Today’s video is about making sense of an infinite fraction that pops up in an anecdote about the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.
00:00 Intro
04:31 Chapter 1: Getting a feel for the puzzle
08:27 Chapter 2: Algebra autopilot
12:37 Chapter 3: Infinite fraction
17:51 Chapter 4: Root 2
21:19 Chapter 5: Euclidean algorithm
30:15 Chapter 6: The best of the best: 17/12
36:34 Chapter 7: Outramanujing Ramanujan
This was supposed to be a short video but in the end turned out to be quite a tricky to sort out. Anyway, as it sometimes happens, I got carried away and now the video really covers a lot of ground : Pell equations, visualising continued fractions by dissecting rectangles into squares, the relationship between continued fractions and the Euclidean algorithm, the irrationality of root 2. Overall quite a few things that you won’t find anywhere else :)
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