How a Blind Mathematician Became the World's Greatest

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  • @Newsthink
    @Newsthink  12 годин тому +4

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  • @welovfree
    @welovfree 12 годин тому +120

    Euler is the Beethoven of Mathematics.
    It is said that they've managed to compile a whole volume of mathematical discoveries from what's left in his room after his death.
    And he is considered the most prolific mathematician of all time.

    • @HTOP1982
      @HTOP1982 9 годин тому +14

      Beethoven is the Euler of music.

    • @imqx.
      @imqx. 9 годин тому

      @@HTOP1982as a pianist i much rather prefer tchaikovsky and tbh i don't really see beethoven in solo recitals

    • @canyoupoop
      @canyoupoop 9 годин тому

      The point is, Euler stays the GOAT of mathematics nonetheless ​@imqx.

    • @HTOP1982
      @HTOP1982 8 годин тому

      @imqx. you ever noticed that no one ever sees Beethoven and Eminem in the same place, at the same time?

    • @imqx.
      @imqx. 8 годин тому

      @@HTOP1982ok

  • @JaybeePenaflor
    @JaybeePenaflor 8 годин тому +29

    When I was taking my masters in mathematics, I realized just how big his influence was that I consider him my mathematics hero.

  • @AnshumanBhartiya2006
    @AnshumanBhartiya2006 8 годин тому +43

    "The study of Euler's works will remain the best school for the different fields of mathematics, and nothing else can replace it". - Carl Friedrich Gauss
    "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all". - Pierre-Simon Laplace

  • @jceepf
    @jceepf 8 годин тому +39

    We all admire Euler.
    I am a physicist: his name is everywhere. One of the first "advanced" thing we learn is the "Euler-Lagange" equations in Newtonian mechanics. The fact that the laws of physics can be derived from minimizing a so-called "Lagrangian" is almost a universal law of physics we owe originally to the collaboration between Lagrange and Euler although a principle of that sort was first thought by Maupertius and even Fermat.
    He was a man of unparallel genius and also a man who had an intuition for formulae a little like Ramanujan.
    (The standard model is based on a monstrous Lagrangian: our best understanding of physics minus gravity)

    • @kazedcat
      @kazedcat 5 годин тому +1

      The number e is shorthand for Euler Number. He got a number named after him. Then there is Euler Mascheroni Constant or the Euler Constant so numbers got named after him twice.

    • @KonkyPlonky
      @KonkyPlonky Годину тому +1

      I agree somehow you get the same kind of vibe from him and Ramanujan, while at the same time Euler feels closer to Gauss

    • @KonkyPlonky
      @KonkyPlonky 11 хвилин тому

      @@kazedcat ​​⁠ And for what I understand he was the one that discovered the taylor series of the number e. This is often overlooked and was the key for him to find the relationship with e and trigonometry through the imaginary number

  • @deltasquared7777
    @deltasquared7777 11 годин тому +17

    Lev Pontryagin, the brilliant Russian mathematician known for his work on topology, algebra, control theory and other areas of mathematics was totally blind since the age of 14

  • @Syndiate__
    @Syndiate__ 11 годин тому +48

    Euler discovered and created so much mathematics that there's literally a Wikipedia page JUST for listing the things named after and discovered by him

    • @Lecommandant_camroun
      @Lecommandant_camroun 6 годин тому +2

      Bro isn't a gigachad blud is a quettachad
      Jesus loves you!❤✝️Repent and God bless

  • @TechnoPandaPodcast
    @TechnoPandaPodcast Годину тому +4

    This has got to be the best video on Euler. Thank you

  • @markkennedy9767
    @markkennedy9767 Годину тому +1

    Brilliant man. If i'm not mistaken, Euler regarded the Bridges of Konigsberg problem as trivial and wondered why it was a problem at all 😂. And graph theory was born.

  • @mixmediaproductions
    @mixmediaproductions 10 годин тому +11

    I have a Euler in my genealogy frim Switzerland married Keller in USA around 1750

  • @kaunghtetkyaw1722
    @kaunghtetkyaw1722 5 годин тому +2

    I think you forgot one thing to mention. He also tried to prove the Maupertuis’s principle inherited from the Fermat’s derivation of least principle from Snell’s law. He had consumed a lot of time to express it with lots of difficulties. But later due to the help with young Lagrange’s solving, he was able to prove it to the equivalence with Newton’s second law of motion.

