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Author Simon Singh discusses mathematics in the TV show Futurama - specifically taxicab numbers and the great Ramanujan.
This video features 1729 and 87539319 among its stars.
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Also, in the episode where Bender meets Flexo, Bender thought that it was funny that they both had serial numbers that were "expressible as the sum of two cubes."
Futurama: "The Lesser of Two Evils", Season 2 Episode 6. (I just happen to know that off the top of my head.)
@@lolicanadian Thank you. Your memory has done a great service
Ramanujan looks like a badass.
He is.
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The situation hasn't changed in India, there are still people like Ramanujan working as clerks, unable to find their Hardy.
@@rylaczero3740 lol
In another episode of Futurama when they scan Bender's head the number 6502 shows up on his CPU chip which is a nod to the MOS-6502 which was the CPU used in for example the Atari 2600, the Nintendo NES (8bit) and the Commodore VIC-20.
You guys could do like a whole week of Futurama math and numbers jokes.
Keep bringing this guy back, he's awesome!
Brady, how can such an intelligent man have such a misguided mustache? Love your videos.
FranksDead It was Movember!
+Numberphile I said those exact words to multiple people at staff meetings last Movember. People generally stop being funny about it when you mention testicular cancer, though.
+Hogscraper Agreed.
I don't get it...
The state of it...
I remember when I read about Ramanujan, it was when I was looking at algorithms that converge on Pi rapidly, his series equation is in heavy use for this today - it was sad to read that he died so young, imagine the discoveries he could have made with that brilliant mind; yet only living to be 32 years old :/
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Yes!! I love Simon Singh! I've discovered Fermat's last theorem with his book!
At 2:26 it looks like the Pi symbol is on Simon's head...
Camaro zl1 huh k98 r 79
lel, i saw it ;D
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@@NoriMori1992 forehead
@@josesosa5944 inspirational
Ramanujan also lived on through that one little story in Good Will Hunting :)
6,963,472,309,248
Well, Prof. Singh, you are bringing awareness of Ramanujan now, and I appreciate your diligence:)
Also in futurama when bender meets flexo they mention their model numbers and their they are both the sum of two cubes
Taxicab number of rank 4 = 6,963,472,309,248
Yes, I caught the frame, too and ^this^ comment is typo-free. I'm kidding. I'm not actually replying to confirm his comment; I was just wanting to help float his comment to the top of the page.
One thing I like from Futurama kind of number related is in the one with the werecar. When he sees a bunch of ones and zeros on the wall and it doesn't mean anything, but then he sees it backwards and he freaks out. It was binary for something. I always wondered if it actually said anything. Knowing Futurama it probably did.
1010011010 is binary for 666.
Haha that actually makes me lol. I should have figured. Thanks for that.
I knew Ramanujan's story sounded familiar. His life was adapted into a movie: The Man Who Knew Infinity.
+Devon Farrier still in theatres
Taxicabnumber of rank 4= 6,963,472,309,248
For those that didn't notice, it appears *very briefly* in a frame of the video at @ 5:51 :-)
Redacted
Awareness of Ramanujan has been brought *now* even if it wasn't before.
i once found this:-
2736= 12^3+10^3+2^3 = 13^3+8^3+3^3
also 12+10+2=13+8+3
i think this is the smallest number which can be expressed as sum of 3 cubes in 2 different ways...
No, the smallest one is:
5^3+5^3+1^3=6^3+3^3+2^3=251.
And also in this case
5+5+1=6+3+2=11.
Their theorm stood for 3 years before swiftly being disproven in an Euler-esque way.
In the Futurama movie, "Benders Big Score", did the time code on Fry's ass translate into anything significant, like a message or equation? The one made of Zeros and Ones? I tried to Google it, but it seems to still be a mystery...
Dear Simon, I just got your book as a birthday gift. Very excellent piece if literature. I hope you continue to write more novels on the world of mathematics.
