Ken Goldberg

I tried all these methods and it was basically extremely difficult to try and prove that it would work for all these geometries. I was living at the end of this alley and it was down some stairs and so I was sitting on my porch all the time just like working on this. I have this moment where this pops into my head to use this step function and it looks like stairs.

I remember writing down these equations and crossing off terms and everything turned into zero. And then it worked.

I remember writing down these equations and crossing off terms and everything turned into zero. And then it worked.

I remember writing down these equations and crossing off terms and everything turned into zero. And then it worked.

It was this moment where when the whole thing integrated to zero means that there had to be a solution for any polygonal part. Wow. Did it feel transcendent? It felt quite transcendent.

It was this moment where when the whole thing integrated to zero means that there had to be a solution for any polygonal part. Wow. Did it feel transcendent? It felt quite transcendent.

It was this moment where when the whole thing integrated to zero means that there had to be a solution for any polygonal part. Wow. Did it feel transcendent? It felt quite transcendent.

Totally. It was not something that I felt like I did. It was just revealed.

Totally. It was not something that I felt like I did. It was just revealed.

Totally. It was not something that I felt like I did. It was just revealed.

Yes. Very much. I still remember that very distinctly. And I'll admit that one of the equations on the tree is yours.

Yes. Very much. I still remember that very distinctly. And I'll admit that one of the equations on the tree is yours.

Yes. Very much. I still remember that very distinctly. And I'll admit that one of the equations on the tree is yours.

Yeah, that's your signature. I put it in there. Up with Gauss and Einstein.

Yeah, that's your signature. I put it in there. Up with Gauss and Einstein.

Yeah, that's your signature. I put it in there. Up with Gauss and Einstein.

The elegance of some of these. Euler's equation is the one that mathematicians truly love.

The elegance of some of these. Euler's equation is the one that mathematicians truly love.

The elegance of some of these. Euler's equation is the one that mathematicians truly love.

It's E to the I pi minus one equals zero. It's amazing because you have these three quantities. You have E. which is the natural logarithm, which is like this 2.78 blah, blah, blah. And then you have pi, 3.14159. And then you have i, which is for imaginary numbers. And those three, there's no reason that those should all relate.