A (very) Brief History of Joseph-Louis Lagrange

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  • Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
  • In this episode, we cover the history of Joseph-Louis Lagrange, an Italian-born French mathematician who was one of the founders of the calculus of variations and developer of Lagrangian Mechanics.
    As per usual, I don't go too deeply into the mathematics, focusing primarily on the history.
    NOTE: The Curie's won the Nobel Prize, not the Nobel "Peace" Prize. Apologies for the misspeech.
    Sources:
    docs.google.com/document/d/1I...
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    -- TIMESTAMPS --
    0:00 Intro screen
    0:10 Intro
    0:35 Early Life
    3:41 Turin
    8:52 Berlin
    12:58 Paris
    18:06 Death / Fin

КОМЕНТАРІ • 47

  • @smarajitpunaykanti6463
    @smarajitpunaykanti6463 2 роки тому +24

    One of the greatest mathematicians . I wonder how every great mathematician initially wanted to be a lawyer

    • @sourabhdhanuka2252
      @sourabhdhanuka2252 Рік тому +8

      At the time all rich people wanted their kids to study law, also you couldn't build a career in Mathematics.

    • @user09832
      @user09832 Рік тому +8

      ​@@sourabhdhanuka2252you still can't it's very hard :)

    • @parthasur6018
      @parthasur6018 3 місяці тому +3

      I suppose a lawyer presents his or her arguments to the judge in a court of law very logically, methodically, and rigorously just as a mathematician presents his or her arguments logically, methodically and rigorously in constructing a proof of a theorem in mathematics. Only more so.

  • @boyaggg
    @boyaggg 2 роки тому +22

    Minor correction: The narrator stated (towards the end) that Pierre and Marie Curie were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Actually they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 (shared with Henri Becquerel). Marie Curie subsequently went on to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.

  • @WhatEver-xn5sn
    @WhatEver-xn5sn 3 роки тому +32

    Students of the future will love your videos. Thank you.

  • @thealphanigga7129
    @thealphanigga7129 2 роки тому +9

    He feared he'd just be working in Euler's shadow. lol.

  • @Eswarramesh2428
    @Eswarramesh2428 3 роки тому +3

    Amazing channel. I honestly love your videos. Keep up the good work

  • @Nylspider
    @Nylspider 3 роки тому +5

    Obligatory "hey that's the guy in your profile picture"

  • @usernameisamyth
    @usernameisamyth 3 роки тому +1

    These videos are really awesome.
    Thank you very much.
    ❤️

  • @FeLiZ4ngado
    @FeLiZ4ngado 3 роки тому +1

    Amazing!! Keep doing those videos!!

  • @davidherrera4837
    @davidherrera4837 3 роки тому +3

    Thanks for the new episode.
    I suggested Liouville on a recent video with some sample references.

  • @yeonil946
    @yeonil946 3 роки тому +3

    💓 thank you for all the videos, I’ve been watching one video a day pretty much. Is it possible that you cover Nash? And maybe math Econ related figures? I appreciate you either way!

  • @moniquejohnson8489
    @moniquejohnson8489 Рік тому +1

    Well done. This video has helped a lot with my assignment

  • @consumeentertainment9310
    @consumeentertainment9310 2 роки тому +1

    The story telling was very well-done.

  • @NikolajKuntner
    @NikolajKuntner 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks for this episode! The use of virtual displacements are hardly understood by people studying physics - most people confuse them for plain infinitesimals as used some formal analysis manipulations.

  • @h0wud0in1
    @h0wud0in1 Рік тому

    Thanks for the video! good work

  • @arnabdasphysics
    @arnabdasphysics 11 місяців тому +1

    Excellent biopic! A small correction though - at the end of the video you showed the pics of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie as the couple to win the Nobel prize, and you mentioned it was a peace prize. They actually won the Nobel prize in Physics, and Marie Curie later also won the Nobel prize in Chemistry.

