The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor

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  • @studiovicarious
    @studiovicarious 4 роки тому +21506

    so you're telling me, that a group of university students didn't like their math textbook so they made a new one? damn.

    • @pratikaghor987
      @pratikaghor987 4 роки тому +1286

      Some of them were professors when the group started. However, all of them were in their twenties. So, pretty young.

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen 4 роки тому +477

      How smart do you have to be to do that?

    • @charonpluto1085
      @charonpluto1085 4 роки тому +895

      They were prestigious mathematicians and you had to be an elite to be able to join. They wanted a continuous math, and they came up with many important definitions. They unified math. They were aggressive literally! In one of their meetings seen by a mathematician not in the group the fights were so violent that one person broke a table over a definition !

    • @lynettemojica6503
      @lynettemojica6503 4 роки тому +505

      @@charonpluto1085 now I know why my professor said "definitions are life or death"

    • @akshaypendyala
      @akshaypendyala 4 роки тому +41

      @@lynettemojica6503 good!

  • @wizardinchiktrodon
    @wizardinchiktrodon 4 роки тому +11239

    His existence was imaginary, his influence was real...
    You could say that's quite *complex*

  • @saucyyikers3877
    @saucyyikers3877 4 роки тому +4866

    The smartest, elaborate, and important prank ever

    • @anime4life930
      @anime4life930 4 роки тому +13

      Saucy Yikers is to drumm roll pls
      Shut up😂😂✌️

    • @saucyyikers3877
      @saucyyikers3877 4 роки тому +30

      @@anime4life930 ummm I dont get it

    • @anime4life930
      @anime4life930 4 роки тому +3

      Saucy Yikers um I mean like why do u have to write this comment no one asked u too

    • @anime4life930
      @anime4life930 4 роки тому +1

      Saucy Yikers I’m just kidding I’m not mean

    • @anime4life930
      @anime4life930 4 роки тому +1

      Saucy Yikers 😜🤣

  • @karapapaxatzidimitrakopoulos
    @karapapaxatzidimitrakopoulos 4 роки тому +4084

    Mathematicians :
    Hmm.. We don't hane an author...
    LET AUTHOR BE x

  • @Ceshua
    @Ceshua 4 роки тому +860

    One of the nerdiest "it's a prank bro" moments

  • @stormysamreen7062
    @stormysamreen7062 4 роки тому +3024

    Imagine looking at your calculus book and thinking, "man, i can write better than that."

    • @aa-jt1yt
      @aa-jt1yt 3 роки тому +58

      probably comes down to how people views school and learning other countries have a completely different view of schooling

    • @jeremias-serus
      @jeremias-serus 3 роки тому +24

      Honestly I think this everyday. I’m just built different.

    • @deleted_handle
      @deleted_handle 3 роки тому +14

      Imagine looking at a calculator and thinking, "7+5=?"

    • @v44n7
      @v44n7 3 роки тому +23

      to be fair modern calculus and math books are so undated, i mean in the logic they are on point, but the way it presents its is so old and weird. you have to be a math genius or very talented to understand and learn just from a raw math and calculus book. We for sure would use a better approch for ANYONE that want to learn math from scrach

    • @izzeldeenmez4343
      @izzeldeenmez4343 3 роки тому +11

      @@v44n7 the school system should change like if someone wants to be in a specific job he/she doesn’t need a specific subject or most of the subject like art to be in a specific engineer for example industrial engineer u need geometry not how to draw an object

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 роки тому +4480

    "No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."
    --Aristotle

    • @deepstariaenigmatica2601
      @deepstariaenigmatica2601 4 роки тому +25

      wasn't that Einstein when talking about paul dirac?

    • @Ell_lovell
      @Ell_lovell 4 роки тому +25

      Heh... I have more than atouch’

    • @blabla-rg7ky
      @blabla-rg7ky 4 роки тому +180

      "No better place to learn math than on the internet" - Pythagoras

    • @ayman9224
      @ayman9224 4 роки тому +35

      bla bla Can’t deny such a universal quote by Pythagoras

    • @blabla-rg7ky
      @blabla-rg7ky 4 роки тому +4

      @@ayman9224 glad you agree :)

  • @thisisahumanlol8255
    @thisisahumanlol8255 4 роки тому +8222

    When you dont like your textbook so you prank mathematicians by pretending to be a man from Russia.

    • @maxpoweroverdrive
      @maxpoweroverdrive 4 роки тому +29

      Irodov wants to know your location!

    • @thisrandomdude_
      @thisrandomdude_ 4 роки тому +82

      In Soviet Russia, others don't make you read za book... you write your own...

    • @dedley2664
      @dedley2664 4 роки тому +15

      ARandomDude You didn’t need to mention za accent

    • @parasb6485
      @parasb6485 4 роки тому +4

      @@maxpoweroverdrive hey man he wrote more about physics than mathematics

    • @thisrandomdude_
      @thisrandomdude_ 4 роки тому +1

      @@dedley2664 ok it's G O N E now I edited it so that the joke looks better

  • @Sarik0497
    @Sarik0497 4 роки тому +476

    It’s so amazing to imagine just how intelligent these students were. They were clearly not just your everyday people, but geniuses in their own ways. Also, I love how this indirectly tells us, that even though we as individuals may not be comparable to legends like Einstein, Pythagoras or Newton, but in groups, we’re capable of achieving amazing achievements.

