Math Facts that Sound Fake But are Actually True!

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
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Galactic Year
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8-cell
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2MASS LSS chart-New Nasa
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Revolving Earth
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Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

National Debt Screen Capture
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Andrew Wiles in 2005
Copyright C. J. Mozzochi, Princeton N.J
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Modular Elliptic Curves and Fermat's Last Theorem
Screen Grab of first page
Source: www.scienzamedia.uniroma2.it/~eal/Wiles-Fermat.pdf

Cubic Formula
Source: artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Cubic_Equat…

Quartic Formula
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Hands holding a bunch of playing cards
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Background of playing cards
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Timeline of the Universe
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Evariste Galois
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Neils Henrik Abel
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Paolo Ruffini
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Pierre de Fermat
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