50 Centuries in 50 minutes (A Brief History of Mathematics)

50 Centuries in 50 minutes (A Brief History of Mathematics) GRCCtv 29.6K subscribers Subscribe 6.9K Share Download Clip Save 524K views 10 years ago John Dersch (9/19/12) How did we get the mathematics that is studied today? Who was responsible for major advances in the mathematics that we now take for granted? When and where did this work take pla … 611 Comments Add a comment... @richardsonpwilliam01 8 years ago The older I get, the more I realize math is one of the most interesting subjects to learn and master. 211 Reply 8 replies @elbingeorge 8 years ago I can't believe myself. I actually watched the full video in one go. The professor is an absolute delight to hear. 252 Reply @feynstein1004 @feynstein1004 9 months ago There wasn't a single boring moment in the entire video. The whole 54 minutes passed by in an instant. Amazing lecture 😃 8 Reply @roberteng768 @roberteng768 5 years ago Dear Prof John Dersch, this is great history, perspective on mathematics. Can you please do one as a sequel to this one on the 20th century mathematics development so we can tie all the new developments and new branches of development together? 32 Reply @jwt242 @jwt242 9 years ago Excellent lecture; he did an excellent job presenting what he characterized as "fifty weeks" of information in fifty minutes. He accomplished this by not presenting any mathematics per se, but he really had no choice and his presentation definitely discusses mathematics; he just doesn't show the equations. Very interesting talk. 12 Reply @Kenji314159 @Kenji314159 6 years ago I wanna thank you for uploading this, and thank Professor John Dersch for his excellent presentation. 8 Reply @user-hb8xk9io1o @user-hb8xk9io1o 4 years ago Stunning. I like his lecturing style. Much better than what I experienced most of the time... 11 Reply @jenniferw8963 @jenniferw8963 6 years ago Might want to mention that Leibniz was involved with the binary number system we use today way back then. From Wikipedia: The modern binary number system was devised by Gottfried Leibniz in 1679 and appears in his article Explication de l'Arithmétique Binaire (published in 1703). Systems related to binary numbers have appeared earlier in multiple cultures including ancient Egypt, China, and India. Leibniz was specifically inspired by the Chinese I Ching. 8 Reply @MrEyee2 @MrEyee2 7 years ago Absolutely brilliant! A very well delivered lecture, thanks. 9 Reply @starmanskye @starmanskye 5 years ago WoW ~ This lecturer John Dersch is SO wonderful ... He has the knack/gift for hiolding attention and imparting knowledge in a very engaging, interesting and personable way, ie with the sensitivity and depth of charisma~ I LOVE his style. Maybe the subject and his apparant appreciation for the history of mathematics is what makes his lecture so intriguing ... 4 Reply @nestorlovesguitar @nestorlovesguitar 9 years ago Thank you very much professor, it was a really interesting presentation. Now I 'd love a detailed account of each century :) 4 Reply @RightToSelfDefense @RightToSelfDefense 8 years ago Very good survey of Math History. I too have degrees in Mathematics and Engineering, but I am not even a shadow of Dr. Shannon. While in school, I missed the Math History class. It was not in my priority at the time. Dr. Dersch, I think you did a great job. You and I know one could do the work for a PhD just in Math History alone. It is amazing what you can find on Youtube today. I know you were time-limited, but if I had my choice I would have added a section on Statistics and Probability. Thanks. 3 Reply @dcterr1 @dcterr1 2 years ago Very good, comprehensive lecture! I think you covered all the key points of the development of most of the math we are familiar with and use today. Great job! 3 Reply @cpiesch @cpiesch 9 years ago Absolutely fantastic lecture. Very nicely done. :) 12 Reply @hddm3 @hddm3 8 years ago man just think if we had more professors like this we would be the smartest people on earth. love this guy! great job!!! 13 Reply 2 replies @jblattnernyc @jblattnernyc 2 years ago Does anyone (perhaps someone who attended or took his class) have the missing slide (42:36) with regards to Galois Theory? The screen was not filmed when it was initially presented. This lecture is absolutely incredible, thanks for any help! =) 4 Reply @jonnie303 @jonnie303 5 years ago Superb presentation, loved it. Only thing missing, for me, was the invention (or discovery) of imaginary numbers. 9 Reply 1 reply @RealNRD @RealNRD 9 years ago Fantastic! Are there any other lectures by this professor online? 2 Reply @NandishPatelV @NandishPatelV 1 year ago I was completely enthralled by the story and lost in the wonder of mathematics you created, until you said we're coming to the end! Great! Thank you! KeepSmiling 😊🌺 3 Reply @dominicparry5879 @dominicparry5879 8 years ago So fascinating! Too bad he didn't go more deeply into 20th century mathematics though. 3 Reply @jaydunstan1618 @jaydunstan1618 2 years ago My goodness. I was only going to tune in for 5 minutes and ended up watching it all. He is simply brilliant. Thank you Sir! 3 Reply @skeletonrowdie1768 @skeletonrowdie1768 6 years ago Great summary of the history in maths in just 50 minutes! Awesome :D 15 Reply @bendavis2234 @bendavis2234 4 months ago Amazing lecture! The one missing name from the talk that I wish was mentioned was David Hilbert. Otherwise, I think this lecture was about as comprehensive as you can get for a 50 minute lecture on the entire history of math. Well done 2 Reply @melaniewilliams7425 @melaniewilliams7425 7 years ago So happy to have come across this well thought out and beautifully articulated synopsis. 