A (very) Brief History of David Hilbert

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  • Опубліковано 19 лип 2020
  • In this episode, we cover the history of 19th and 20th century German mathematician David Hilbert, most notable for his axioms on geometry and his 1900 list of 23 unsolved problems plaguing mathematics. As per usual, any mathematics I go into is surface level, and I mostly survey Hilbert's life.
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  • @dougr.2398
    @dougr.2398 11 місяців тому +9

    Amazing. I met E. Wigner briefly circa 1983 and have a brief anecdote about our encounter. I had no idea at the time that he knew or studied with D. Hilbert. I related my anecdote to the project manager for the translation of all of Einstein’s papers at Princeton and he was amused and entertained by it in a kind and jovial way

  • @littledimon9557
    @littledimon9557 2 роки тому +38

    That was not a brief history at all, for the total of 22 minutes long on this mathematician monster. it appears short but you have given us everything, I thank you.

  • @JackHDW
    @JackHDW 4 роки тому +34

    Good stuff as always, david hilbert absolutely popped off!

  • @rishavkarki3593
    @rishavkarki3593 4 роки тому +15

    I was so desperately waiting for this. Thank you. Keep it up 👍.

  • @anceaipv8933
    @anceaipv8933 4 роки тому +7

    Nice video,I apreciate your efort,keep up the good work

  • @Self-Duality
    @Self-Duality Рік тому +7

    How did I just find this channel?! Awesome work!

  • @claudiopescatore3437
    @claudiopescatore3437 3 роки тому +1

    You.videos are very well made and illuminating. Thanks

  • @yousiftop7605
    @yousiftop7605 3 роки тому +2

    what a great video!
    thanks for the info

  • @charlesbeaudelair8331
    @charlesbeaudelair8331 Рік тому +2

    Thank you for the video!

  • @gucker
    @gucker 4 роки тому +12

    I enjoy history of mathematics, thank you!

  • @dougr.2398
    @dougr.2398 11 місяців тому +1

    This video is chock full of important references to books, published papers and history, for instance Léopold Kronecker being merciless in his criticism of Georg Cantor’s work. Today, we are much more adjusted to the concept of infinity containing and covering other infinities, along with the visible universe being much much more vast than ever expected in the early 1920s, and the existence of an even larger unexplored and invisible vast portion of it

  • @arpansharma6256
    @arpansharma6256 4 роки тому +3

    Nice video 👍👍👍
    Really impressed

  • @rishavkarki3593
    @rishavkarki3593 4 роки тому +2

    Just finished watching it. Nice info.

  • @jaswanthtalada.
    @jaswanthtalada. 3 роки тому +2

    Great video bro👍

  • @aminefilalialaoui7193
    @aminefilalialaoui7193 3 роки тому +2

    this is the most beautiful video I've ever seen wooow continue 😁😁

  • @pawelartymowicz1617
    @pawelartymowicz1617 11 місяців тому +2

    "Wir muessen wissen. Wir werden wissen" --- such a hubris

  • @travelgalaxy8291
    @travelgalaxy8291 3 роки тому +10

    Very important video. I as PhD student studied foundation of geometry by David Hilbert

    • @ritvicpaarekh6963
      @ritvicpaarekh6963 10 місяців тому

      What were your insights on philosophy of mathematics,
      What is the essence of axioms
      What is the essence of mathematics
      Is mathematical objects causal or independent
      What is the basis for geometry
      What is the knowledge type of geometry
      Can you please share your perspectives thank you so much.

  • @chevasit
    @chevasit 2 роки тому +4

    Great man!

  • @nipundave9935
    @nipundave9935 4 роки тому +3

    Excellent! Thanks. Waiting for Charles Ehreshmann!

    • @moderndaymath
      @moderndaymath  4 роки тому

      hey! Working on getting the vid up in a few days (if not sooner). Was very difficult to find info on him, so may do a follow up at some point in the future. Hope you still enjoy when I put it up :)
      EDIT: I ended up going a little bit into the evolution in the video

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 3 роки тому +8

    Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile. Hilbert received blood transfusions for his anemia. Richard Courant was then Director of the Mathematical Institute and he volunteered as the blood donor. With the rise of anti-Semitism at the time, and the many great Jewish mathematicians at Gottingen, it was said that now the entirety of Gottingen's Mathematical Institute, including even Hilbert had Jewish blood flowing through their veins. This sad account is from George Polya's published photographic history of his years in the German mathematics community of the time. Courant soon relocated to NYU (their mathematical institute known as the Courant Institute) and others relocated throughout the U.S., U.K., and even the Soviet Union.

