Hamiltonian Paths in Antiquity - 360 Degree Live 4K Broadcast

About 1850, William Rowan Hamilton invented the Icosian Game, which involved finding a path that encounters all points of a network without retracing its steps. Variants of his game have turned out to be important in many modern computer applications.

The speaker will give evidence that people have been interested in such questions since at least Graeco-Roman times. Furthermore, ingenious Sanskrit and Arabic documents from the ninth century, and continuing through medieval times, also reveal that this is perhaps the oldest nontrivial combinatorial problem in the history of civilization.

The lecture will be live streamed in full spherical video (36o degrees) through an Orah 4i camera directly to YouTube. By using a computer mouse, or by tilting a smartphone or tablet, participants will be able to manipulate the video angle and experience 360-degree viewing.