the Eurasian land mass, and pick a point precisely so that portion of the cutting that becomes the long connecting arm between the spirals rests in the middle of the ocean (or some other arbitrarily chose point of least interest). one gets an Euler spiral projection of greater utility.

  • @thomasborgsmidt9801
    @thomasborgsmidt9801 Před 5 lety +536

    Euler is pronounced: Oiler. Preferably with an Australian accent.
    Just for Your informationtion.

    • @pmam1968
      @pmam1968 Před 5 lety +38

      Thomas Borgsmidt And Fresnel is pronounced “Freynel”, IIRC.

    • @AiZeno
      @AiZeno Před 5 lety +10

      Thanks. I was pronouncing it as "Ew-ler" xD

    • @BaronSamedi1959
      @BaronSamedi1959 Před 5 lety +18

      Which proves that Australia does not exist. Or so I learned somewhere on the Internet..

    • @Kori114
      @Kori114 Před 5 lety +5

      Yeah, exactly what I was gonna say.

    • @krakenmetzger
      @krakenmetzger Před 4 lety +4

      oiahlah

  • @maigretus1
    @maigretus1 Před 5 lety +101

    As a retired US Navy officer, this is pretty interesting. It looks like this projection is what you would get by cutting along a rhumb line, which is the line you get by taking a constant compass course from one pole to the other. Or in other words, you cross every meridian at the same angle. The biggest virtue of the Mercator Projection, as Hannah noted is that every rhumb line on a Mercator Projection is a straight line. One of the faults of the Mercator Projection is that great circles (shortest distance between two points on the sphere) are not. I believe that, except for the meridians and the Equator, they are all sine waves on the Mercator projection.
    Would this projection also have great circles as straight lines, if chopped up straight lines?

    • @ejetzer
      @ejetzer Před 5 lety +2

      maigretus1 Intuitively, I think any great circle would need to go through the long arm between the spirals, and so would not be a straight line.

    • @davidblackman8015
      @davidblackman8015 Před 5 lety +3

      You'd get a single line that is infinitely thin for an infinitely long line so it wouldn't preserve angles at all, so great circles couldn't be calculated very easily. The position of an object on the surface of the line (if it has a finite width, so not at the limit where it goes to infinity etc) would be a function of the width of the line and a periodic function. You could produce a version of this with different limits exactly how you describe, you're an engineer, you know this stuff, the limit being that your compass direction to produce an infinite line would be exactly east or west starting at exactly the north or south Pole. Given that this is a right angle, it would take some time to travel it.

    • @johnosguthorpe09
      @johnosguthorpe09 Před 5 lety

      That is because the earth is flat and they project it onto a 3d surface

    • @johnosguthorpe09
      @johnosguthorpe09 Před 5 lety

      which is then projected (with a different transform) onto a 2d surface

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 Před 5 lety

      OSSSSHHHH The Earth is not flat.

  • @pierreabbat6157
    @pierreabbat6157 Před 5 lety +47

    My upcoming math papers are about Euler spirals and transverse Mercator projections, so of course I clicked on this.
    Mercator is NOT projected from the center. That would magnify too much along the meridians. You project from the South Pole, then take the logarithm of the resulting y-coordinate.

  • @Hermanhusband
    @Hermanhusband Před 4 lety

    Charming and very practical! Spirals from different starting points provide multi-plex code potential placing place names opposite other place names to make word list. Change angle of attack and point of first scissoring into the blow up globe and you can develop unique word order sequence. Code key would be 4 items: Long-Lat of start, angle of attack, choose your first place word, such as "Chicago", and finally which way to amble, either left or right (poleward or spinward are obviated by initial attack and can't be used as constant)

  • @bernardo013
    @bernardo013 Před 5 lety

    Although this is to be expected, it was neat to see [in practice] that the Equator is contained along the path between each of the two spirals. Super cool!