  • @iamthecondor
    @iamthecondor 9 годин тому +7

    Yessss finally, an episode on the 🐐

  • @brightenupcc
    @brightenupcc 7 годин тому +1

    Your videos serve to confirm that we are indeed not all born as equals. I would be beyond delighted to possess the naturally gifted minds of such subjects. Alas.

  • @christophernsofwa4058
    @christophernsofwa4058 11 годин тому +5

    My Favorite Mathematician

  • @propipette
    @propipette Годину тому +1

    at 9:36 it's the icosahedron that owns 20 faces

  • @jiahuahuang2143
    @jiahuahuang2143 7 годин тому

    I really respect Euler’s dedication to doing mathematics. Even while being blind, he still moves on from his setback and does mathematics despite it being much more difficult to do.

  • @cf6282
    @cf6282 Годину тому

    Amazing…..going to Bazel in February. I had heard of Euler in his studies. That he figured out so many things on his own…I struggle to apply what he has found. As an engineer and a pilot….I know about fluid dynamics. But I am a mere user of his thoughts and findings. The very thought that he actually figured it out is amazing. Thank you for sharing!

  • @notafraidofchange
    @notafraidofchange 9 годин тому +10

    6:23 Anyone else notice the ghost undo the curtain, or is it just me?

  • @juaneliasmillasvera
    @juaneliasmillasvera 4 години тому +1

    Euler is the master of all of us, no Gauss, no Euclid, and of course no Newton, Euler is the most relevant figure of History of Mathematics, I am so humble about all his work that is rare that I approach to his work directly becouse almost everything that you can imagine in nowadays mathematics or Euler started it or Euler developed enoght to be innecesary write more about it. Anyway we should read Euler.

  • @satishgupta-c8j
    @satishgupta-c8j 3 години тому +1

    He is master of us all ~ Pierre Simon Laplace

  • @wilville3752
    @wilville3752 11 годин тому +3

    Apparently he said now there is less to distract me from my work when he went blind

  • @karldavis7392
    @karldavis7392 5 годин тому

    I really respect how Euler continued to work after going blind at the age of 59, and worked right up to his death at age 76. But let's make it clear that Euler was not blind for most of his life or career. His most important work was completed before he went blind. A lot of his work was published years after it was written.

  • @Trasselsnodda
    @Trasselsnodda 10 годин тому +1

    That jacket looks so good on you! Love the color

  • @GirumTereka
    @GirumTereka 10 годин тому +4

    Amazing, I have almost seen all your videos and wondering these couple of days as to why you missed Euler. And here it is on my Android phone at 3 a m half a globe away in Addis Ababa. Synchronicity ?

  • @lourias
    @lourias 2 години тому

    I love hearing about the revolutionary works of ages gone by.

  • @TM-yn4iu
    @TM-yn4iu 5 годин тому

    I always find your videos engaging and entertaining, providing an "executive summary" on a variety of subjects. The presentation supported by factual research makes it that much better
    . Interesting side note, in reviewing comments on this video, I noticed your single response - at time of posting this comment, was one referring to your jacket. Had to laugh.

  • @here_4_beer
    @here_4_beer 33 хвилини тому

    Besides being one of the giants in math, he was a guy with a big heart.

  • @liggamiggan
    @liggamiggan 7 годин тому

    been waiting for this one what a treat!!!!

  • @DaSharedVideos
    @DaSharedVideos 5 годин тому

    Congratulations on surpassing 1 million subscribers.

  • @unknownanonymous1948
    @unknownanonymous1948 8 годин тому

    He was discussing about the newly discovered planets with his colleagues before collapsing. The video made him an old riteree in a solitary. The video didnt mention the beautiful eulogy "he ceased to calculate and to live". And I think those are beautiful end life of a remarkable person who once walk on this planet amongst us.

  • @GuardianGamerable
    @GuardianGamerable 9 годин тому +1

    Wow. Just wow. What a man.