I will truly miss Futurama. Every episode had something brilliant hidden away somewhere. I was just watching an episode I'd seen before the other day and picked up on something I totally overlooked before. The writers for Futurama are some of the most smart and tallented people to work on television.
But they did it on Season 11, that Futurama was back.
People are about to get to know a lot more about Ramanujan in the general public
When Bender meets Flexo in "The Lesser of Two Evils", they recite their serial numbers and laugh, because they're both "expressible as the sum of two cubes."
thank you for this video, its always good to hear something interesting about math and futurama. the show has so many hidden references that not many "regular" viewers understand, total props to the writer with the Phd in applied math and please keep us looking for new hidden info.
In case anyone was wondering the first few numbers in the sequence are
1,729
4,104
13,832
20,683
32,832
39,312
40,033
46,683
64,232
65,728
110,656
110,808
134,379
149,389
165,464
171,288
195,841
216,027
216,125
262,656
314,496
320,264
327,763
373,464
402,597
439,101
443,889
513,000
513,856
515,375
525,824
558,441
593,047
684,019
704,977
I didn't catch any of this in Futurama, but I know for sure your explanation is raising awareness off Ramanujan.
6,963,472,309,248 is the first one of "rank 4", for people who don't want to try and pause at the exact right time around 5:50.
According to CZcams's viewership graph, most people watched that part, meaning they just kept rewinding to try to read it.
Huh... interesting, i'll take more notice of numbers in tv shows from now on :D great vid as always!
Dude, I just watched your reviews for today, and now, you're also on numberphile! This is pure awesome!
You are the smartest pineapple on earth.
Futurama was a show that was ingenious in every way. It is sad that it got cancelled. I specially loved their movies such as bender's big score and other favourites. It was just writing at its finest.
HEY NUMBERPHILE
can you do a video on season 6 episode 10 of futurama"The prisoner of benda" the professor makes a machine that switches minds but once you switch you cant switch back. I would love to see the mathematics of how many other people it would take to return everyone to their original bodies.
It's in his book
Alex Kasantsidis I think Mathologer did that
Futurama fans should watch the documentary about the maths in futurama featured on the DVD for Bender's Big Score, it's called "Bite my shiny metal X - a math lecture about math inside Futurama.". It's really good, especially if you like both Futurama and Numberphile
Holy Crap! 87 million views!!
I'm assuming it's because of the NPR SciFri segment. That is REALLY impressive.
Awesome work, Simon. Bringing math to the masses.
It doesn't have 87 million views...
Were you reading the title instead of the view count?
I dont like maths at all, but I like very much numberphile videos, they make maths look interesting and some sort easy
I love these Numberphile videos that are showing the homages to maths in pop culture! There are really cool people in the world!
In my maths class there's a timeline of great mathematicians from Pythagoras to Marcus du Sautoy. It's pretty wonderful.
Mr. Singh is very well spoken and quite insightful (I mean, beyond mathematics). I read one of his books, "The Code Book" quite a few years ago and enjoyed it. I think I will go look for another book or two of his, as well as go digging for some more Numberphile videos of him.
Maths was always my least favourite subject in school but the way Numberphile presents it is so enjoyable it makes me want to learn more.
Whenever I watch movies or shows and go through the trivia I love picking up on these sorts of little things.
They absolutely have raised awareness about maths and Ramanujan, because we are here talking about them!
there was a episode in futurama where a binary number appears on the wall in blood that doesnt seem to have any meaning but when it is mirrored it is 1010011010 (666), i thought that was kinda cool.
i was wondering about "Rank 1729"
I knew 1729 seemed familiar. I remember reading about Ramanajan (sp?) a while ago in a book called "Modern Science Writing". Good video, mate!
Thanks to this video and the person who linked to it on a programming forum I read, I'm now aware of these references in one of my favorite shows and aware of Ramanujan. I always wondered how they came up with so many math and programming references and didn't know one of the writers has a Phd in applied math. I might not be super into math, but there's an appreciable beauty in numbers that I always enjoy learning about when it's pointed out. Thank you for this video :D
One of the more beautiful Numberphile videos! Great. Bought the Singh book on the Kindle store recently. Very curious. Keep up the great work, Numberphile!