  • @henryseg
    @henryseg Před 5 lety +5

    I looked into this question of getting the Mercator projection by projecting a light - in order to do it you'd have to do some funny business on the map to the cylinder. The problem is that the Mercator projection involves a natural log for the y-coordinate, while projecting light rays is all intersections of lines with spheres and cones, which can only get you algebraic maps.

    • @peterdenner3447
      @peterdenner3447 Před 2 lety

      Absolutely right - what Hannah describes would give you the perspective cylindrical projection, not the Mercator.

  • @Jamdog95
    @Jamdog95 Před 5 lety +28

    Cheeky 1:09! The position of the stalk is just perfect 🍊 😂

    • @zapdude1
      @zapdude1 Před 5 lety +8

      Naked Orange Peel man is same proportions as naked Orange Man according to Stormy...

  • @bgill7475
    @bgill7475 Před 4 lety +12

    4:01 I feel so bad for him.

  • @IsraRM
    @IsraRM Před rokem +1

    Great video! I'd like to see another one like this, explaining Euler's spiral in the context of Fresnel diffraction.

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 Před 5 lety +3

    Nice video on map projections. Of course cartographers have several others used over-the-years, and for various applications. Thanks for the arXiv link as well.

  • @suleimanmustafa1473
    @suleimanmustafa1473 Před 5 lety +6

    This helps explain is the reason why countries closer to the equator appear smaller compared to those closer to the poles

  • @MrGryph78
    @MrGryph78 Před 4 lety +6

    1:09 oh look at his little "stalk" 😍

  • @Toon81ehv
    @Toon81ehv Před 4 lety +1

    I love that nerdy grin at 7:58!

  • @zambo6453
    @zambo6453 Před 5 lety +3

    interestingly my mum always pre-peeled my oranges for school in such a spiral, only peeling the orange rind and leaving the pith intact, and leaving the rind just attached by a little bit at the base and wrapped around to preserve the freshness. I also commonly see people peel apples in spirals like this to bake - I think it just feels right as somehow there is less resistance to the peeling motion when you follow this path because it lies flat against the fruit instead of bending up and fighting against you

  • @user-cn5pm7zg1u
    @user-cn5pm7zg1u Před 5 lety +15

    YES HANNAH FRY!!!

  • @leonjones7120
    @leonjones7120 Před 2 lety

    I read about this ages ago. Its been on my mind when I had a conversation with someone about globe maps in a flat plane. thanks!

  • @ghollisjr
    @ghollisjr Před 4 lety +47

    Hannah's voice is perfect for ASMR.

    • @owenhunt
      @owenhunt Před 4 lety +6

      OOh bro, it's off to the Gulags with you.

    • @owenhunt
      @owenhunt Před 4 lety +2

      @@dixztube Like. I think IQ videos are supposed to animate us to life. Nobody should be thinking ASMR on a Geophysics video.

  • @sickerpuppies
    @sickerpuppies Před 5 lety +4

    This was the purest, and honestly beautiful thing I have seen on CZcams in quite a while. I was captivated.

  • @imscott7
    @imscott7 Před 5 lety +5

    You had me at “mathematically beautiful” ❤️

  • @boredgrass
    @boredgrass Před 2 lety

    For me this is the most beautiful video about science I know.

  • @albertbatfinder5240
    @albertbatfinder5240 Před 5 lety +1

    “We’ve only got this room booked for another hour.”
    Steady my trembling soul.

  • @zangeh
    @zangeh Před 5 lety +62

    "yuuler"
    :[ Hannah why

  • @TheOfficialCzex
    @TheOfficialCzex Před 5 lety +4

    Very informative! I love map projection mathematics.

  • @jackallread
    @jackallread Před 4 lety

    Very nice!!
    Great job Hanah!!! Thanks

  • @FLS96
    @FLS96 Před 2 lety

    I like the phrasing "peel the surface of the Earth to make a map". The orange analogy is super easy to understand!