    • @Heart2HeartBooks
      @Heart2HeartBooks 2 роки тому +8

      So.......like..........."Two heads are better than one"?

    • @ajcon3874
      @ajcon3874 2 роки тому +6

      @@Heart2HeartBooks Exactly. Together humanity grows. Apart it is nothing.

    • @davidgutierrez3312
      @davidgutierrez3312 Рік тому +7

      Most maths students are very intelligent and there was a lot undiscovered or not formalized at the time. There are many more maths geniuses among us today but the problems have become more difficult.

    • @FreakGUY-007
      @FreakGUY-007 Рік тому

      ​@@davidgutierrez3312 I won't say most.. But some...

  • @jackanderson6966
    @jackanderson6966 4 роки тому +712

    “I don’t get you” “Me neither” sounds like your standard math conversation 😂

  • @merrittanimation7721
    @merrittanimation7721 4 роки тому +4600

    "Hey guys I just had and idea."
    "What?"
    "What if we pretend to be some Russian dude when we publish this book?"
    *silence*
    "THAT'S GENIUS!"

    • @ma1ist
      @ma1ist 4 роки тому +101

      The lads just having fun.

    • @asopbob6064
      @asopbob6064 4 роки тому +7

      Yes

    • @rnwillyanto
      @rnwillyanto 4 роки тому +6

      🤣

    • @jaclis20
      @jaclis20 4 роки тому +48

      @@ma1ist me and the boys secretly writing a book as a prank

    • @thisrandomdude_
      @thisrandomdude_ 4 роки тому +14

      In Soviet Russia, others don't make you read za book... you write your own...

  • @thinhnonyt
    @thinhnonyt 4 роки тому +8321

    Everybody gangsta till their textbooks’ author doesn’t exist.

    • @kavinbharathirm9478
      @kavinbharathirm9478 4 роки тому +71

      I don't know why but I find this funny

    • @wickivicton9450
      @wickivicton9450 4 роки тому +4

      Hmmm. Kimetsu no yaiba?

    • @baguette745
      @baguette745 4 роки тому +8

      @@wickivicton9450 No it's a JoJo reference

    • @Bakasta170
      @Bakasta170 4 роки тому +2

      @@wickivicton9450 Have u read the manga or just has watched the anime? 😃
      btw big fan.

    • @wickivicton9450
      @wickivicton9450 4 роки тому +1

      @@Bakasta170 both

  • @GRBtutorials
    @GRBtutorials 4 роки тому +7880

    “Nicolas Bourbaki may have been imaginary, but his legacy is very real.” So you could say he was... complex?

  • @SamiShukayr
    @SamiShukayr 4 роки тому +584

    These guys are their time's equivalent of "doing it for a meme".

    • @__Hmmmmmmmm__
      @__Hmmmmmmmm__ 3 роки тому +37

      Different generation, same antics. Nice👌.

  • @PeacePham1991
    @PeacePham1991 4 роки тому +97

    A bunch of mathematicians that didn't mind not taking credit for their work! Mad respect!

  • @mk_rexx
    @mk_rexx 4 роки тому +2698

    "All but one of us are gonna be referenced as 'et.al' anyway"
    -the authors, probably

    • @gildedbear5355
      @gildedbear5355 4 роки тому +155

      Ultimate math/science troll: change your name to "et al". that way we can get "et al et.al"

    • @playmaker.3596
      @playmaker.3596 4 роки тому +44

      etality

    • @shiningdahlia
      @shiningdahlia 4 роки тому +10

      I was just asking myself that! How do you reference the work of an imaginary person? 💭

    • @forreadingoutloud6282
      @forreadingoutloud6282 4 роки тому +43

      @@shiningdahlia Well you have to keep in mind that for people who lived at the time, Bourbaki was very much a "real" person. So yeah, including him in references is not really that much of an issue

    • @wellesradio
      @wellesradio 4 роки тому +2

      GildedBear “et-al et al” I do think that’s how some of the early algebra treatises were attributed.

  • @Challyyeh
    @Challyyeh 4 роки тому +2016

    I can just imagine all the Geniuses who died in the world wars and how the world might be totally different if at least a few mozarts and einsteins lived. May they rest in peace.

    • @dinghanxue704
      @dinghanxue704 4 роки тому +83

      and it is also sad that most of the technologies advancing are a result of military research.

    • @prumchhangsreng979
      @prumchhangsreng979 4 роки тому +127

      Dont really know man. While it did alot of damage, it also allow the society to grow. Without world war I and II. We may not have the Unite Nation either. Small country might still be used by big nation and big nation might still have minor conflict over and over. And tbh, the world war is such a big war that everyone just so done with it and want peace. That period of peace allow technology and science to grow exponentially. The tech we have today is sth people from 100years ago could never imagine of. While these great mind die, their legacy live on. These group of mathematicians is collecting their legacy and set a universal standard. That mean, their work didn't go to waste. They didnt live on to do more math discovery, but our today mathematician are just as capable.

