Eight Queens Problem

Our thanks to lynda.com - use our link: http://www.lynda.com/numberphile Dr James Grime discusses a famous chess problem - placing eight queens "safely" on a chess board. Some extra footage from this video will appear on Numberphile2 next Monday...

Today we posted some extra footage from the same interview with Dr James Grime.

Main video on the Eight Queens Problem: https://youtu.be/jPcBU0Z2Hj8 Race for Space: https://youtu.be/bZnzmmAod3w This video features Dr James Grime.

And in case you missed them, here are previous videos about the Knight's Tour.

MORE LINKS BELOW..... Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Tumblr: http://numberphile.tumblr.com The knight's tour and magic knight's tour. The first magic tour has an error (my fault in animation) with 62 and 64 transposed....

And the number of possible chess game configurations (Shannon's Number).

Squarespace (10% off): http://squarespace.com/numberphile Dr James Grime talking about the Shannon Number and other chess stuff. More soon on chess positions and numbers.