    • @kiennguyenanh8498
      @kiennguyenanh8498 11 місяців тому

      Since when he had Jewish bloods?

    • @CosmosMarinerDU
      @CosmosMarinerDU 10 днів тому

      ​@@kiennguyenanh8498 Courant was Jewish, so when he donated blood to Hilbert ...

    • @kiennguyenanh8498
      @kiennguyenanh8498 10 днів тому

      @@CosmosMarinerDU So? I think the context here is difference

    • @CosmosMarinerDU
      @CosmosMarinerDU 10 днів тому

      @@kiennguyenanh8498 It's a witty humorous comment based on confusing two meanings of "blood": genetic identity and the red oxygen carrying liquid.
      Get some native English speaker to explain it to you.

    • @kiennguyenanh8498
      @kiennguyenanh8498 10 днів тому

      @@CosmosMarinerDU I get you humor, just saying to make my point clear

  • @brianhilbert6187
    @brianhilbert6187 3 роки тому +5

    He past away the same year my father Edward Hilbert was born.

  • @andresarroyo1809
    @andresarroyo1809 4 роки тому +7

    We must know, we will know

  • @lowertones9713
    @lowertones9713 2 роки тому +1

    2:16 LOL What year?
    Great video. Thank you. Upvoted, and subbed

  • @shortnotes-bds2621
    @shortnotes-bds2621 3 роки тому +2

    make one for J.P Serre, Deligne too

  • @awwab1094
    @awwab1094 Рік тому +1

    شكرا لك

  • @francoisgueissaz1710
    @francoisgueissaz1710 3 місяці тому

    excellent content, thank you! please ask German and French natives how to pronounce these great mathematicians’ names as they earned to be, and yes your comments are sufficient so that no unrelated music background is needed.

  • @CameronBrtnik
    @CameronBrtnik 3 роки тому +3

    "Ignoramunamabus" - me trying to understand math

  • @glenmartin2437
    @glenmartin2437 3 роки тому +2

    As a chemist, we were taught nothing of David Hilbert. Sad!

  • @zenith8868
    @zenith8868 3 роки тому +1

    We must know we will know

  • @asherwade
    @asherwade 2 роки тому +17

    Indeed, that you for this video and your series. I wrote two doctoral dissertations at Hamburg University (1975-83) and in the first one I used Gen. Th. οf Relativity as the paradigm of my research. In the last 7 years, I have spent nearly all of my time researching mathematical logic and the effects of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems (but, enjoyed how Gödel cracked the ‘absolutism’ of Hilbert but also took down the arrogance of Russell & Whitehead’s 3 volumes of ‘Principia Mathematica’). Like I said, I really appreciate your series and the work you put into these brief histories, …however, sincerely & in all due respect, I truly cringe at your attempted German pronunciation of names and places; needs work, 👍

    • @BassUndertow
      @BassUndertow 11 місяців тому

      I cringe at your English grammar

    • @bdpv025
      @bdpv025 11 місяців тому

      Hi can you recommend a book for math logic with exercises?

    • @dougr.2398
      @dougr.2398 10 місяців тому

      Yes, we have Wikipedia phonetic guides to pronunciation of foreign languages and some brief UA-cam files with auditory pronunciations (some of which aren’t even self-consistent)…… for instance I was interested in the pronunciation of “maler” for painter vs “Mahler” the Austrian composer’s name and found the audio file for “maler” somewhat inconsistent in slow vs fast breakdown of the word

    • @dougr.2398
      @dougr.2398 10 місяців тому

      I was inspired by the “Matisse der Maler” (Matisse the painter) and confused by its being pronounced exactly like “Matisse der Mahler”

  • @jjiloka
    @jjiloka 3 роки тому +1

    need for my project ty

  • @abhinandanmehra7765
    @abhinandanmehra7765 2 роки тому +2

    Kindly name the music which is used in this video

    • @andym4526
      @andym4526 Рік тому +1

      Concerto for Cello and Orchestra: I. Allegro cantabile by Oslo Philharmonic & Guido … Siri found this from first few seconds of the video

  • @thorntontarr2894
    @thorntontarr2894 3 місяці тому

    Hilbert: Such a mathematical force. Why to complication of background music that just distracts from the text that you are reading.