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 3 роки тому +2

      Wihout it, we probably wouldnt have a use to apply all that theory practically.

    • @valhatan3907
      @valhatan3907 3 роки тому +7

      @@prumchhangsreng979 woah dude, that one is beautiful

    • @boslyporshy6553
      @boslyporshy6553 3 роки тому +2

      @@dinghanxue704 Necessity drives actions

  • @YEdwardP
    @YEdwardP 4 роки тому +1792

    "Nicolas Bourbaki may have been IMAGINARY, but his legacy is very REAL."
    I see what you did there, TED-Ed.

    • @pleaseenteraname4824
      @pleaseenteraname4824 4 роки тому +38

      YEdwardP Im(Bourbaki)=life
      Re(Bourbaki)=legacy

    • @blackmamba1261
      @blackmamba1261 4 роки тому +120

      I don’t get it. That reference was too complex for me

    • @srash8854
      @srash8854 4 роки тому +85

      @@blackmamba1261 it's quite irrational

    • @archeopterixneuroza4715
      @archeopterixneuroza4715 4 роки тому +59

      @@srash8854 I dunno, seems pretty natural to me

    • @dhrithivbhat
      @dhrithivbhat 4 роки тому +59

      @@archeopterixneuroza4715 the fact that y'all are _add_ ing puns is _whole_ some

  • @angelyiu629
    @angelyiu629 4 роки тому +458

    Whoever made the idea on writing puns in Nicholas' obituary deserves an applause.

  • @thehammerandsickle2490
    @thehammerandsickle2490 4 роки тому +477

    That moment when you "prank" half the world's population into using a textbook made by a ghost...

    • @callen34659
      @callen34659 3 роки тому +6

      Em ghost is probably not an accurate word since ghost would 'exist' if you know what im saying

  • @Panda_Roll
    @Panda_Roll 4 роки тому +1101

    "Hey, lets publish our work under a pseudonym. Which one do you think people will take seriously?"
    "Russian. People only trust wisdom and knowledge when they come from far away. Can't ever grow that stuff locally it seems."

    • @sovimohammedsaeed7802
      @sovimohammedsaeed7802 4 роки тому

      Fyaza Heylets lets publis v

    • @wafer8870
      @wafer8870 4 роки тому

      e

    • @spacecowboy07723
      @spacecowboy07723 4 роки тому

      C

    • @t-gaygaygay8164
      @t-gaygaygay8164 4 роки тому

      d

    • @baxakk7374
      @baxakk7374 3 роки тому +18

      That and lots of mathematicians came from the Soviet Union. The coolest kids at most schools at that time in the Soviet Union were kids who were good at math and physics. In the western world, they are considered weird and kind of shameful to be like that.

  • @nigelmaccuver9122
    @nigelmaccuver9122 4 роки тому +1680

    Descartes : I THINK, THEREFORE I AM.
    Bourbaki : THEY THINK, THEREFORE I AM.
    😇😇😇

  • @ujwalbasnet9444
    @ujwalbasnet9444 4 роки тому +1318

    Maybe the greatest mathematician was the friend we made along the way.

    • @wohoi
      @wohoi 4 роки тому +52

      bourbaki, I swear to God I will leave you in russia.

    • @leonardopaulsen2116
      @leonardopaulsen2116 4 роки тому +17

      I thought Nicholas Bourbaki was a guy from twenty one pilots' album, trench
      You can find that name in their song morph

    • @thisrandomdude_
      @thisrandomdude_ 4 роки тому +15

      What if... it was all... a dream...?

    • @AnimeCritical
      @AnimeCritical 4 роки тому +4

      Bifrost Bigfoot.. This was hilarious. Still laughing.

    • @deliriousjason8133
      @deliriousjason8133 4 роки тому +4

      *imaginary friend*

  • @blackout995
    @blackout995 3 роки тому +534

    This is nothing compared to the greatest scientist of all time, "Et Al."

    • @divishatewari7612
      @divishatewari7612 3 роки тому +5

      lol 😂

    • @michaelmclemore649
      @michaelmclemore649 3 роки тому

      The means to do what he does

    • @michaelmclemore649
      @michaelmclemore649 3 роки тому +9

      Math is the father of science and language. Man counted before he organized his language (discovered numbers). Without his father Math, Science cannot stand. Math stands without science. In fact the biggest fan of Math is his son Science that he graciously lent the power to toddler off into the sunset

    • @skycopper1336
      @skycopper1336 3 роки тому +5

      Can you guys explain da joke pls?

    • @user-dl1bs6lm1g
      @user-dl1bs6lm1g 3 роки тому +50

      When a document is quoted in order to give credit you must cite the authors and put them in your References or Bibliography.
      When a document has many authors you only mention some of them and then you put "et al." which means "and others".
      Et al. Appears in many citations, that's the joke.