4 Reply @johnwilliams3555 @johnwilliams3555 5 years ago Fargen brill. It is so good when lecturers know their stuff and are prepared to part with it. 4 Reply @JoshPeterson @JoshPeterson 5 years ago What a wonderful lecture. Thank you for posting this. 2 Reply @uberprinny23 @uberprinny23 9 years ago Very interesting! I'm starting a module in history of mathematics tomorrow at King's College London and this was a great crash course! 8 Reply @floridaman6982 @floridaman6982 2 years ago Cool stuff, i wish math class would be more about discovery and critical think than drilling techniques no one learns fully. I hope to teach one day once Ive learned much more 3 Reply @johnlandis2552 @johnlandis2552 8 years ago a first-rate exposition done in an engaging manner! ;five stars out of five! 84 Reply @crazystemlady @crazystemlady 4 months ago 30:44 I love anecdotes like this. Truly lifts me up in a humanitarian way Reply @DEDE-ix9lg @DEDE-ix9lg 1 year ago no exaggeration , one of the greatest videos i watched all time. [ was never a good math student , but now will be ] Reply @smrititiwari8243 @smrititiwari8243 5 years ago thank you professor ! it was an awesome lecture :D 2 Reply @Floxflow @Floxflow 6 years ago Great presentation. Thanks to Professor John Dersch 1 Reply @brynbstn @brynbstn 7 years ago Thanks, really good video - I watched the whole thing, which is rare for a 50' vid - very well presented, well paced, easy going + humor. The referrals to books at the end is appreciated. The only criticism is the camera work - - couldn't always see what you were referring to. Would have been interesting hear a little more about mathematics in the 20th century, but maybe you need another 50 minutes for that. 11 Reply @alancrasto9282 @alancrasto9282 9 years ago What an amazing teacher! 3 Reply @NeedsEvidence @NeedsEvidence 8 years ago Nice talk. I find it amazing how difficult and long the process was that shaped the face of mathematics we are now familiar with, including the establishment of symbols like = + - * / that we find trivial nowadays. 4 Reply @covariance5446 @covariance5446 2 years ago Currently 26 minutes in! I'm going to pause and take a sec to write that I hope he mentions Ronald Fisher being the father of modern day statistics. It's really cool to see the variation in the age of various disciplines within math! Reply @Starter61 @Starter61 8 years ago Excellent presentation, congratulations, very well done. 5 Reply @The_Gamer_Couple @The_Gamer_Couple 1 year ago Awesome talk, learned a lot and it was engaging and interesting Reply @dreia2405 @dreia2405 6 years ago (edited) this was a brilliant lecture, thank you very much 1 Reply @brianmaresca1615 @brianmaresca1615 1 year ago Good, quick intro to many of the highlights in the development of Mathematics throughout the past 25, or so, centuries. A few inaccuracies; The lasting impact on math of The Elements has much more to do with the Number Theory contained therein than the geometry. The Greeks knew about and studied Perfect Numbers, for example, in the third century BC. Another detail; the Method of Least Squares, which Gauss seems to at least have allowed people to believe was his, was the work of Legendre (1752-1833), a French mathematician. In the brief discussion of 20th century math at the end of the lecture, the professor seems to blur the two separate and equally epochal contributions of Claude E. Shannon; they are: the application of Boolean Algebra to the design of electronic (digital) circuits (Shannon's master's thesis "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits" MIT (1937)) and "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" in which Shannon presented the mathematical tools, based on probability theory and a concept he introduced called information entropy, which allowed for the design of the protocols which are the electronic backbone of all digital communicationn today. It IS gratifying to have the professor acknowledge the enormous contributions of Claude E. Shannon. 1 Reply @daviddemar8749 @daviddemar8749 6 years ago very nice ☺ thanks. I would steer viewers who like this topic to Prof. Patrick Devlin's series on YouTube (Stanford University channel) on the history of mathematics. in addition to a detailed nuanced chronology, his lectures contain compelling hypotheses regarding why certain breakthroughs occurred when and where they happened 6 Reply 1 reply @RichardFreeberg @RichardFreeberg 1 month ago I love it when I find mathematicians that can explain math without mathematics ... Reply @kofY84 @kofY84 7 years ago The professor knows what hes talking about. Great lecture. 29 Reply @Laserwad @Laserwad 5 years ago 11:01 Rubaiyat is one of my favourite reads and memorizations. Omar was a mathematician of considerable penetration who also gave expression in poetry to Persia's freest thought. 6 Reply 2 replies @anuzis @anuzis 6 years ago Well done! My vote for recent math that will remain relevant in 100 years is Bayes Theorem and probability theory for it's essential roles in artificial intelligence, physics, etc. Reply 1 reply @AlphaFoxDelta @AlphaFoxDelta 4 years ago He does an excellent job of conveying the, gravity, of Principia and its influence on just about everything in Science Reply @davidwilkie9551 @davidwilkie9551 5 years ago You could have ten lectures like this in succession and say after each one, "and then it gets more interesting ". Thanks. 