"Nothing I have ever done is of the slightest practical use" - G.H. Hardy
I think this quote perfectly SUMS up mathematics in general.
Oh yeah, hardy hated anything useful or practical, I mean seriously, he was a pure mathematician.
Thank you Simon! I love your books!
Those glasses... I want them... I must have them!
I've watched a few episodes on this channel, but I love Futurama and this video had me smitten.
These simon Singh episodes are awesome
I also remember another Futurama episode when Bender meets another robot and mentions that both of their serial numbers can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.
make a video about complex numbers , please
In "The Lesser of Two Evils", when Bender meets Flexo for the first time, they read off each other's serial numbers. They both share a laugh and when asked by Fry what is so funny, one of them replies "both numbers can be expressed as a sum of two cubes."
I love Simon's videos.
According to Wikipedia, here are some additional taxicab numbers Ta(n), where n is the "rank", as Simon put it (i.e. Ta(2) = 1,729 and Ta(3) = 87,539,319):
Ta(4) = 6,963,472,309,248
Ta(5) = 48,988,659,276,962,496
Ta(6) = 24,153,319,581,254,312,065,344
Interesting that 1729 is called the taxi cab number. Maybe that explains why this guy has the haircut from Scorsese's "taxi driver".
Ha, remember you talking about this last week! Love the one with bender in "the honking"
I hate saying this, but I might not have clicked on this video if I didn't see Bender on the thumbnail. So the fact that it was in Futurama has definitely increased knowledge of Ramanujan.
I'll also bring up this interesting fact the next time I am watching Futurama with some friends. We aren't all particularly interested in math, but it's an interesting fact.
Also, if someone were to see the number in Futurama and notice that it appears more than once, they might Google it and find out (maybe even find this video). That's tangential learning right there! I think it's awesome when writers do these kinds of things.
Greetings!
There's actually an episode of Futurama (Lesser of two evils, s02e06) where the sum of two cubes part is more concrete:
(ctrlc-ctrlv-d from infosphere)
"Bender states that both his and Flexo's serial numbers are expressible as the sum of two cubes. For Flexo's serial number, 3370318 = 119^3 + 119^3. Bender's serial number 2716057 = 952^3 + (-951)^3"
Really glad for finding your channel, its a delicacy for the mind :)
I love this guy Simon Singh!
I love this series.
Holy moly! This is the third video or so of this guy and I just NOW realized I have read one of his books a few years ago!
almost the same here. I read is book about the discovery of the big bang, I remembered the name, but it was just a minute ago that i finally got THAT guy in THIS video IS simon singh!
For me it was the book on Fermat's Last Theorem. Out of the ones not going in too much mathematicas certainly the best I know. I always remembered the name Simon Singh, it just sort of went completely past me that this is Simon Singh. Crazy!
I'm not very fond of mathematics and I didn't like it in school either, but I love this channel. Incredibly interesting.
This reminds me of A113 , which is constantly sneaking it's way into Pixar movies, it doesn't have a mathematical purpose but is really interesting.
Great video by the way, big fan of Futurama.
6,963,472,309,248
In case you couldn't be arsed to pause on that frame.
That is not Bender's serial number, it is 2716057. He mentions it when he finds out that Flexo's is 3370318 because of the low odds that both would have serial numbers that can be expressed by the sum of two cubes.
I love Futurama. So many hidden secrets. You can watch it again and again and there's always something new and interesting to find.
They hid an easter egg in the 1st episode, for many seasons later. I really miss it, but at least it ended well
Adam Collins It ended too early if you ask me, they still had at least 2-5 more seasons to go
Karl Hiramanek Yeah I'm sure they could've easily taken it further, however I'm glad they didn't pull a Simpsons and drag through the mud to keep going. It was a great show that lasted longer than most, didn't get stale and had an ending that was dignified, rather than let the show become irrelevant and die.
Not to say that it wouldn't be fun.
