Scholar Sauce | Math Facts that Sound Fake But are Actually True! @scholarsauce | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
There are tons of incredible counterintuitive facts in the amazing world of mathematics. In this video, we explore a handful of them. Tell me in the comments if you were surprised by any of these facts and whether you would like to see even more math facts that sound fake but are actually true!


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Neanderthal Flintworkers, Le Moustier Cavern, DorDogne, France
License: Public Domain
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neanderthal_Flintworkers_(Knight,_1920).jpg

Galactic Year
License: Public Domain
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milky_Way_Arms_ssc2008-10.svg

8-cell
License: Public Domain
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:8-cell.gif

2MASS LSS chart-New Nasa
License: Public Domain
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2MASS_LSS_chart-NEW_Nasa.jpg

Revolving Earth
License: Public Domain
Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

National Debt Screen Capture
Website captured: Peter G. Peterson Foundation
pgpf.org/national-debt-clock

Andrew Wiles in 2005
Copyright C. J. Mozzochi, Princeton N.J
Used in compliance with license granted by copyright holder.
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_wiles1-3.jpg

Modular Elliptic Curves and Fermat's Last Theorem
Screen Grab of first page
Source: http://www.scienzamedia.uniroma2.it/~eal/Wiles-Fermat.pdf

Cubic Formula
Source: artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Cubic_Equation

Quartic Formula
Source: artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Quartic_Equation

Hands holding a bunch of playing cards
License: Public Domain
Source: goodfreephotos.com/public-domain-images/hand-holding-a-bunch-of-playing-cards.jpg.php

Background of playing cards
License: Public Domain
Source: publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=18743&picture=background-of-playing-cards

Timeline of the Universe
License: Public Domain
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CMB_Timeline300_no_WMAP.jpg

Evariste Galois
License: Public Domain
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evariste_galois.jpg

Neils Henrik Abel
License: Public Domain
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niels_Henrik_Abel_(1802_-_1829).jpg

Paolo Ruffini
License: Public Domain
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruffini-paolo-colour.webp

Pierre de Fermat
License: Public Domain
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_de_Fermat.jpg


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