A final game with Elwyn Berlekamp (Amazons) - Numberphile 

This is one of the great things about your chosen profession Brady, you can record these people for posterity

May his soul RIP

Oh wow, rest in peace. Amazing that he could bring a final gift to the world before passing

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i hate the background music. it made the video unwatchable and had to stop. Im very sad, been watching you for years. please don't add background music in the future.

Why is it a sad moment? Think bigger.

Well at least he wasn't demented at the end, I don't know if he was actually smarter when he was younger but he seemed pretty competent here. And that's certainly better than barely even knowing your own name when you go.

@@mico6155 There are different cultural and personal interpretations of what death means. Neither your nor anyone else's perspective and emotions are invalidated by the existence of someone who interprets things differently. Indeed, one way to look at it is that this makes everyone's emotional journey more unique and, therefore, more precious to preserve. I would just ask you to reconsider using "autistic" in such a pejorative and condemning way. It's unjustified, it's uncalled for and, more over, technically incorrect, as what you describe is sociopathy anyway (and, in either case, autism or sociopathy, is it anything said person has any capacity to control, so any condemnation is, by definition, useless anyhow). Let's not turn our individual grief into a fight. A fight that cannot even be won, as there are no right nor wrong answers to how someone takes a loss like this. Because my own interpretation here, for example, is that this can be a reminder to us that all of our time here is inevitably limited - so let us not let the small unimportant stuff block the bigger important things that matter. We, sadly, don't really have the time.

KlaxonCow we need more people like you in the RU-vid comments

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How is he a legend? He was litteraly filmed

He won’t see this. He’s deceased.

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Yes, he will not be forgotten anytime soon.

Wait what?

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Thanks for everything

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F to pai respekts

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bagourat YES!!

I'm sure it would be great at it. This game actually seems more like go in its objective. Sure, it uses a chess piece, but you're basically giving yourself more owned territory than your opponent.

Can't imagine it would take AlphaZero long to master, given the relatively few moves you can do with only two characters. Pretty fast you should be able to calculate if you have won or not. But then again, i could be very wrong :)

If you are sad when people die, you will be sad 24/7. Death is a transition.

It's sad to see anybody pass away

@@StefanReich Do important computer scientists die 24/7?

Stefan Reich That is not how that works. One can only be sad about a death if one knows about said death, but any given person at any given event in spacetime only ever knows about a few deaths at most, one never knows about deaths 24/7.

@@StefanReich I'm sad when people I knew existed die I probably won't be sad when you die cause I don't know you but I will be sad when a friend or someone you taught me great mathematics games dies Edit typo

Quote isn't quite right. "The proudest thing that a teacher ever does is when he gets students who are better than him."

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Gandung Sadewo No, that is inaccurate. This game is significantly much more similar to go than to chess. In fact, the game only shares ONE similarity to chess, but that is as much of a similarity as it literally shares with checkers or backgammon. It's not a fusion of anything, not even metaphorically speaking.

@@angelmendez-rivera351 It plays absolutely nothing like Go

I still do

not really, I mean...

I want to become a mathematician too! :)

What is ur special intrest in?

who are you talking to, here in a comments section?

@@a51mj12 The late Mr. Berlekamp. Who are you talking to, with a "comments police" attitude?

I think you don't need a torus. If you can jump from one side of the board to the opposite side that would be sufficient. Isn't it?

No shady, that would be a sphere

@@MrHyde-fu5sr Actually, pacman is played on a torus, so Shady Radwan is right.

That's also a sphere. The wrap around functionality is the same for both but a torus is much longer along the x axis before wrap around compared to the y axis. On a sphere, both the x and y axes have equal travel distance before wrap around. Because the board of Amazon's is generally a perfect square, meaning both x and y travel have equal distance till wrap around and sphere is the correct categorization.

@@MrHyde-fu5sr hey there, it cannot be a sphere, actually you cannot transform a 2D square into a 3D sphere. You can transform a square (or a rectangle) into a torus. The dimensions of the torus depends on the ratio between the length and width of the rectangle. Let's have a thought experiment. Pause the video on the board, and imagine rolling it up around the x axis (screen width) and then wrap that tube in the third dimension around the y axis (connecting your ceiling with the floor). Now try moving from one edge to another. You will come in on the same row/column (depending on which edge) on the other side of the board. If it's difficult, try doing it on an actual piece of paper.

However you want probably, I doubt there are any "illegal" starting formations

That's correct.

there is an IOS app for it.

Hunter Clark app name? I don’t find it in the store searching “amazons”

It is. He also is responsible for Berlekamp's Algorithm for factoring polynomials.