Like that time i was watching the second season over again and i realized that I have no friends. Aigf
Always amazing
Zero is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of two cubes in multiple ways. 1^3 + -1^3, 2^3 + -2^3, 3^3 + -3^3, 4^3 + -4^3, 5^3 + -5^3, etc.
Whole numbers...
they are whole. unless you mean positive, then yes.
I drop little things into my lectures and labs and tests all the time - sometimes a kid will catch one - it is neat how much some kids know. Sometimes they catch on to certain numbers I use all the time - 28, 57, 108, 213, 243, 1112, and 7235 - all units I served with in the Army.
This is brilliant! Love the inside joke
I remember one episode where between 3rd and 4th Street in New New York is π Street. Not a very intellectual maths joke, but that's when I first learned what π was when I was young.
Ramanujan knew how to pose for a picture
Simon Singh the first and only person I've heard say rah-mah-nuh-jin rather than rah-mah-NOO-zhen, and I gotta say I'm probably gonna trust his pronunciation of that
The book is awesome!
Great video
Brady surely looks more british during no shave november
It's called Movember here. You're allowed to shave, as long as you don't touch the moustache. Much more effective. Moustaches very often look a lot more ridiculous than beards.
:O didn't know that, Movember it is then :D as in Moustache November I suppose
The first couple paragraphs of the Wikipedia page for 1729 describes the taxi cab situation from the video, but the article calls the Hardy-Ramanujin numbers.
Was Ramanajan the guy mentioned by the professor in Good Will Hunting?
I can't believe I didn't realise that my recent maths trip to the University of London has Simon as a presenter. If i had known I would gone to ask him to sign my copy of the Simpsons book.
Okay you finally convinced me to get the book :D
I'm not a fan of math, studying psychology...but I found this fascinating.
India has not only got ramanujan,but also Shakunthala Devi,who holds world record in arithemetic,can you try to do a little research and videos on her brady???
I have attended one of Simons talks at skeptics in the pub in Birmingham. Very interesting stuff he also has a book about maths in the Simpsons must buy for a numberphile
hey Brady- thumbs up for your sick movember stash!
So is this the same Simon Singh that I signed petitions for a few years ago regarding the chiropratic libel lawsuit and tort reform?
yeah, this is your guy
omg and he's the guy who wrote a book about (and titled) Fermat's Last Theorum, which i read a few years ago and it was wonderful. The libel suit jogged my memory further. i'm going to buy his book immediately. baller.
The easter eggs in the futurama eps do nothing to promote Ramanujan because there is no context, his name is never used, people have no reason to take notice or care.
scruffy the janitor comments: yes, but that's not the point. the point is shows like numberphile who pick up on these easter eggs and delight their audience.
Well, more than 65 000 people know about it now. And easter eggs are ment to be easter eggs, not references.
In the context of just watching the show and having no prior knowledge, you're right. But, well, this numberphile video probably wouldn't exist without Futurama... and now we are all remembering Ramanujan's love of mathematics! ^^
but people who are interested in the series might spot the reappearence of the number and then look it up.
There is also an episode where Bender meets his 'evil' twin (same episode as they deliver the Miss Universe crown?) and they tell Fry that their serial numbers can both be expressed by the sum of two cubes.
Has it raised awareness? Well here we are leaning about it.
Man that is a filthy mo, Brady.
Love it.
6,963,472,309,248 the still frame about the 4th taxicab number.
"Kif says there are a million lines of basic..."
Funny. I just finished watching that episode about 20 minutes ago!
Yes , "the public has noticed". The entire Futurama is filled with Polish School of Mathematics.
Futurama features Banach-Tarski paradox, Mandelbrot set, and so on.
The Taxi Cab Number of rank 4 is 6,963,472,309,248 and the Taxi Cab Number of rank 5 is 48,988,659,276,962,496
Good stuff
It is also known as futurama theorem. i think it would make a really cool video!
Wow this guy is awesome!
5:56 Futurama is over. Forever. Damn you.