1 Reply @lylecosmopolite @lylecosmopolite 7 years ago Between 1120 and 1160, three Europeans translated the Arabic translation of Euclid's elements into Latin, making it possible for mathematics to become part of the curriculum of the earliest universities (Bologna, Paris, Oxford, Cambridge). Euclid in Arabic was readily available via Moorish Spain. 100 years later, the first European mathematician since ancient Greece appeared: Fibonacci. The Arabic numerals diffused slowly, not becoming common knowledge among educated people until 1500. Algebra as we know it emerged between 1450 and 1620. The first trig and log tables appeared starting around 1600. Around 1620, Descartes discovered the bridge between algebra and geometry: coordinate systems, and the pace of European mathematical discovery quickened: calculus, complex numbers, modern algebra, statistics, set theory, formal logic. Now the whole world studies the mathematics discovered in Europe and the USA over the past 500 years. The methods of proof used before 1830 often invoked vague concepts, and drew on unspoken intuition. Not infrequently, proofs were outright wrong, and this afflicted even Euclid's elements. Starting with Cauchy, Riemann and Weierstrass had to rebuild calculus from scratch, in the process creating real and complex analysis. Yet despite the frequent use of sloppy hand waving methods, effectively all of calculus derived before 1830 turned out to be correct, only badly proven. This historical bit shows that mathematics is, at heart, grounded in a powerful intuition. The 19th century pedantic fascination with proofs and definitions eventually led to formal logic and set theory and transformed mathematics into a collection of axiomatic systems. 6 Reply 11 replies @imjustcool.450 @imjustcool.450 3 years ago He is very easy to listen to. Thank you for posting. 🙏🏾✌🏾 2 Reply @biancaaguglia3742 @biancaaguglia3742 4 years ago Such a beautiful presentation. Great job. 1 Reply @charlesmurtaugh3771 @charlesmurtaugh3771 1 month ago One of the more delightful 54 minutes and 21 seconds that I’ve spent lately! Reply @jmguevarajordan @jmguevarajordan 8 months ago This video is good and it tells a big truth. The elementary calculus rules and even the fundamental theorem of calculus were known intuitively long before Newton and Leibniz published their work, and it was communicated in a verbal form. Scientists, one century before Newton and Leibniz, knew that calculus rules were valid on polynomials. In fact, you can discover or guess all calculus theorems, intuitively, by working with polynomials, as the video says high school students do that all time. The problem was the notation to represent the calculus operations and its application. The correct notation for calculus was created by Leibni(t)z and the applications to difficult physical problems (the easy ones were solved by Galileo and his followers) was Newton's achievement. Reply @eagillum @eagillum 7 years ago Wonderful! Well paced and very interesting. 4 Reply @edgarmatias @edgarmatias 2 years ago I wish I had more than 1 like to give this video. Give this man a raise. Reply @0bzen22 @0bzen22 4 years ago (edited) Hard to imagine a world without calculus and algebra. I guess that's what they all thought about geometry and counting numbers. 4 Reply @LLC888 @LLC888 3 years ago Thank you. Very engaging and comprehensive . Reply @eleazaralmazan4089 @eleazaralmazan4089 8 years ago Amazing lecture! 2 Reply @AhmedTahagg @AhmedTahagg 8 years ago Great video,I hope he had talked about complex numbers! 1 Reply @jepassos @jepassos 1 year ago The great thing about this video, is that most of us will be surprised! One may think that a 50 minutes talk, may be superficial... but the surprise is to learn something important... Reply @powerdriller4124 @powerdriller4124 1 year ago Profesor Dersch being in the Mathematician side throws here two or three darts to Engineers, says for example that Shannon was in the Math gang but the Engineers abducted him. He could have mentioned the scandal that Electrical Engineer Oliver Heaviside caused when in he mid 19th Century he used an outrageous (for Mathematicians) method to solve differential equations. Heaviside was using the derivative operators "d/dt" (he shorted it to "D") as if it were a variable! As if in "1+1=2" we would require to know the value of sign operator "+" !! That happens in the middle of the endeavor to rigor and formalize Calculus and solve the "Limits Riddle." The scandal gave additional fuel to the will and initiative to clarify and formalize. That effort gave fruit with Set Theory, Laplace Transform, Fourier Analysis, Complex Analysis etc... . However, the longed for "Holy Grial, Mother of All" solid rock foundations proved to be non-provable with Gödel. 2 Reply @YANKTON1000 @YANKTON1000 9 years ago Very well done, both the mathematics and the presentation, which held my interest for the full program. I learned a great deal. I would like to see Prof. Dersch speak on the topic of the square root of 2. especially the proof that the SQRT(2) is truly a random number. I copied one of the 1 million-digit expansions of SQRT(2) and ran an FFT analysis, and was befuddled to see a flat noise spectrum, meaning to me random data. How can an algorithim produce random data ? Didn't know such was possible. 