  • @MHeymann
    @MHeymann 4 роки тому +17

    "If every *possible* output could be mapped onto *by* at least one input" is in my mind a better phrasing for surjectivity. Great video! 😍

  • @illusionfaderr5394
    @illusionfaderr5394 4 роки тому +1587

    Damn I just can’t imagine being smart enough to rewrite your school’s whole dang textbook

    • @anemari5809
      @anemari5809 4 роки тому +15

      Cuz knowledge isn't spoon-fed before. They need to discover thing cause ya know they can't google 😅

    • @memoboy4141
      @memoboy4141 4 роки тому +43

      @@anemari5809 how can you not make sense on so many different levels, that's kind of brilliant.

    • @raspberrycrowns9494
      @raspberrycrowns9494 4 роки тому +1

      @ゴゴ Joji Joestar ゴゴ you should meet my 1 yr old niece

    • @markusoreos.233
      @markusoreos.233 4 роки тому +2

      @ゴゴ Joji Joestar ゴゴ
      That was engrish, sir.

    • @solderbuff
      @solderbuff 4 роки тому +2

      That's actually pretty easy in many ever-changing fields. You just read the new research and learn about the current practices and summarize it all into a form of a textbook.

  • @ShauryaSingh-ts2oc
    @ShauryaSingh-ts2oc 4 роки тому +5509

    Plot Twist: Nicolas was real and the group killed him to take his credit.

  • @shaheen4663
    @shaheen4663 4 роки тому +5796

    I never understood why people would give credit to a made up dude for the excellent work that they did

    • @aliyannadeem1104
      @aliyannadeem1104 4 роки тому +452

      Guess they were all about the laughs

    • @isaiahestabrook6247
      @isaiahestabrook6247 4 роки тому +1209

      Because for a lot of mathematicians, it isn’t about being recognized. It’s about the betterment of mathematics. Great example of this is Grigori Perelman who proved Poincaré conjecture but turned down the award.

    • @danielsteel5251
      @danielsteel5251 4 роки тому +427

      Mathematicians tend to be masochists.
      In all sorts of ways.

    • @duckymomo7935
      @duckymomo7935 4 роки тому +71

      A lot of these results weren’t new or ground breaking
      ZFC was already formalized by the time of “Bourbaki”

    • @mazeemadaline3091
      @mazeemadaline3091 4 роки тому +72

      ikr like Einstein didn’t think that what he discovered was special at all

  • @enchantking
    @enchantking 4 роки тому +23

    They should make a movie about this!!!

    • @LdNote
      @LdNote 3 роки тому

      omg so true that would be amazing

  • @genkideska4486
    @genkideska4486 4 роки тому +89

    Pranks back then : let's create a character and write groundbreaking math in his name,hehe.
    Pranks nowadays : so I burnt my friends home and bought him a new one.

  • @bobypiza
    @bobypiza 4 роки тому +4533

    “I like Russia”
    “Ok?”
    “Let’s pretend to be Russian “

    • @maninthecrowd5076
      @maninthecrowd5076 4 роки тому +91

      We like Russia.
      That's the truth and at the same a communism joke. Feels good.

    • @peterfireflylund
      @peterfireflylund 4 роки тому +16

      Actually named after an old French general, not a Russian.

    • @MaheshKumar-vw6uo
      @MaheshKumar-vw6uo 4 роки тому +8

      @@maninthecrowd5076 get out capitalist jocker

    • @anime4life930
      @anime4life930 4 роки тому +2

      Jorjeeta Panda who asked?

    • @Qbe_Root
      @Qbe_Root 4 роки тому +10

      “Let’s pretend to be Russian”
      “You mean Russians?”
      “No no, Russian”

  • @MathMadeEasy
    @MathMadeEasy 4 роки тому +378

    I just looked all of their names up and was incredibly saddened when I found all had died except one, Jean-Pierre Serre. R.I.P. mathematical legends.

    • @dinghanxue704
      @dinghanxue704 4 роки тому +9

      it's just nature's law.

    • @theyoutubeuser6797
      @theyoutubeuser6797 4 роки тому +9

      Bourbaki still exist. Jean-Pierre was fired as he is more than 50 years old.

    • @mohitjain088
      @mohitjain088 3 роки тому +6

      He was and still is the youngest winner of the Fields Medal, at the age of 27.

    • @clemente3966
      @clemente3966 3 роки тому +4

      Yeah, the thing with Bourbaki is that all the members are below a certain age and are all anonymous until one member is at least old enough, and so, out of the group. Then Idk what the specifics are, but iirc it's the member's decision to tell if they were a member or not, but usually former members we know of are old when they're still alive.