  • @MATT-ll2zf
    @MATT-ll2zf Рік тому +1

    How many hours did professor Hilbert Studied?

  • @adlikafli8607
    @adlikafli8607 4 місяці тому

    David Hilbert
    (1862-1943)

  • @3worldcompanygrandlixconce745
    @3worldcompanygrandlixconce745 2 роки тому +2

    Mathematics is equal to world

  • @savagefrito
    @savagefrito 2 роки тому +2

    Where is Kernigsberg? I thought it was Königsberg

  • @michaelgonzalez9058
    @michaelgonzalez9058 2 роки тому +2

    Total current

  • @brandonwalker5011
    @brandonwalker5011 3 роки тому +3

    I would argue that by showing that CH and GCH are independent of ZFC is all the solution we will likely ever see in regards to CH and thus the problem should not be considered open. If ZFC were shown to be inconsistent then that would necessitate reopening the problem.

  • @thabomanosa6250
    @thabomanosa6250 Рік тому +1

    CAN YOU COMPILE THE BRIEF HISTORY OF PAPPUS ?

  • @raghavkumawat5153
    @raghavkumawat5153 Рік тому +1

    ❤️❤️

  • @youssefmosaddeghiangolesta518
    @youssefmosaddeghiangolesta518 3 роки тому +1

    2:17 did you say 1979 instead of 1879 ???

    • @moderndaymath
      @moderndaymath  3 роки тому +4

      yep, a beautiful little hiccup there :)

  • @tarikmounih3559
    @tarikmounih3559 2 роки тому +1

    💯

  • @tomaszv156
    @tomaszv156 11 місяців тому

    A ( very ) brief history of great Stefan Banach, I am sure you know The Man ;)

  • @natepolidoro4565
    @natepolidoro4565 11 місяців тому

    2:17 "1879"

  • @manny2092
    @manny2092 9 місяців тому

    David Hilbert was the man! My man! Hehehe!

  • @TheHernanNoguera
    @TheHernanNoguera 11 місяців тому

    2:18 I think it’s **1879**

  • @Jellyjam14blas
    @Jellyjam14blas 4 роки тому

    Hello :)

  • @michaelgonzalez9058
    @michaelgonzalez9058 2 роки тому +3

    He was the reason for the freedom of the hebrews

  • @pawelartymowicz1617
    @pawelartymowicz1617 11 місяців тому +1

    good summary, but please fix your pronunciation of: vehemently, Goettingen, all German names etc. Also, your description (& pronunc.) of von Neumann was rather poor.

  • @tommyrjensen
    @tommyrjensen 14 днів тому

    Scary days, when pseudo-philosophers and religious zealots were allowed to determine that certain mathematical abstractions must be considered "evil". Fortunately there are few if any such nutcases left now, at least in academics. Though there are some with youtube channels.

  • @alvinmwangi
    @alvinmwangi 3 роки тому

    An American magician??

  • @Dapeculiar
    @Dapeculiar Рік тому

    thousandth like

  • @tulliusagrippa5752
    @tulliusagrippa5752 11 місяців тому

    1979? Really?

  • @Neater_profile
    @Neater_profile 2 роки тому +4

    It's hard to believe the place this genius was born in is modern day russia.

    • @keithwilkinson8310
      @keithwilkinson8310 Рік тому +2

      Many famous Germans were born, lived or studied there, Kant included. It is part of Russia because Russia wanted it. It was ethnically cleansed by Stalin with the Germans who had not fled being expelled.

    • @FairyWeatherMan
      @FairyWeatherMan 11 місяців тому

      Kaliningrad. Also Immanuel Kant was born there.

  • @taopaille-paille4992
    @taopaille-paille4992 Рік тому

    Pronounce French names more naturally

  • @hanscarlsson7276
    @hanscarlsson7276 11 місяців тому +1

    No need for that too loud background music. Annoying.

    • @dickheadrecs
      @dickheadrecs 4 місяці тому

      you can read a book, they don’t have background music