  • @VivekSharma-x4z
    @VivekSharma-x4z 4 години тому

    Thankyou for this video. ❤

  • @bunburyvangyen
    @bunburyvangyen 8 годин тому

    Happy new year guys 😊
    Hope this year will have a good time in maths cuz year started with EULAR❤

  • @malsharanweera6784
    @malsharanweera6784 6 годин тому

    Thank u for considering my request ❤

  • @rccowsik7671
    @rccowsik7671 Годину тому

    Euler was a great mathematician who became blind and yet continued with great Mathematics

  • @Dr_LK
    @Dr_LK 8 годин тому

    Another masterclass by Cindy. Thank you.

  • @walidhamdy9808
    @walidhamdy9808 4 години тому

    I thought it was Gauss. Either way, they are undoubtedly two of the greatest mathematicians of all time.

  • @Goondawgs
    @Goondawgs 11 годин тому +2

    Euler is the goat🗣️🔥

  • @yoshikigrg8
    @yoshikigrg8 12 годин тому +2

    Love your channel. Big fan. ❤ 🔥

  • @avitimushi1541
    @avitimushi1541 4 години тому

    Leonhard Euler, the God of mathematics. 🎉😊

  • @wfm_3.1416
    @wfm_3.1416 6 годин тому +1

    9:26 The icosahedron and dodecahedron images and labels are in the wrong positions. They should be swapped.

  • @mishagelenava2962
    @mishagelenava2962 4 години тому

    Well, he was already the greatest, when he lost his eyesight. What's amazing is that he kept going after that.

  • @thecelebritypath
    @thecelebritypath Годину тому

    13:25 Blindness didn’t slow Euler down-he even joked about having ‘fewer distractions.’ Do you think his sense of humor and determination played a role in his success? How can we apply that mindset to challenges in our own lives?

  • @thegoldenratioandbeyond232
    @thegoldenratioandbeyond232 11 годин тому +3

    next up: Emmy Noether, Mary Shelley, Maryam Mirzakhani

  • @franciscocruz3364
    @franciscocruz3364 8 годин тому

    Ya era hora que hablen de este genio

  • @Avo-c1j
    @Avo-c1j 11 годин тому +2

    love ur content ❤❤🎉😊

  • @068LAICEPS
    @068LAICEPS 11 годин тому +4

    There should be a movie about him. You feel empowered and loving maths and physics when you learn about someone like Euler. Slow down the number of movies about WWII scientists.

  • @JustARandomUser-z2m
    @JustARandomUser-z2m 11 годин тому +1

    Amazing video

  • @paparmar
    @paparmar 6 годин тому

    I couldn't resist checking out the problems supposedly taken from the Elements of Algebra @13:36. It seems strange that only a single real solution is given for each problem. For example, for problem 5, the complex solutions -2 + 3i and -2 - 3i are not listed. In problem 10 there is a misprint: y = 5 is not a solution unless -330 is supposed to be -430 (and the other solution would be 86). So maybe Euler's eyesight really wasn't that great by then or something got lost in translation. Yeah, I'm a geek.

    • @alikaanoguzsimsaroglu5984
      @alikaanoguzsimsaroglu5984 5 годин тому

      i was thinking about the same thing, didnt think anyone would notice or care though. you got a nice eye for detail

  • @tadessebekeshie7231
    @tadessebekeshie7231 Годину тому

    A single work of Euler is enough to label him a famous mathematician . Eg. His solution of the Basel problem

  • @plantnt489
    @plantnt489 38 хвилин тому

    I wish there was a movie about Euler

  • @MrKrikkefy
    @MrKrikkefy 2 години тому

    @6:23 : what's happening with that curtain in the background?

  • @luisalonsohernandeztellez7030
    @luisalonsohernandeztellez7030 5 годин тому +1

    Grothendieck next Grothendieck next pleeeeaaaaaaseeeee

  • @Newstatejournal1
    @Newstatejournal1 5 годин тому

    Excellent!

  • @ocshorts9817
    @ocshorts9817 11 годин тому +1

    Can you do a video about Napoleon Bonaparte next?

    • @Rockyzach88
      @Rockyzach88 5 годин тому

      Doesn't someone has some insecurities they need to work out?

  • @kruksog
    @kruksog Годину тому

    Unexpected treat, but a treat nonetheless. Euler is one of the greats, and it's a shame the world doesn't respect mathematics like it does the physical sciences. Euler should have the same status as Newton, Einstein, or Curie. One of the greatest minds ever (and was apparently a good human to boot.)