  • @tintirinao
    @tintirinao 4 роки тому +252

    Me:*unable to understand the math text book*
    after watching this video,my mind:"I will write my own math text book"

  • @relatablenoodles9245
    @relatablenoodles9245 3 роки тому +249

    he was so famous, he even got a 21 pilots song made after him

    • @violetboulevard3899
      @violetboulevard3899 3 роки тому +6

      @Sousea morph

    • @youraveragegrandma568
      @youraveragegrandma568 3 роки тому +37

      The 21 pilots song was so great 20th century mathematicians had a pseudonym inspired by it

    • @nate_storm
      @nate_storm 3 роки тому +16

      i was wondering how far i’d have to go for this comment

    • @SaiTheForgotten
      @SaiTheForgotten 3 роки тому +1

      Still dont get why TOP mentioned his name

    • @alex_plds
      @alex_plds 3 роки тому

      @@SaiTheForgotten yh the i dont get the why the leader of the niners was named after him

  • @Inkan1969
    @Inkan1969 3 роки тому +2

    Oh, wow. That's an inspiring story. The world owes a lot to the Bourbaki group.

  • @firstname4653
    @firstname4653 4 роки тому +473

    He’ll always try to stop me, that Nicholas Bourbaki

    • @XxSwagBeatboxerxX
      @XxSwagBeatboxerxX 4 роки тому +33

      TOP fans liked that 😎

    • @zaarakhan6824
      @zaarakhan6824 4 роки тому +41

      He's got no friends close but those who know him most know , he goes by nico he told me I am copy and when I heard he'd mocked me THAT ALMOST STOPPED ME

    • @TemPestKratos
      @TemPestKratos 4 роки тому +26

      We'll we're surrounded and we're hounded

    • @sofiavelardez2441
      @sofiavelardez2441 4 роки тому +22

      theres no above or a secret door

    • @alexandermcleanalmndbuttrt4714
      @alexandermcleanalmndbuttrt4714 4 роки тому +16

      what are we here for?

  • @francotomatillo
    @francotomatillo 4 роки тому +38

    I really like the fact that the guy working on commutative groups and the guy working on Z-modules couldn’t understand each other despite these two objects being the same. If that was an intentional touch, Kudos!

  • @Dr_Steve.N
    @Dr_Steve.N 4 роки тому +596

    These stories would make maths so interesting imo.
    why they don't tell this at school.🤷‍♂️
    Thanks Ted ed

    • @ChrisM-qo1jc
      @ChrisM-qo1jc 4 роки тому +27

      it doesnt help u understand the mathematics of it all

    • @ariaasterial9295
      @ariaasterial9295 4 роки тому +111

      @@ChrisM-qo1jc It would make you want to understand it more though, and wanting to understand makes understanding a lot easier

    • @dimitris5866
      @dimitris5866 4 роки тому +16

      @@ariaasterial9295 10/10 Make it a quote now.

    • @Dr_Steve.N
      @Dr_Steve.N 4 роки тому +1

      @@ariaasterial9295 yup

    • @아인-d8n
      @아인-d8n 4 роки тому +16

      Ikr. just imagine how many people would be interested in math just because of the prank story.

  • @VaChercherLaBaballe-ih7lz
    @VaChercherLaBaballe-ih7lz 4 місяці тому +1

    Please note the title of the book includes the word Mathématique with no 's', while the normal word is always plural (as in English MathematicS).

  • @klarissemagallanes8961
    @klarissemagallanes8961 4 роки тому +8

    Those Mathematicians are Madlads at a whole new level

  • @irene9332
    @irene9332 4 роки тому +190

    " the highest form of pure thought is in mathematics"
    - Plato

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen 4 роки тому +4

      Is it tho? Explain for example!

    • @deadangel03
      @deadangel03 4 роки тому +9

      LudicrousKid those were Plato’s words, not his.

    • @manjityadav6845
      @manjityadav6845 4 роки тому +23

      Smoke weed everyday
      -Elon Musk

    • @iredred4378
      @iredred4378 4 роки тому

      @@manjityadav6845 I'm crying

    • @behzat8489
      @behzat8489 4 роки тому +4

      @@Gadget-Walkmen there is nothing more pure than math. I cant prove that now but its true. Btw the thing we are learning in schools is not math. Believe me.

  • @MarvelGeek
    @MarvelGeek 4 роки тому +563

    TED-ED: Nicolas Bourbaki never existed
    Me: "surprised Pikachu face"

    • @jofx4051
      @jofx4051 4 роки тому +58

      ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⣶⣶ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⣀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡏⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠉⠁⠀⣿ ⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⠟⠿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿ ⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⢰⣹⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣭⣷⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⢾⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⡠⠤⢄⠀⠀⠀⠠⣿⣿⣷⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢄⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿

    • @MarvelGeek
      @MarvelGeek 4 роки тому +4

      Nice!

  • @Moon-iv1xy
    @Moon-iv1xy 4 роки тому +508

    Honestly I kinda get it, if I was a part of the team, I'd rather choose a cool group name to "represent" everyone than being reduced to et al. lol

    • @mayaibarra85
      @mayaibarra85 4 роки тому +45

      I didn't think about that, everytime I put et al. for the papers I had written, I always feel bad for all the other names that also deserved recognition.

  • @Werelight
    @Werelight 4 роки тому +15

    They pretty much went back to basics, making a modern work of Euclid. His own “Elements” was quite similar.