1 Reply 2 replies @shamasundaragaram5585 @shamasundaragaram5585 2 years ago Indians (Hindus) had significant advances in arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry in 3000 BC or earlier. Sulba Sutras talked of (so called) Pythogarous theorem, since then till 18th / 19th century there were significant developments in India on different aspects of mathematics including arithmetics, geometry, trigonometry, algebra and calculus... notable names of Indian mathematicians (and astronomers) include Aryabhata, Bhaskara, Brahmagupta, Panini, Pingala, Madhava, Mahavira, Varaha Mihira, Nilakanta.... and so on. Many of the details are available in web if one searches.!!! 3 Reply 1 reply @josephkarogo-amethystinsur7247 @josephkarogo-amethystinsur7247 6 years ago Very educative!! Thanks for the upload. 3 Reply @raymondlai5 @raymondlai5 8 years ago Hi GRCCtv =), Thank you for taking the time and effort to both upload and share this video with the youtube family. I hope you have a nice day! =). 1 Reply @sebvv5219 @sebvv5219 1 year ago This is a very nice summary, but I think you should have mentioned Gentzen, shortly after talking about Gödel. Reply @gaussianvector2093 @gaussianvector2093 1 year ago TL;DR I was struggling with his concept of "Calculus" being much deeper than "The Calculus" the following thought trail helped me with that. I define mathematics as study for the sake of study, necessitating all constraints be optional I define Algebra as abstraction I define calculus as generalizing algebraic abstractions to thier limits I define arithmetic as using the results of mathematics with non-optional constraints. The calculus would be a subset of arithmetic. Most people define it by patterns or as a language, but these are just a class of things we can study and a tool to do so respectively. Mathematics is all about that light bulb moment, purely. maybe one could show an equivalence, using Noether's theorem and showing the necessity of invariants to understanding, as most all mathematics does seem to involve patterns, but that's not what its truly about for the mathematician. the physicist seek understanding with the constraints of reality the chemists seek understanding with the constraints of stable nuclei the biologist seeks knowledge with the constraints of life the sociologist seeks understanding with the constraints interacting, dynamic, life and statistical validation. the psychologists seeks understanding with the constraints of how dynamic life tends to affect how we understand i.e. the understanding of understanding. (Full circle, I believe any other study to be a subset of one of the above, or a subjective art, or simply fancy arithmetic) The mathematician simply seeks understanding, that light bulb moment. Some say math is art, maybe at the limit of subjective and objective sits mathematics (we are so free); however I believe it is the purest science and the only one in which we can actually prove things (all others use the word proof to mean overwhelming evidence not yet debunked), Hence the most objective study of them all. If you show me your axioms I can see that all your theorems follow. Reply @elmohead @elmohead 3 years ago This is a very euro-centric view of mathematics. For example, no mention of Zu Zhongzhi, who estimated π to the correct value for its seven first decimal digits, this value of remained the most accurate approximation of π available for the next 800 years. Reply @robinbebbington7063 @robinbebbington7063 6 years ago That was fascinating to watch. Have you done a similar one for the last 100 years? 3 Reply 2 replies @JoshuaHernandezPH @JoshuaHernandezPH 7 years ago This is amazing. It's like history of mathematics for dummies. Thank you Professor Dersch. Reply @DanielHettenbach1 @DanielHettenbach1 6 years ago Great lecture! 1 Reply @pogonoah99 @pogonoah99 7 years ago Ah, I was hoping he would talk about our progression from whole numbers to all the other kinds of numbers. For a long time, people denied negative numbers, saying that you could not go behind zero. And then, once that was accepted, it took a long time for people to accept irrational numbers as well! Only pi was accepted, but things like the square root of 2 were thought to be non-numbers, and they denied irrational numbers for the sake of purity. And finally the imaginary numbers came along, and some of the greatest mathematicians of the time dismissed them in the same way that previous numbers were dismissed. In fact, I recall that the term "imaginary" was given to these numbers to be a derogatory term! It's interesting how, with each new generation of humans, we continue to progress in our thinking. 5 Reply 5 replies @jvincent6548 @jvincent6548 3 years ago Very interesting (33mins30 or so). 1600 AD - 1700 AD: a century where at the beginning of it, everything - everything, not just in the field of mathematics - was essentially recognisable to anyone living before that time. At the end of that century, everything recognisable to us today was essentially observable, in politics, languages, nation states (if not yet politically but certainly ethnically), religion etc. History is like one of those old multiple-strand, hessian ropes lying messily on the deck of a ship before it is coiled tidily away, with some strands fraying, some strands splitting and broken... Reply @arj123sub @arj123sub 4 years ago Fantastic lecture Reply @michaelbauers8800 @michaelbauers8800 8 years ago I saw a lot of argument here about who did what first. One fascinating bit of history which I was not taught in math was the Kerala school. 