A (very) Brief History of Leonhard Euler
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- Опубліковано 20 бер 2019
- An incredibly brief history of Leonhard Euler! Not much math in this video, so just a heads up in the event you expect math-heavy.
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Euler had 13 children; 8 of which died leaving 5 survivors.
Even his kids followed the Fibonacci series. That's mathematical devotion.
I feel so bad laughing to your comment
Extremely underrated comment...
Now that's a Golden comment
@@krishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I see what you did there
The other five roam the Earth, leaving golden spirals in their wake.
Leonhard Euler was the most prolific mathematician that ever lived; it is claimed that upon setting his eyes on a theorem it was just a matter of time before it was proved. On his death bed Euler was surrounded by his associates, students and devotees lamenting the great man’s decline and bemoaning his misfortune. In a moment the master sat bolt upright and pronounced, “I am going to die” He promptly lay down limply on his bed and died…
In amongst the cries of anguish, shock and dismay from his associates one of his students was irreverently and rather inappropriately heard saying, “Another Euler proposition has been proved true.”
Damn bruh
Thats funny and tragic at the same time :(
Euler never died
Theorem: I'm about to die
Proof: **dies** QED
I thought Euler died when playing with his grandson. I heard he was smoking a pipe and then he said "I am dying" and he died then and there.
😂
Euler sacrificed his eye for wisdom
He is the Odin of math.
Was it the eye he used to pick out his wardrobe? Because yikes.
It's widely considered a good move that Euler accepted the job offer from Frederick the Great and not the other job offer from Gary the Slightly Above Average.
Leonhard Euler is the greatest mathematician, without question.
Why not von Neumann?
Because if not for Euler, mathematics wouldn't be were it is now. Euler was the one who popularized the six trigonometric function, pi, sigma notation and he was the who created functions. He made most of his work during his blindness, I could go on. Now I'm not saying that von Neumann didn't make great contributions because he did, but Euler is way out of his league.
*Sad Newton noises*
I would say ARCHIMEDES, but okay!
What about the one who created algebra?
Euler was so far ahead of his time that I can't imagine math without his contributions. We'd still be in the dark ages.
Yes its amazing how mathematical progress was achieved mostly by a few brilliant people
we most definitely would not still be in the dark ages brilliant mathematicians exist outside of these men. I am certain it would all have been found out with time.
@@charliedawson8192But We will never get mathematicians like Euler and gauss anymore. More than 200 years have passed since their deaths and in between many mathematicians lived but they never come close to Euler and gauss in terms of discoveries and contributions they made to mankind. They truly are a legend and one of a kind.
@@MenamPatir4912poincare Laplace Lagrange Riemann Hilbert ramanujan grothendieck hardy
It's just that during Euler times
There was still a lot of room for development in contrast to modern day where the knowledge we have has become more wider
I think it is so beautiful when parents let kids interrupt their work. Kids have no other desire than to be with their parents. It is so wonderful to see that Euler had a great relationship with his wife and kids. He is proof that one can have a fulfilling career while still attending to others' needs and desires like his kids, especially since he made many of his breakthroughs with those "distractions." I know this might be unrelated, but it reminds me of when Jesus told his disciples to let the children come to Him. The children were not hindering His ministry, but they were the purpose of His ministry.
Here we go with the Jesus smuggling
Jesus!
Just a Christian being a Christian.
love youe comment
Jesus dropped some serious wisdom in his time
You tell how Euler moved to St Petersburg and show pictures of Moscow 🙈😂
My bad 😂
Very good video, thank you for making this! A bit of criticism: consider turning the background music down or perhaps changing it to something more subtle than an orchestra. Sometimes it drowned out what you were saying I feel.
Or lose the background music completely. A good video should speak for itself.
yeah I like this piece. Beethoven
I agree. Great video, great music, but way too distracting for the purpose of background music. I still appreciate the hard work very much!
Thank you for this great series of historical videos! Very interesting and very well done!
I heard during my graduation days, he remembered all trigonometric values, logarithms fully aware he would need to calculate his theorems. I was looking for mention of this as it is a very interesting fact.
Wow
He became most prolific after losing his sight. Amazing man.
Reminds me of something Steven Hawking once said, he said he was thankful for his disease because it forced him to focus more on his work since he couldn't do much else.
Actually it was Roger Cotes who found the e^iπ+1=0 identity in 1714 when Euler was 7 years old. It’s sad people associate Euler with just one identity when he essentially invented modern mathematics such as the math notation of today like using the Greek letter π for the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle, f(x) to describe a function with x as an independent variable, as well as using the Greek letter Σ to indicate summation among other countless contributions.
I will cry admiring Sir Euler's contribution in maths field . He was such a great being a great mathematician.
Thank you for making a video of this
St Petersburg on publishing Euler's work well after his death: It's like printing my own money!
