# The Maths of Sorting Things Out

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor John D Barrow FRS
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/maths-sorting-things-out)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

What is the best way to pack? Some examples of different packing strategies will lead us to the best way of packing many things of different sizes. We look at the different strategies that can be used to board passengers on to aircraft and discover that the standard load-from-the-back model is the second worst possible. But what is the best way? What are the best denominations of coins to have in order to be able to make all possible amounts of change as efficiently as possible?

## Lectures

1. [The Maths of Sorting Things Out](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/maths-sorting-things-out/416a543b48a7) (YouTube)