14th to 16th century and they already knew some calculus and stuff on infinite series. 21 Reply 2 replies @shoot4thesingle @shoot4thesingle 1 year ago Mathematics existed BEFORE the Ancient Greeks. For example, the Egyptians were pretty good in math because one of their main problems was how to redivide the land close to Nile after a flood. They also used math for accounting purposes. The “Rhind Mathematical papyrus” (in the British Museum) has a number of math problems, say, how many loafs of bread you should be able to get from a certain volume of grain. The Greeks took all these empirical formulae, enhanced them with new results, and developed “axiomatic math,” where using a few axioms one can progressively solve new problems using established knowledge. Plato called that process “epistimi,” (science). Reply @superhdgaming7914 @superhdgaming7914 8 years ago Nice presentation of math history! Reply @user-vg7zv5us5r @user-vg7zv5us5r 10 months ago 24:30 How do you graph your example ( x^3 + x^2 - x = 0) if you have only 1 variable, thus only a number line will be in front of you visually? Reply @nastohkohistani4196 @nastohkohistani4196 1 year ago Amazing! He didnt mention about the originator of the idea of Algorithm, historically speaking. Reply @psilvakimo @psilvakimo 3 years ago Strange that he didn't mention Rene Descartes, the inventor of analytic geometry. Reply @freeble123 @freeble123 7 years ago Brilliant presentation! 1 Reply @y2an @y2an 3 years ago Terrific. Puzzled that he didn’t mention Bertrand Russell Reply @afterthesmash @afterthesmash 2 years ago (edited) As soon as you have three guys who paint their spears, the first time a lion is sighted outside camp, the men all grab their spears so fast they don't even care whose is whose—only everyone can immediately tell by the spirit paint that the dispensation was a giant clustershuffle—and now you have a visible fixed-point in correspondence under permutation (no man goes without a spear if each man grabs one spear in any order). Of course, all the onlookers are mostly worried about whether the Gods will be angry about Bear running around with the eagle spear, Eagle running around with the wolf spear and Wolf running around with the bear spear. So the real insight was atheism: "you know what, it doesn't really matter about the bear–eagle–wolf celestial Susie-spin, what matters is one man to one spear, so that all men are properly armed". If you're really brave you brazenly observe out loud, "well, better some spear than no spear at all" while the rest of the horrified tribe double-down on their prostate penance, cringing inside as they await your instant smiting by a giant white bolt of thunderous lightening. After about a minute of abject cringing, you add, "hey everyone, I'm still standing; God must be away on bidness, bidness." Then the cute girl says, "hey, that line would go really great with a tuba, an accordion, and an ostrich". She's so psychic before her time it's not even funny. And then everyone moans as they dust off their knees, "oh come on, this is the paleolithic age, where in heck would we get a tuba?" And she says "when the wind howls, sometimes the rocks in the fire pit begin to perspire, but then when the rock cools down again the next morning, the rock-sweat is hard again and much the same as it ever was—if sometimes after rubbing with the right kind of beach sand, curiously shinier than before. I mean, come on, once you have liquid rock that solidifies again in a different shape, you can fabricate almost anything. Don't you all see? I mean, it's so obvious." And thus the maker movement attained its first inkling of second gear. Reply @hxly2 @hxly2 9 years ago He mentions the origin of the Hindu-Arabic numerals, the translation of Greek Mathematics, Algebra and Al-Kwarizmi, and Omar Khayyam. 1 Reply @Modinthalis @Modinthalis 10 years ago Deeply, deeply fascinating. 1 Reply @afterthesmash @afterthesmash 2 years ago I'm all for mentioning Shannon's bit, but you can't reasonably go there and not also mention Turing's computable numbers. Next in line for me would be Benoît Mandelbrot, David Deutsch and Peter Shor. Deutsch and Shor finally escape the conceptual boundaries of Turing's universal computer, by exploiting non-deterministic quantum physics. Finally, in a lecture at this level, I would tip my hat to monstrous moonshine, with direct ties to the Monster group at the head of the table of sporadic groups, whose complete enumeration was almost certainly the largest joint mathematical project all time. All by itself, monstrous moonshine was a big deal: Borcherds proved the Conway–Norton conjecture for the Moonshine Module in 1992, winning the Fields Medal in 1998 in part for his solution of the conjecture. That award nicely book-ends the century as a whole. Furthermore, you can never go wrong pumping the tires of any result that tracks back to John Horton Conway. On 11 April 2020, at age 82, John Horton Conway died of complications from COVID-19. Based on a 1978 observation by mathematician John McKay, Conway and Norton formulated the complex of conjectures known as monstrous moonshine. This subject, named by Conway, relates the monster group with elliptic modular functions, thus bridging two previously distinct areas of mathematics—finite groups and complex function theory. Monstrous moonshine theory has now been revealed to also have deep connections to string theory. Nor can you go wrong pumping the tires of any result that tracks back to Ed Witten. 