  • @faisalsheikh7846
    @faisalsheikh7846 12 годин тому +1

    I knew sooner or later this gonna happen

    • @Lecommandant_camroun
      @Lecommandant_camroun 6 годин тому

      She's doing these types of videos a lot now
      Jesus loves you!❤✝️Repent and God bless

  • @LoganNye-CMU
    @LoganNye-CMU 5 годин тому

    You're telling me he went blind in one eye in the year 1738?? Euler was the Fetty Wap of mathematics

  • @r4v4g3r
    @r4v4g3r 9 годин тому

    Even if half of it were false he’d have lived ten times the life of a normal man… incredible.

  • @BirdsAreVeryCool
    @BirdsAreVeryCool 2 години тому

    6:21 the background scared me

  • @nijionphone2255
    @nijionphone2255 2 години тому

    I don't know why I cried.

  • @ronatola
    @ronatola 3 години тому

    I wonder if he had our computers if it would have exponentially helped him, or if it would have killed his discoveries in the crib, and made his mind lazy by not learning the basics, and relying too heavily on our electronic computers.

  • @pelasgeuspelasgeus4634
    @pelasgeuspelasgeus4634 6 годин тому +1

    The euler formula is wrong. One side is the exp function which ranges to infinity by definition. Other side is a sum of trig functions each ranging between -1 & 1, ie its always finite also by definition. Don't you see the issue? And the root of that error, that strangely no one sees, is that euler used the Taylor series for exp function and entered iθ in it. But that Taylor series was validated for real numbers only. Is iθ a real number?

  • @two_tier_gary_rumain
    @two_tier_gary_rumain 55 хвилин тому

    So, is it Euler or Gauss?

  • @azharalibhutto1209
    @azharalibhutto1209 8 годин тому

    Great ❤❤❤

  • @edcew8236
    @edcew8236 9 годин тому +2

    Why do you imply that a mathematician should abandon Christianity?

  • @mehdizangiabadi-iw6tn
    @mehdizangiabadi-iw6tn 6 годин тому

    People can't understand math deeply this subject is case someone They simply accept. 2:45

  • @markkennedy9767
    @markkennedy9767 Годину тому

    French accent on point 😅

  • @grantguy8933
    @grantguy8933 11 годин тому +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @Rockyzach88
    @Rockyzach88 5 годин тому

    TBF most children or adults don't know algebra today. We're still d af overall.

  • @omargaber3122
    @omargaber3122 6 годин тому +1

    Euler is the impossible man

  • @عليسعد-س5غ9ز
    @عليسعد-س5غ9ز 4 години тому

    Cool😊

  • @warren-gump
    @warren-gump Годину тому

    El mejor

  • @shouyouhinata5599
    @shouyouhinata5599 12 годин тому +1

  • @ButlerWho
    @ButlerWho 8 годин тому

    13:29 I love this channel but I wish you would stop using these rubbish AI-generated images. This one has a candle sprouting from the middle of a book for goodness' sake.

  • @Lecommandant_camroun
    @Lecommandant_camroun 6 годин тому

    Gigachad
    Jesus loves you!❤✝️Repent and God bless
    If you love me, keep my commands.
    John 14:15

  • @arjenpos
    @arjenpos 4 години тому +1

    Informative but very very very non attractive to listen to. The voice is an endless stream of words. Speeding, no rest, as if a 90s computer reads it. I stopped it.

    • @dannybodros5180
      @dannybodros5180 Годину тому

      It's an AI generated video, of course the speech sound like a computer.

  • @ricardovencio
    @ricardovencio 51 хвилина тому

    e

  • @mrseriousv1
    @mrseriousv1 Годину тому

    criminally low view count

  • @neilrichardson7454
    @neilrichardson7454 9 годин тому +1

    Make up your mind. You called Gauss the greatest in an earlier video.😊

  • @dannybodros5180
    @dannybodros5180 2 години тому +1

    This is AI generated vomit.

    • @charmer1979
      @charmer1979 Годину тому +1

      Sick of ai videos :( I think a warning should be placed at the start.

    • @dannybodros5180
      @dannybodros5180 Годину тому +1

      @@charmer1979 Yeah, I agree. Hopefully with time, filters will be added to ferret out AI videos from everything else.