  • @Chewychaca
    @Chewychaca Před 5 lety +82

    I want a video about what the animator has to go through lol

  • @charliemetzler
    @charliemetzler Před 5 lety +4

    Check out Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map or Fuller map is a projection of a world map onto the surface of an icosahedron, which can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions. The flat map is heavily interrupted in order to preserve shapes and sizes.

    • @Unmannedair
      @Unmannedair Před 4 lety

      actually there is still distortion. The distortion is minimized and localized to the centroid of each facet in the icosahedron. It's flatter, but not on the same scale an this euler coil.

  • @charliemetzler
    @charliemetzler Před 3 lety +1

    You missed the "Dymaxion Map," the Fuller Projection Map - the only flat map of the entire surface of the Earth which reveals our planet as one island in one ocean, without any visually obvious distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents. It was developed by R. Buckminster Fuller who "By 1954, after working on the map for several decades," finally realized a satisfactory deck plan of Spaceship Earth.

    • @hareecionelson5875
      @hareecionelson5875 Před 3 lety

      Ordered one off amazon a couple days ago, I love it, I like flattening it out imagining the migration of humans out of Africa ~60,000 years ago

  • @KipIngram
    @KipIngram Před 3 měsíci

    Her dad did it because that's the kind of things dads do. Childhood is a magical time, and encouraging that sense of wonder in your kids is a fantastic thing.

  • @luismijangos7844
    @luismijangos7844 Před 5 lety +83

    Hannah is amazingly intelligent and super lovable. Amazing math.

    • @paulkita
      @paulkita Před 5 lety +27

      You spelled mouth wrong :o

    • @marko514
      @marko514 Před 5 lety +4

      Pawel Kita looool

  • @Astrobrant2
    @Astrobrant2 Před 5 lety +7

    I never would have figured that I would get one of my best laughs in a long time by watching a math video.

  • @KplusU
    @KplusU Před 5 lety +1

    I appreciate you so much Hannah Fry!!!!!!!!!

  • @theubercaste
    @theubercaste Před 4 lety +1

    I never knew that peeling a fruit could be so incredibly alluring.

  • @Jonescan55
    @Jonescan55 Před 4 lety +7

    Living in Canada and having access to roads that travel directly north to as near the pole as possible, there are deviations in the route which are called correctionals. They are the euhler equivalent of the orange peel or strip map created in the video. I prefer the Mercator map. It spreads out the imperfections evenly and appears to give a lesser distortion.
    Thank you for your efforts to explain a difficult subject in an entertaining way

  • @goingquentin
    @goingquentin Před 5 lety +250

    "youler spiral" oh no

  • @rand0mn0
    @rand0mn0 Před 8 měsíci

    Very well done, and down-to-Earth. Lively and fun, and technically accurate. Euler, as in Beuller! That's great!

  • @hannahblalock
    @hannahblalock Před 5 lety

    Fascinating! Thanks for the video!

  • @Wishfetcher
    @Wishfetcher Před 4 lety +7

    Today I discovered the pattern I've always doodled is actually a beautiful mathematical shape.

  • @benjamingrant4733
    @benjamingrant4733 Před 5 lety +71

    Thanks, Hannah, your mispronunciation has reminded me that I’ve got to get an Eul change for my car today…

    • @TARS..
      @TARS.. Před 4 lety +4

      A yuul change

  • @gendoikari6062
    @gendoikari6062 Před 4 lety +1

    I've never seen map projections that beautiful...!

  • @brendarua01
    @brendarua01 Před 5 lety

    This is wonderfully done. It demonstrates that every type of map has it's pluses and minuses.
    I bet you could do a great presentation of how the requirement for spherical trig in celestial navigation, yielding a great circle route, is a proof of the round Earth. Plane geometry, the option for a flat earth fails; it would get you lost if not killed. It would be enlightening to discuss how each can be treated as a testable hypothesis which models a world view.