I hear this guys name in almost every class I take at university and wondered how one man has so much named after him
Yes😅😅😅he is god
I heard that a lot of stuff was named after the second guy who proved or discovered something after Euler because his name was already used much. What a man
REAL LIFE SAVER, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO!!!!!
Euler + Gauss = We are all Slackers, regardless of our fields!
I just bought a book by Euler called The Elements of Algebra.
Would you make another brief history in a chronological series? I'd personally like a history about Von Neumann.
I put him in the backlog :)
Euler's contributions to math included his polyhedra formula: V + F - E = 2. This formula seems to be very simple, or even obvious, as in all of his famous math formulas. This simplicity underlies how profound this formula really is, because it is the basic starting point for the mathematics of topology. It establishes an invariance for 3-D shapes, that can be extended to other relevant cases, including higher dimensions. It is like Euclid's simple formula that the sum of the angles of a triangle equals 180 degrees. In this respect, Euler's (and Euclid's) discoveries lie at the very beginning of all of topology.
Thnx for the awesome video! Need it for a test tom...ur a life savior...😁😁
Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
Man is legendary to be remembered forever on the planet Earth for his extreme contribution to mathematics.
Thank you for the overview.
In those much simpler days, math was pretty advanced, celebrated, sponsored by royals and generally considered valuable. I hope Voltaire wasn't too hard on Euler after all.
He is my favorite math hero
definitely my favorite mathematician
nicely written and produced ty!
I love this channel. This is just personal preference but I could do away with the music in the background for sure. Either way, I understand that all comes down to learning style, preference, etc. so definitely not in any way negative feedback. Always amazing material, and I enjoy your work too. Thank you as always for the content
Thanks, huggie! 😊 Since this first few videos, I've definitely been more adamant about making the background music less invasive. I, rightfully so, got quite a bit of complaints about this early on.
@@moderndaymath oh snap, well I'm happy I'm not the only one. It really honestly does not appear boring to have no music in the background. I can focus better and take better notes. Even if it was very light music it still might be distracting for me. However the brain can adapt to different things, and maybe that for me. I'm just like I said it's my learning style, I'd prefer just your soeech. 😎 Have a blessed one thanks for the content again bro. God bless you
In fact, I like the music! Especially if the music is relevant for the time and period the mathematician lived
@@isakhammer6558- Me too, although Beethoven composed his very first piece of music in the exact same year Euler died, so there actually isn't any direct link between the blind mathematician and the deaf composer, apart from the fact that both men refused to surrender to their handicap and continued to create incredible masterpieces until the day they died.
The Legend, forever❤
He went blind .Beethoven went deaf. When you have a true gift, you don't need your physicial senses. You need just a brain that functions well.
Nice work
"Let us consider the education of our hero's." Maybe Bernoulli isn't given enough credit.
Music ALL TOO LOUD, Often one cannot hear you well, because of too loud music ,Video became in a sense more about Beethoven's 3rd than about Euler. You should have used Präludium 1 WTC of Bach and the like all the time, not just at the end.
Amazing that they were performing successful eye surgeries 250 years ago.
I'm not sure if anyone else has pointed this out but there's a typo at 0:44 (an extra 1). Great video nonetheless!
I believe that because of his faith, he doesn't fit the modern narrative, thus he is talked about way less than people who did less.
He was to science and mathemathics as big as -- if not bigger than -- Newton and Einstein, yet popular culture hardly mentions him
I know about him due to the math courses and engineering courses I have taken
This man deserves more attention
Newton was also a faithful christian
Was Einstein really that great in Physics? I heard he plagarized alot and even had mathematical help from his wife.
@@ijonkilledyou6062 Interesting. Makes it even weirder that he is so famous
@@ijonkilledyou6062 nah those are just haters dude. give Einstein the credit he deserves. anyone can sit around long enough doing the math to prove it.
@@SotraEngine4 he disproved the newtonian paradigm of reality bro!
If you take science/maths you encounter an Euler's formula every now and then..I wonder how he has so many formula's in his credit
The photo in 9:05 is of an art university, and not the same one Euler worked at
good job
Euler is everywhere..
This just shows how much you need allies in life. Imagine Johan hadn't convinced Paul ... what a tragedy this would have been for us....
Great job man
We need a Euler vs Gauss
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what a intellectual contribution he did for himself after he did for humanity ......... we have shortage of these kind of geniuses ...... not lot of intellectual genius born in history
A fellow Swiss man. Very interesting 😊
Fantastic vid. Thanks
the undisputed GOAT
Good stuff!
"Euler's work touched upon so many fields that he is often the earliest written reference on a given matter.
In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler."
-Wikipedia (List of things named after Leonard Euler)
Thank you dude
What I expected from this video is more history about his work itself. And listing his contributions in a narrative way.
Last words: I am dying 😢
What a great man!!!