  • @fernwehn5925
    @fernwehn5925 3 роки тому +1

    Magnifique!

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 3 роки тому +5

    Madame Currie won two Nobel Prizes, one in Chemistry and the other in Physics. She shared one of the Prizes with her husband. They did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • @ayushkarnawat6817
    @ayushkarnawat6817 3 роки тому +5

    Nice video! Any plans to do a video on (a highly underrated) Werner Fenchel? His work in convex analysis and (nonlinear) optimization theory forms the basis for so much of modern day applied mathematics (at least for optimization problems).

    • @moderndaymath
      @moderndaymath  2 роки тому +1

      I don't recall ever hearing the name, but I'll throw him in the backlog! Sounds cool =D

  • @JuanRodriguez-tr6st
    @JuanRodriguez-tr6st 3 роки тому +1

    Excellent

  • @Kuldeep-vb8mi
    @Kuldeep-vb8mi 3 місяці тому

    I read about him in school, but I didn't know anything about the man. Thanks a lot.

  • @ARBB1
    @ARBB1 3 роки тому +1

    Your pronounciations are very good.

  • @David_Mash
    @David_Mash 2 роки тому +1

    There are several towns in the US named Lagrange and I am curious if they are named after

  • @maalikserebryakov
    @maalikserebryakov 2 роки тому

    the euler lagrange equation is very cool and I like using it as a flex in my high school physics class

  • @nitayweksler3051
    @nitayweksler3051 2 роки тому +1

    Nice videos. I must ask how do you pronounce these names?

    • @moderndaymath
      @moderndaymath  2 роки тому +1

      Hi, nitay! I typically leverage Google Translate, or look up videos where people say the names.

  • @bradypower9215
    @bradypower9215 Місяць тому

    Well, actually he was Italian, born in Turin in 1736, he became french after marring a French woman in 1792 at the age of 56. He used french names (more than one, for example "De la Grange" that he abandoned during french revolution because nobles had the tendency to die guillottined in that period). His birth name was Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia.

  • @user-og9nl5mt1b
    @user-og9nl5mt1b 3 роки тому +3

    Can you do one cluade Shannon.

  • @transtemporal_artist
    @transtemporal_artist 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you very much for the video actually i was searching about the life of gauss and found your video it was great .... This one too .... I will be watching both again as it was a way fast speaking and my english is not that good 😅 ....Anyways thanks a mole ❤️🙏

  • @mathinliterals
    @mathinliterals 2 роки тому

    You have an amazing accent!

  • @danielthonk7481
    @danielthonk7481 2 роки тому

    Is the background piece Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1?
    edit: no, it is Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2

  • @chiklachikla7641
    @chiklachikla7641 3 роки тому +1

    Can you do à vidéo about Sophie jarmon

  • @Rico-Suave_
    @Rico-Suave_ 7 місяців тому

    Great video, thank you, note to self(nts) watched all of it 18:52

  • @Parasmunt
    @Parasmunt 3 місяці тому

    It says a lot about these guys that you can pick up cutting edge computing paper in 2024 and see these names all over it.

  • @arthuryan3577
    @arthuryan3577 2 роки тому +1

    Such workaholics, I could never XD

  • @mikev4621
    @mikev4621 Рік тому

    Was Halley a "sixteenth century" english mathematician?

  • @jamesraymond1158
    @jamesraymond1158 10 місяців тому

    Wouldn't it be wonderful if LaGrange could see the images obtained by the James Webb telescope that is stationed at L2.

  • @fredxu9826
    @fredxu9826 3 роки тому +2

    Hopefully the next is his colleague: Laplace

  • @ronaldjorgensen6839
    @ronaldjorgensen6839 4 місяці тому

    WOW

  • @robertoeufrasio8320
    @robertoeufrasio8320 3 роки тому +3

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  • @mygreatbigfoot1679
    @mygreatbigfoot1679 6 місяців тому +1

    I came here cos of ZZ Top.