  • @10xzen
    @10xzen Před 4 lety +3

    "As a map projection, this is mathematically beautiful if geographically impractical." Brilliantly elegant. 11:30

  • @RonJohn63
    @RonJohn63 Před 5 lety +3

    2:51 That form of projection was on one of the US evening news shows in the 1960s and 70s. I think CBS.

  • @teixeiradasilva6299
    @teixeiradasilva6299 Před 5 lety

    To see people so inspired makes me happy.

  • @Yupppi
    @Yupppi Před rokem

    Every university and person needs one Hannah in their life.

  • @vinayms1332
    @vinayms1332 Před 4 lety +112

    A mathematician pronouncing Euler as "Euler" is tantamount to a computer geek pronouncing LateX as "LateX".
    Hmm. That is better said than written.

    • @rajeshwarsharma1716
      @rajeshwarsharma1716 Před 4 lety +12

      Why cant we develop a system such that we spell and write as we proununce? (In English).

    • @zoltan1180
      @zoltan1180 Před 4 lety +8

      @@rajeshwarsharma1716 you mean like the hungarian language? :)

    • @stefano2324
      @stefano2324 Před 4 lety +7

      @@rajeshwarsharma1716 Italian language my friend

    • @jimydog0009
      @jimydog0009 Před 4 lety +31

      @@rajeshwarsharma1716 International Phonetic Alphabet my friend.

    •  Před 4 lety +4

      @@rajeshwarsharma1716 That's how we do it in the Balkans.

  • @hcblue
    @hcblue Před 5 lety +5

    Hannah Fry is just amazing haha

  • @fireballninja01
    @fireballninja01 Před 5 lety

    I wish y’all showed a simulated product with a ton of spirals, but thanks so much!!! Awesome video

  • @jamiehess754
    @jamiehess754 Před 4 lety

    As an astrophysicist-in-bloom, I got misty-eyed at this video. Such beauty!

  • @OceanBagel
    @OceanBagel Před 5 lety +10

    There are two types of map projections: Winkle tripel and wrong.

  • @BlackIndigenousPosse
    @BlackIndigenousPosse Před 5 lety +38

    "Leg, leg, arm, head"
    Sounds like she's a fan of the Wu-Tang Clan.

    • @cloudstrife7510
      @cloudstrife7510 Před 5 lety +1

      Arm leg leg arm head

    • @GustoFormula
      @GustoFormula Před 5 lety

      Rappers say they form like Voltron, that was a children's show.

    • @cloudstrife7510
      @cloudstrife7510 Před 5 lety +1

      @@GustoFormulaI Believe it's a religious thing. Many of the members of Wu-Tang clan are apart of the 5-percent nation which is a splinter group of the nation of Islam. Arm Leg Leg Arm Head Allah.

    • @GustoFormula
      @GustoFormula Před 5 lety +1

      @@cloudstrife7510 Oh right, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. I was referencing a song by a different artist referencing Wu-Tang just in case somebody would come by and catch it. But all I know is that GZA is the head.

    • @kwanarchive
      @kwanarchive Před 5 lety

      @@cloudstrife7510So they created a rap group named after a Daoism sect?

  • @hammettl
    @hammettl Před 4 lety

    Love it. Great look at radical map projections..

  • @joaquinjavaloyesruiz8040

    So beautiful. Everything is beautiful in this video.

  • @rapth
    @rapth Před 5 lety +75

    If you squish a 4D sphere to 3D sphere, does this rule still apply?

  • @anuzis
    @anuzis Před 5 lety +3

    Math question: what's the probability the stem position at 1:10 is purely coincidence given its surface area relative to the orange? A) less than 0.01, B) 0.01 to 0.03 C) 0.03 to 0.05, or D) over 0.05

  • @user-my9if4dz6q
    @user-my9if4dz6q Před 4 lety +1

    i really enjoyed this one. thanks for that

  • @jazzsoul69
    @jazzsoul69 Před 4 lety +1

    I really loved this video !