Leonhard Euler is a candidate for the all time greatest genius of mankind. I do not claim that he ultimately is, but maybe he would, if one could measure ingenuity exactly. But this is for sure. The genius everyone has handy in his pocket all the time, Albert Einstein, was a little child compared to Leonhard Euler.
If you don't take into account that Einstein was a plagiarist and a fraud.
@@RaptorTroll360 what?
@@RaptorTroll360 wtf
@@DilipKrJha-yb6nv general relativity was invented by someone before einstein . Einstein just renamed it, properly organised it and took the credit
Einstein can’t even think of getting close to Euler’s genius… but I hope this is well known
St.Petersburg Academy owes Winfree Academy an apology.
6:23 great! Where did you read this anecdote?
Euler told him.
@@krishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and a bird near my window just said that is the dumbest answer your could have given...
In retrospect, I agree.
@@matteopiccioni196 how do u know euler didn’t tell him
@@maalikserebryakov a bird flew into my room and asked the same question.
I have subscribed your channel only for this video...
great video.... a new sub is added
The background music is just too distracting, great video though.
The best there was, the best there is, the best there ever will be.
A reason those 17th 18th and even 19th century scientists and musicians were on another level, no distractions. Also most of them were not atheists or nihilists, their quest was as much spiritual to uncover the secrets of nature and reality, to know God or to praise God and creation as it was a profession. Euler was a devout Christian.
I always felt Leonhard Euler is Bach (complete with the prolificity, lol, not sure what the noun for that is, and the blindness at the end of their lives), lol, and Newton is Beethoven, I think that's what I usually say...funny they play Beethoven, lol...
Is gauss the Mozart 🤨
Idk
Lol...I never asked myself that question, but, yes, I think the child prodigy in math was Gauss, the sum of consecutive integers stories being well known...I mean, lol, there aren't as many child prodigies in math as in music, nor at the same level, but still...the child prodigy in music (every other composer/musician was a child prodigy, lol), the child prodigy in music people are most aware of is Mozart, and the one in math is probably Gauss, lol...but perhaps other than that, there aren't much similarities, as far as I know (I don't know much, lol) Gauss didn't die at 37, lol...or was it 36, for Mozart, or even 35?...Not sure, lol...
I think Mendelssohn was also a prodigy, lol, and died at 39 or so...but, again, lol, Mozart is the best known child prodigy in music...and Gauss is the best known child prodigy in math (as far as I know, lol, and I don't know much)...
@@archangecamilien1879I am desagree with you, I think there are the same (or similar at least) number of math prodigies than in music, but, they are not so famous or recognized.
Need to read Euler's books🤔
So Euler vs Gauss?
I ❤ math/ comp from UPR
Really good pronunciation!
Wonderful thanks 🙏
I couldn't finish, the music too distracting
It was here he began getting prolific. Yeah, he had 13 kids
Make one on Pierre Simon Laplace
Can anyone tell me how many books he published?
If all his works had been published, math would be 50 years ahead. You know how many math classes that is??
Euler is king of mathematics.Euler,Cauchy,Newton
video's background music is too loud and distracting b/c it is annoying. Thkx for the story!
Back ground music it's very high in volume
Even among the grestest mathematicians, Euler is something else.
The left eye
Lay-ohn-hart Oiler.
Definitely the greatest of his generation
🎂Leonhard Euler 04-15-2022
I’m not gay, but DAMN.
Gauss
Newton
Archimedes
The Jimi Hendrix of math....
What’s with the rag hat
The best thing is the eco system that he had created in St. Petersburg academy.
epic, with Beethoven Symphony No.5
Symphony 3!!! Not 5!!!
The background music is too loud.
Amazing video 😇😇😇😇
His pencil was smarter than he was
YOO-ruh-ness 🤔
I have a doubt was euler a child prodigy or not , if no then how could he get into college at the age of 13
Uni not college
It was normal to go to university at that time at such a young age
Frederick the the Great --Ha! More like Frederick the Little.
I really, really like Beethoven’s 7th, but I’m a little hard of hearing and it makes the video difficult to understand.
WOW
12:09 durch zufall gefunden. händel und euler hatten etwas gemeinsam
Ramanujan is also almost impressive as Euler but alas! He didn't lived that long
Hahahaha, not at all, Ramanujan was a savant indeed, but he was interested just in a tiny sliver of math and that involved many fun but at the end mathematical uninteresting calculations. Ramanujan is a curiosity in the history of mathematics, Euler is an universal genius.
Disagree
Ramanujan was not a universal master of all mathematics like Euler was
@Pinak Chakrabartti He is overrated and a bum
Indians are trying to sell ramanjujan to the level of Euler, which is shameless. Don't compare a coal with diamond, Euler was a diamond.
Euler had masters in mathematics but what he had was just a tiny book
And derivated new formulas and filled two dense mathematics notebooks which are used today in understanding black holes , super string theory etc