  • @zaclanderos1624
    @zaclanderos1624 3 роки тому +16

    "He'll always try to stop me, that Nicholas Bourbaki
    He's got no friends close but those who know him most know
    He goes by Nico, he told me I'm a copy"
    ~Morph - Twenty One Pilots

  • @denhro
    @denhro 4 роки тому +59

    Saw the title and instantly knew who this was about.
    ...He'll always try to stop me, that Nicholas Bourbaki...

    • @ananyask503
      @ananyask503 3 роки тому +4

      He's got no friends close but those who know him most know he goes by Nico

  • @phillipskids3686
    @phillipskids3686 4 роки тому +123

    Why dont they tell us this in school? we just assume things have always been organized but really people worked super hard to being math together

    • @Jay-nh6um
      @Jay-nh6um 4 роки тому +13

      Do you seriously think math was created, organized and developed without effort? Hundreds of generations were needed to even conceptualize the field of mathematics... School assumes you assume that everything took lots of work to be done.

    • @giobronskij8249
      @giobronskij8249 4 роки тому +1

      Because these were scholars studying advanced mathematics, why would school waste any time telling you their story when they need to teach kids basic maths lmao

  • @asurajsharma
    @asurajsharma 4 роки тому +29

    Always on point with the gorgeous animation

  • @Snehal_Bajpeyee
    @Snehal_Bajpeyee 4 роки тому +28

    "Who should be the author?"
    "Nicolas something...."
    "Great Idea!!!"

  • @adventureawaits3860
    @adventureawaits3860 4 роки тому +7

    I found This on Wikipedia-
    The group's namesake derives from the 19th century French general Charles-Denis Bourbaki,[3] who had a career of successful military campaigns before suffering a dramatic loss in the Franco-Prussian War. The name was therefore familiar to early 20th century French students. Weil remembered an ENS student prank in which an upperclassman posed as a professor and presented a "theorem of Bourbaki"; the name was later adopted.
    (Andre wiel was one of it's founders)

  • @AM_-wg1hj
    @AM_-wg1hj 4 роки тому +2942

    I changed my comment so the replies don't make any sense

    • @harshita.07
      @harshita.07 4 роки тому +109

      *But I feel bad for everyone who lost their lives on world war 1*

    • @youisstupid2586
      @youisstupid2586 4 роки тому +83

      And the horses

    • @jinujustin9271
      @jinujustin9271 4 роки тому +23

      bro its a relief otherwise the syllabus would have been more thicker

    • @Aphelia.
      @Aphelia. 4 роки тому +99

      The scientists, the artists and all others. War is just a waste of good people.

    • @esmeray9704
      @esmeray9704 4 роки тому +5

      @@Aphelia. ikr

  • @Alkalus
    @Alkalus 4 роки тому +312

    Man: No, Nicolas Bourbaki doesn’t exist.
    French Mathematicians: Ight bet.

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 роки тому +180

    "Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."
    --Arthur Rimbaud

  • @cestrocchia
    @cestrocchia 4 роки тому +1

    This is a great content that I've shared in my social media.
    Keep it for further!

  • @JamieLynnSelman
    @JamieLynnSelman 3 роки тому +1

    This is one of my favorite Teds.

  • @camiloiribarren1450
    @camiloiribarren1450 4 роки тому +8

    The story of man who never was in a world who never knew him creating a legacy many couldn't reach. What a great legend

  • @supermarioplayersmp
    @supermarioplayersmp 4 роки тому +5

    As soon as I saw that title I knew “who” this was gonna be about.
    Great work as always!

  • @razlem
    @razlem 4 роки тому +66

    I can't believe what I'm studying now came from a prank lmao

  • @evagraciela225
    @evagraciela225 4 роки тому +25

    This takes twenty one pilot song to a whole new level

    • @nebulouscalamity6338
      @nebulouscalamity6338 3 роки тому +2

      Which song is that?

    • @evagraciela225
      @evagraciela225 3 роки тому +2

      @@nebulouscalamity6338 Nico and the Niners

    • @nebulouscalamity6338
      @nebulouscalamity6338 3 роки тому +1

      @@evagraciela225 Thanks for the surprising prompt reply! I guess Nico and the Niners are all the same here. They're the ones controlling all of math, eh?

  • @sylviamontaez3889
    @sylviamontaez3889 Рік тому +2

    a member of the bourbaki group, Andre Weil, was the brother of the philosopher and Christian mystic Simone Weil

  • @MatthewSmith-wx9wy
    @MatthewSmith-wx9wy 4 роки тому +117

    0:48
    Me & my friend in Math.

    • @mel594
      @mel594 4 роки тому +6

      "..the lack of a shared mathematical language." 😂

    • @paradox5468
      @paradox5468 4 роки тому

      😂😂😂😂

  • @danpat8135
    @danpat8135 4 роки тому +9

    Great animation as always!

