g-conjecture – Numberphile



Discussing h-vectors and the g-conjecture. Featuring June Huh from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.
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36 Comments

  1. Back then in school I didn't like this video much asking myself what have I learned exactly?

    Now in university, having learned some algebraic topology, I really appreciate June Huh's simplified presentation here

  2. Sometimes i get anxious watching old videos like this. Theres so many incredible advances that’s happened, if you want to be interdisciplinary, things like this could catch you off guard and cause you to reevaluate.

  3. I just realized from his definition of you think about a sphere is in different dimensions, that a 4d sphere, at least moving through 3d space would be a small sphere that grows to a maximum and shrinks again. For some reason I thought it would be the same size throughout but that would be more of a 4d spherical cylinder which is fun to think about on its own.

  4. If the substraction started from the left hand side. the result would be the binomial coefficient if the triangle is rotated.
    1
    1 5
    1 4 10
    1 3 6 10
    1 2 3 4 5
    1 1 1 1 1

    —rotate->

    1 1
    1 2 1
    1 3 3 1
    1 4 6 4 1
    1 5 10 10 5 1

    Looks like any polynomial can be turned into a triangulated sphere.

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