1 Reply @ElSmusso @ElSmusso 9 years ago Very good lecture. Thanx. 1 Reply @chastaine813 @chastaine813 8 years ago Good lecture. Makes me want to learn more Maths. Reply @vitakyo982 @vitakyo982 4 years ago (edited) Sumerian cuneiform tablets : 3600 bc . 100 000 bc : cave men were drawing abstract symbols on the walls & they were most probably able to count what they were hunting . They were also counting the number of full moons ( we have discovered very old bones on which stripes were made ) , this to figure out when would start the hunting season ... Counting is VERY old ... 4 Reply @steaminglobster @steaminglobster 9 months ago Someone said "if you want to know any subject well, knows its history". This is not just someone, it is Chairman Mao. Thanks for the professor! Reply @shoot4thesingle @shoot4thesingle 1 year ago The main difference between Egyptian mathematics and Greek mathematics (besides the limited scope of Egyptian math) is the Egyptians knew math as “empirical rules” while the Greeks had invented “mathematical proof”. And that is a critical difference! It is the very essence of math! In a real sense, the Greeks invented math! Reply @devigollpauid5121 @devigollpauid5121 2 years ago Great lecture Reply @wayneisaacs4899 @wayneisaacs4899 6 years ago This is the first talk I have heard Claude Shannon receive his due. Impossible to overstate Shannon's contribution. Often neglected compared to Von Neumann and Turing, Shannon not only accomplished the practical engineering of the modern computer, but went on to enunciate the essential parameters of information science which endure unchanged today. 6 Reply 1 reply @UnitedPebbles @UnitedPebbles 5 years ago Can you sum this video up as that early math was involved functions or to applied? Given the facts were based on some concrete/tangible evidences i.e. architecture that survived the destruction of time? Reply @pbhello @pbhello 8 years ago Thank you very much for posting this. I enjoyed it Reply @stevesastrohowardkings2245 @stevesastrohowardkings2245 2 years ago I like when he said variables actually Varied 25 min in the time line Reply @jaybiswasyoutubechann1831 @jaybiswasyoutubechann1831 3 years ago (edited) This actually lessened my unknown algebraic symbol fear ...it is not that a different symbol means a whole knew different knowledge of mathematics which is way way different than everything...it is not! Reply @davidcampos1463 @davidcampos1463 7 years ago I have a question. Can the history of mathematics be displayed using only mathematical symbols? The use of highlight colours may be helpful. Is this possible? 1 Reply 1 reply @lacuevadelvampiro @lacuevadelvampiro 5 years ago Omar Khayyam was also a great poet. Reply @hyphenpointhyphen @hyphenpointhyphen 7 years ago I'm entertained - great lecture. Reply @RLekhy @RLekhy 5 years ago One correction, the dating of mathematics in India seems unrealistic. It should be before Egypt or at least on same time line of Egypt and Babylonia. Archaeologists have discovered some weight and measurement devices at Harrapa (Indus Valley) which are dated more than 5K years ago. 6 Reply 2 replies @KiranKiran-yp1vl @KiranKiran-yp1vl 4 years ago We Indians already established our maths initial surviving proof as veda. In yajurvedha we already have counting in 10 base, edited/organised date is around 3762 bce as of now... 4 Reply 3 replies @gm679 @gm679 7 years ago brilliant...what a voice for a presentation. Reply @AsuriSaran @AsuriSaran 1 year ago Good. But it is surprising that the Indian contribution to mathematics is either omitted or grossly ignored for reasons best known to you. Any history without mentioning India is incomplete. 1 Reply @angeluomo @angeluomo 9 years ago Great job! Reply @rr-jp7kg @rr-jp7kg 2 years ago Many ancient Hindu temples were destroyed by dark forces about a thousand years ago. Vast libraries of Nalanda and Taxila were burnt down by these forces of darkness. It is said that these libraries took months to stop burning. These libraries contained works in science, mathematics, medicine, philosophy etc. These Hindu temples were ancient in those days. These temples were built using mathematics? Does that mean that the ancient Hindu mathematics system is much much older than what is being suggested in your video? 1 Reply @johnaugsburger6192 @johnaugsburger6192 5 years ago I love this stuff! 1 Reply @hkiajtaqks5253 @hkiajtaqks5253 2 years ago (edited) Indians knew of deductive reasoning and different forms of evidences. Math used empirical proofs because they were more interested in doing things with that knowledge like building ships, temples, sea navigation, accurate time keeping (something the Romans couldn't figure out for a long time). The idea of axiomatic proofs was not there because it was a recent invention. Contrary to popular belief, even Euclid's book on elements didn't provide axiomatic proofs. It is unfair to say that all the math was recreational or to reject all empirical development since it doesn't meet today's standard of proofs. 