  • @mellow-yellow918
    @mellow-yellow918 4 роки тому +76

    Moral of the story: If you don't like a book, write one on your own(and yes,pretend to be a Russian guy-that's important)

  • @stanley_george
    @stanley_george 4 роки тому +13

    A glance into the Wikipedia article tells that this group still lives and their latest publication was in 2016

  • @thebepsusdog9227
    @thebepsusdog9227 Рік тому +2

    "Strictures are the weapons of the mathematician"
    My face when I'm about to rob a mathematician but he suddenly pulls out a construction site.

  • @oscard4801
    @oscard4801 4 роки тому +5

    This stories makes mathematics, really interesting and attractive. I love them!

  • @tigerlewis7370
    @tigerlewis7370 4 роки тому +26

    He'll always try to stop me, that Nicholas Bourbaki
    He's got no friends close but those who know him most know
    He goes by Nico, he told me I'm a copy
    When I'd hear him mock me that's almost stopped me
    Well we're surrounded and we're hounded
    There's no above or a secret door
    What are we here for?
    If not to run straight through all our tormentors?
    But until that time I'll try and sing this

    • @angler3897
      @angler3897 2 роки тому +1

      If I keep moving, they won't know

    • @j-drummer9132
      @j-drummer9132 Рік тому +1

      I’ll morph to someone else

  • @SS-yl5wo
    @SS-yl5wo 4 роки тому +54

    flying from a fire, from nico and the niners

    • @Pepel_sna
      @Pepel_sna 4 роки тому

      Can you explain, please?

    • @trap-pd2mv
      @trap-pd2mv 4 роки тому +5

      @@Pepel_sna 'east is up I'm fearless when I hear this on the low' are you telling me you never heard this famous phrase ?

    • @jolie1412
      @jolie1412 4 роки тому +6

      always trying to stop me that nicholas bourbaki

    • @krolipfozhe1417
      @krolipfozhe1417 4 роки тому +2

      @@jolie1412 omg! Now I finnaly understood the line.....thanks😀

    • @gracelewis4016
      @gracelewis4016 4 роки тому +2

      EAST IS UP! I'm fearless when I hear this on the low, EAST IS UP! I'm careless when I wear my rebel clothes, EAST IS UP! when bishops come together they will know that: Dema don't control us!

  • @manuelangeldomingueztoribi6516
    @manuelangeldomingueztoribi6516 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for the video.

  • @agoogleuser3853
    @agoogleuser3853 3 роки тому +1

    I love how the phrase at the start was written by no other than Nicolas Bourbaki

  • @sayanchoudhury3190
    @sayanchoudhury3190 4 роки тому +300

    imaginary numbers exist in mathematics so as imaginary mathematicians in our society

  • @nutritiondaily2022
    @nutritiondaily2022 4 роки тому +5

    Great videos from Ted-ED during the pandemic. Thank you! ❤️

  • @fazzadon8944
    @fazzadon8944 4 роки тому +11

    They did it for the lolz. What madmen, I love them.

  • @michaleandmore5111
    @michaleandmore5111 4 роки тому +50

    When a fictional guy's life has more meaning than mine 😭

  • @Welivecurious
    @Welivecurious 3 роки тому

    अद्भुत ! सभी पेरेंट्स को देखना चाहिए यह वीडियो और अपने बच्चों से इस बारे मैं बात करनी चाहिए। मैथ क्यूरोसिटी के बहुत जगह है घर पर होने वाली बातचीत मैं Homeschoolers मैं Math Curiosity पैदा करने के लिए हम भी प्राइमरी के बच्चों के साथ काम और कोशिशें कर रहे हैं

  • @z.a.23
    @z.a.23 4 роки тому +30

    He'll always try to stop me, that Nicholas Bourbaki
    He's got no friends close but those who know him most know
    He goes by Nico, he told me I'm a copy
    When I'd hear him mock me that's almost stopped me

  • @BulletproofTogether17
    @BulletproofTogether17 4 роки тому +24

    So this is the Nicolas Bourbaki that Tyler Joseph of twenty øne piløts is talking about in the song Nico and the Niners.🤔

    • @jangronowski8180
      @jangronowski8180 4 роки тому +6

      Yes that's the point, Nicos studies are a good metaphor for the story of trench(Plus he literally invented TOPology)

  • @malika-temurova
    @malika-temurova 4 роки тому +7

    You have just explained the whole theme "Functions" of calculus in 5 minutes. Thank you!

    • @malika-temurova
      @malika-temurova 4 роки тому +1

      Also why Nicolas Bourbaki doesn't sound Russian at all?

  • @pahulpreetsingh141
    @pahulpreetsingh141 4 роки тому +56

    I heard Nikolas bourbaki and immediately my brain went to twenty one pilots

  • @lesbloches1142
    @lesbloches1142 3 роки тому +1

    What a smooth video to talk about it ! Love it !
    I would also add this : Nicolas Bourbaki still exists today. In fact, the group is welcoming new mathematicians who shall leave it when they are 50, because after this age we become idiots. The identities of current members are mostly kept secret...

