Message #3766

From: Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Introduction 331st solver :)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:40:47 -0700

Hello Theodor,

That’s quite a story, from misunderstood child to taking on some of the biggest world problems! It’s a shame that kids are often punished for being different, and tragic that your creations were destroyed. I was fooling around with 4D geometry in around 7th grade but my father was a mathematician so people mostly left me alone with these sorts of things. Your surviving image didn’t attach properly, but that’s not surprising with Yahoo groups. Please upload it somewhere permanent and send us the link.

Best of luck with all your projects!
-Melinda

On 7/18/2017 4:50 PM, Theodor Pramer teodicen@gmail.com [4D_Cubing] wrote:
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> Greetings!
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> My name is Theodor Anastasius Pramer coming from Sweden. I was 33 earlier this year so an amusing number on the list :)
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> *Background:*
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> I discovered the idea of four dimensional geometry independently at the age of 10 in 5^th grade. This achievement earned me a place in the wrong type of special needs class. There they knew not what to do with me as I had nothing to do there and I was shuffled back and forth for two years. As I began making models and schematics and spending increasing time on them my teachers decided to show me I was wrong decisively. All was taken and burned. All but one I managed to keep safe and attached a photo of. Although of no monetary value it is one of my most priced possessions.
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> After some time I did not think about it. Not until I took an introductory course in pure mathematics from Oxford being introduced to hyper-geometry and higher dimensions with their theoretical framework. Some time after I was introduced to cubing and have solved my way up to 7x7x7.
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> *The solve:*
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> I came across MC4D through Mathologer’s youtube introduction. I used a combination of intuition, his method and Roice Nelson’s guide. From first to last move it took a little over 10 hours. The faces were relatively easy. The edges I feel I was a bit unlucky with but also I solved them in wrong order. Too excited with each next step to think ahead! I ended up with the four last pieces dislocated with the needed switch always in the hidden plane so I needed to put them in placeholders. The corners I felt I got something wrong on as I spent the most time figuring out the basics on fixing orientation, had no problem getting them where they were supposed to be. Eventually I found a method with an ongoing reorientation of the 8 large cubes that worked. The solve took 36669 twists but I learnt as I went and I feel there is great possibility for easy improvements on my mixed method. Looking to tackle the 4^4 soon :) I assume it has been discussed and something to draw on from this
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> *Life & interests:*
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> My bachelor was in psychology although I have two additional half complete as I started a simultaneous trio. I am currently doing two masters in psychology and medicinal chemistry. Academically I am focusing on pain relief through a new receptor connected to the opioid and cannabis pathways developing new drug lead candidates that I intend to do my PhD on taking them further and hopefully *fingers crossed* leading to a patent down the road.
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> Professionally I am the founder of a startup developing a new construction method for skyscrapers with the promise of cutting construction time by up to 80%. We filed our first patent in January with more on the way :) We are just pre-revenue with industrial interest ready to build our first hardware and half the financing complete from the government. But it is contingent on the other half coming from private sources so looking for VC/angels/heavy machinery leasing to get us flying and establish my own billion empire :) If any leads feel free to put us in contact.
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> I practice Kendo, Iaido, sport climbing, golf, hiking, enjoy cubing and am an avid reader. I like books on grand ideas stretching the imagination. I have an interest in computer hardware and have the oddity of collecting historical CPU’s of interest with just a few missing. My big project in the days is my own little Amazon AWS EC2 GPU setup to run my chemistry simulations on. Presently at roughly 300 x performance compared to running it locally :) I’ll be running my first academic presentation on it soon.
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> A few days ago I made my three year goal plan, amongst it was solving the hypercube. It is the first item I have the pleasure to cross of my list! Many thanks to the Mathologer and Roice Nelson for their introductional guides that aided me greatly!
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> I’ve made a short video I posted on Facebook on the final piece solve, not from my first solve but a friend saw it and asked me to. Got a better solution now though. It is public but if you feel like minded feel free to friend me on FB!
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> So in a slightly few more words than was intended, that is my introduction :)
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> Best regards from Sweden,
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> Theodor Pramer
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