1 Reply @RubenHogenhout @RubenHogenhout 8 years ago X^5 + -10*X^3 + 50*X + 50 = 0 Can some give the solutions in radicals of this quintic? ( I do ) Reply @ThinkTank255 @ThinkTank255 8 years ago Bashing Fermat is common among modern mathematicians, but Fermat was CENTURIES ahead of his time in mathematics and physics. Fermat invented calculus (Newton STOLE Fermat's work), statistics, principle of least action/time, number theory (including Fermat's Little Theorem (used in modern cryptography) and numerous theorems, optics, etc... including his now famous "Last Theorem") and MANY other things. He was FAR beyond any "professional" mathematicians of his time. Modern mathematicians call him an "amateur" as a way to relegate him to the corners of history, because they want retribution for him not write down his proof to his Last Theorem (which is called the "Fermat's Last Theorem" because it was the LAST of his numerous theorems to be proven, since he left proof for only a few, and commonly challenged other mathematicians to prove things he had already proven). We also do not have the proof to his polygonal number theorem, yet mathematicians always conveniently sweep that fact under the rug (or simply are not even aware, but they get the standard line fed to them from the top of the mathematical community "food chain", and they never bother to question it). 4 Reply 1 reply @GH123XL @GH123XL 9 years ago My apology for asking but, what was the story from function to distribution? Which one comes first? function first or distribution first?. I need the history of distribution (mathematical distribution) in the book form if you could enlight me on that issue. Thank you very much. Please accept my apology because I am not mathematician (yet). I am learning mathematics. Thank you very much. 1 Reply 3 replies @ayrlinrenata @ayrlinrenata 1 year ago If I told myself from a couple years ago I would be staying up until 3:30 am taking notes on math history for fun, i'd be asking where is the real me and what happened to them. Reply @jonklopez @jonklopez 2 years ago Wish I payed more attention in my calculus classes. 1 Reply @hansvetter8653 @hansvetter8653 8 months ago (edited) Amazing talk! Thank you! But referencing math and its influence to digitisation referencing Shannon, atleast if you think of computers, you missed for that the most important mathematician ... Alan Touring ... ! ... Reply @nagabhushanar.s6113 @nagabhushanar.s6113 3 months ago The subject of truth ,and mystery , fortified by logic and proof is Mathematics. Reply @jacoblittmann2807 @jacoblittmann2807 4 years ago Love this guy Reply @kumar_kiran @kumar_kiran 9 months ago Though it is Euro-centric Presentation but gives good bit of a history of European maths. Reply @gabrielv3654 @gabrielv3654 9 years ago If Robin Williams was a mathematician... 94 Reply 2 replies @anirbanc88 @anirbanc88 11 months ago you teach so well and look like robin williams i love it!! Reply @Christians4Science1 @Christians4Science1 3 years ago Very Good. Thank you. Reply @brianlee4987 @brianlee4987 10 years ago he only has 50 minutes :P im sure he would have covered that age extensively if he had the entire semester to lecture. theres no way he could skip that age! 1 Reply @rrar23 @rrar23 3 years ago What about Brahmagupta who found zero and four fundamental operations the way we do today, negative numbers, fractions, etc 2 Reply 1 reply @martydonnellan9432 @martydonnellan9432 2 years ago Thx I learned a lot. Reply @sukratu @sukratu 1 year ago A splendid evening! Thanks! Reply @dylanparker130 @dylanparker130 8 years ago really lovely & interesting talk 1 Reply @kizzymulcaster6057 @kizzymulcaster6057 7 years ago excellent learned allot :) Reply @matthewmann8969 @matthewmann8969 6 years ago Whether people use rulers, clocks, money, gold, bricks, diamonds, coppers, bronzes, irons, steels, silvers, crystals, platinums, calenders, timers, watches, loans, fees, debit cards, credit cards, gift cards, express cards, checks, balances, cash, coins, bars, receipts, IOU'S, it all has some form of mathematical abilities involved 1 Reply @ccpektezel @ccpektezel 4 years ago The students there are very lucky. Reply @whatthehey4046 @whatthehey4046 1 year ago (edited) 16:30네이피어가 체계적으로 소수점이용하기 시작 . 유럽에 퍼지게 된계기. 상용로그 이후 더 퍼져서 1650년경 보편화. 26:13 미적분전야상황 Reply @elamvaluthis7268 @elamvaluthis7268 2 years ago Mathematics knowledge went to Arab from India then went to Europe.Fractions 1/2, 1/4 ,1/8 1/16,is there in tamilnadu from time immemorial.They are called half/pathy 1/2 quarter /kal,1/4 ,veesam 1/8and so on. 1 Reply 2 replies @youtubearchive3668 @youtubearchive3668 4 years ago Well this class was worth my pound of flesh 😂😂😂 1 Reply @otakurocklee @otakurocklee 7 years ago Euler... perhaps the greatest of the 18th century... but Lagrange should also be mentioned as a contender shouldn't he? I always hear Euler mentioned with regards to the 18th century... rarely Lagrange. Don't understand why. 12 Reply 4 replies @singhuty @singhuty 10 months ago #Zero (Base of MATHEMATICS) & #Vedic_Mathematics had been developed & designed in #INDIA about thousands of years ago when #European were #nomadic...🇮🇳 1 Reply @TheDavidlloydjones @TheDavidlloydjones 6 years ago (edited) "There's two ways of doing anything, the smart way and the dumb way. When you do it the smart was, that's mathematics." --Anonymous Lexington, Mass., grade-school kid, in MIT AI Lab play-skool program. 