  • @Indian_phd
    @Indian_phd 4 роки тому +14

    In many fields when people become over ambitious, this is a solution they have. As for an imaginary personality you can build story and a total new life and the lifestyle. People who follow a person is not always for the work they do.. It's the person as whole... Many of the stories and personalities can be unreal.

  • @salad5701
    @salad5701 4 роки тому +43

    the face when someone that never existed achieved way more than you ever will

    • @johndalton8839
      @johndalton8839 3 роки тому

      fact* Also, you're speaking for yourself here. No one else

  • @aryansarc
    @aryansarc 4 роки тому +10

    We are studying about these functions in Grade 11 here (in India)
    Injective fnc is popularly know as One-One function (as it gives only one output for any input)
    Surjective fnc is called Onto function ( basically it means every output should occur once, Mathematically it means Range = Co-Domain of that function)
    Bijective is both One-One and Onto function. (Bijective fncs are popularly taught bcoz they are invertible fncs, eg- y=x and y=1/x )

  • @cypher1133
    @cypher1133 Рік тому

    This is one of the most interesting stories i have heard

  • @DanDanPlaysMusic
    @DanDanPlaysMusic 3 роки тому +1

    This just helped me put together that verse from Morph by TØP

  • @captive-audience
    @captive-audience 4 роки тому +65

    I can think about nothing but Twenty-one Pilots just after hearing the name Nicolas Bourbaki.

    • @PedroHenrique-vt1nz
      @PedroHenrique-vt1nz 4 роки тому +2

      Why?

    • @Gungus-v1g
      @Gungus-v1g 4 роки тому +2

      @@PedroHenrique-vt1nz bump

    • @eyeshoe24
      @eyeshoe24 4 роки тому +7

      @@PedroHenrique-vt1nz because they reference Nico as a fictional representation of negativity in their recent album named "Trench"

    • @zx4706
      @zx4706 4 роки тому +3

      YEAH

    • @gracelewis4016
      @gracelewis4016 4 роки тому +2

      He's got no friends close but those who know him most know: he goes by nico

  • @tanishkagour5457
    @tanishkagour5457 4 роки тому +62

    Oh he is alive he's just in dema ||-//

  • @xavierthomas5923
    @xavierthomas5923 4 роки тому +10

    Imposter is maths: redefines his field
    Imposter in among us: gets kicked/ejected

  • @ashrafbutt9418
    @ashrafbutt9418 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks for telling such an informative video😀

  • @alannash2778
    @alannash2778 4 роки тому

    So much of this went over my head, but I do like the humour of the group!

  • @rayyanjamal4983
    @rayyanjamal4983 4 роки тому +14

    He'll always try to stop me, that Nicholas Bourbaki
    He's got no friends close but those who know him most know
    He goes by Nico

  • @javidproductions9353
    @javidproductions9353 4 роки тому +27

    Fun fact: Tom Scott and Ted Ed upload a video at exactly the same time (within a minute) every Monday.
    Edit: typo

  • @ChanwooPark-me1wc
    @ChanwooPark-me1wc 2 роки тому +5

    우리가 지금 배우고 있는 수학이 정립된 지 불과 몇십 년 밖에 지나지 않았다는 사실이 좀 놀랍네요. 확실히 수학 용어를 통일시킨 작업은 수학자들이 서로의 분야를 이해하고 융합하는 데 도움을 많이 주었을 것 같습니다. 유익한 영상 감사합니다!

  • @wergqeferhqw3erf452
    @wergqeferhqw3erf452 3 роки тому +1

    i wish i was smart enough to understand a single thing that was said throughout the course of the video

  • @dropyourself
    @dropyourself Рік тому +1

    You should do one on the multidisciplinary scientist named Et Al.

  • @angelanoelle8111
    @angelanoelle8111 4 роки тому +5

    and I thought Nicolas Bourbaki was just a random name in the TwentyOne Pilots' "Morph"

  • @hunyotiago1271
    @hunyotiago1271 4 роки тому +110

    Markings on animal bones indicate that humans have been doing maths since around 30,000BC.

    • @izjgxj4275
      @izjgxj4275 4 роки тому +8

      A mark could also serve lots of different purposes like how they would split the bones to use for sth else. And even if they were resembling some sort of number or count, counting some amount of a good or anything can not be described as maths.

    • @tibiademon9157
      @tibiademon9157 4 роки тому +19

      @@izjgxj4275 Arithmetic is still math

    • @abdulhameed87
      @abdulhameed87 4 роки тому +4

      @@izjgxj4275 it is still maths... That's how math would have been started...

    • @ondras5241
      @ondras5241 4 роки тому +9

      @@izjgxj4275 If 1+1=2 is math, anything that requires counting is math, humans were doing math before they even named it

    • @medchs
      @medchs 4 роки тому +2

      @@ondras5241 in that case, even animals have been doing math .. yeah, some animals can count.

  • @bestredditstories1158
    @bestredditstories1158 4 роки тому +40

    Twenty Pilot fans, did you guys notice the reference?

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 2 роки тому +1

    Interesting and worthwhile video.

  • @johnnyr7289
    @johnnyr7289 3 роки тому

    One of the greatest stories ever told