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But why is a sphere's surface area four times its shadow? (3Blue1Brown) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 years ago by mrh to c/math

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[–] Artisian 2 points 2 years ago

I really appreciated the follow up to this video, where they talked about how (generalizations) of this result are actually found. First the computation, then, if we're lucky, the insight.

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