2 Reply @gabrielalon7609 @gabrielalon7609 4 years ago finally logarithms make sense Reply @m1schlem @m1schlem 1 year ago Tobias Dantzig created the joke in the 1930s that the german merchant in the the late middle ages could learn division and multiplication only in Italy, but its dark legend without evidence. True is, that world leading teutonic astronomers like Regiomontanus had contact with less eminent italians mathematicans. Reply @tombombadyl4535 @tombombadyl4535 1 year ago I would question whether the “bit” is even a mathematical idea. It’s a code. Reply @PatrickOSullivanAUS @PatrickOSullivanAUS 5 years ago Pity about the sound quality, fascinating though. 5 Reply 1 reply @KresimirYT @KresimirYT 3 years ago There are many incorrect things in this video. 2:58 Egyptians knew the concept of mathematical proof. They proved things like the result of division by multiplication, etc... They had tables of doubling fractions (which was not trivial in the way they notated fractions) and each entry in the table had a separate proof. (see Rhind papyrus) 5:20 Is giving off the impression that there was no advancement in geometry from the time of Euclid to the time of non-Euclidean geometry. This is simply not the case. Greeks had no idea of the proof of the impossibility of trisecting an angle, or the impossibility of squaring the circle. The only regular polygons with odd number of sides that Greeks knew how to construct were triangle, pentagon and pentadecagon. They had no idea whether one can construct a heptagon or decagon, let alone the famous 17-gon. The list goes on and on. A lot of that stuff is learnt in high school... 6:40 Euclid's Elements has not been in print for 2400 years, what a ridiculous thing to say. The printing press did not exist for that long. Euclid's Elements was first printed in 1482. 8:40 The myth of "dark ages". How untrue... Between 400 and 1200 we have Boethius and Fibonacci, for example. Etc... Very imprecise for a mathematician... 2 Reply 1 reply @michelledatey @michelledatey 6 months ago (edited) At 3:33 I wonder if someone says.. "and that is how it is still taught today!" 😂 Reply @alve434 @alve434 6 years ago i love teachers. theyre so awake! Reply @markth1444 @markth1444 5 years ago Awesome that's all there is to say 1 Reply @forefatherofmankind3305 @forefatherofmankind3305 2 years ago Sadly missed too much on Indian & Chinese mathematics. His lecture is good, engaging but still Euro-centric. 1 Reply 1 reply @abhimankher8594 @abhimankher8594 1 year ago This should be called a brief history of european mathematics 1 Reply 1 reply @ajaynayar77 @ajaynayar77 5 years ago Very Interesting! Reply @CraigPendlebury @CraigPendlebury 6 years ago My this was a fascinating talk Reply @sanjchiro @sanjchiro 5 years ago The amazing constructions of the ancient Egyptian Pyramids clearly demonstrate an advanced state of mathematics however either that knowledge was 'lost', destroyed or maybe never was written down limits what 'proof' we can find today. Only the stones survive 1 Reply @roberttatum2826 @roberttatum2826 4 years ago perfect!! Reply @nyrtzi @nyrtzi 3 years ago Not this "Dark Ages" myth again. I guess the historians actually studying Medieval mathematics still haven't been able to popularize their findings properly. Other historians who looked into the "but all Medieval Europeans believed the Earth to be flat" myth other similar modern myths have mostly stomped it out from popular culture and scholarly thinking but it took 50 years since the end of the 1920s for them to get to a start and they're still working on it. Reply @formerlypie8781 @formerlypie8781 5 years ago Is there a link to that seminar on infinity? Reply @chordsequencer001 @chordsequencer001 8 years ago There could very well be Universes where the shortest distance between to points is a squiggly line. 1 Reply 2 replies @srinivasa790 @srinivasa790 7 years ago I would like to suggest the title of this Lecture to be changed to" History of Mathematics In EUROPE" rather than History of Mathematics by itself. It clearly indicates the biased western view point of History. I am shocked to see this lecture in this modern times with least prominence to any other cultures and Civilizations that have under went advancements during the whole course of time until now. I really wonder how the History has been twisted and focused. During the hay time of 16th, 17th, 18th and the beginning of 19th century one should not forget the European History of Invasions and Colonization within Europe and rest of the world at that time period. It is evident that during this part of European History there has been several conflicts, Racism, fights for supremacy, inventions and discoveries with false claims. Nevertheless I am not denying some of the facts presented within the whole lecture. I see that he doesn't even bother of R&D into the facts what actually had happened in History of WORLD Mathematics. The civilizations like in India and China have advanced their Mathematics far beyond before Europe started or got introduced to the Hindu Numbers where they are still stuck at Roman number system during that time. It is known that all the modern day numbers are from India. The Number '0' is invented by a Great Astrologer called Arayabahta from India in the History. And there are several great scholars which makes a long list who applied maths and advanced its applications and developed arts & architecture which eventually lead to transformations and developments of Maths into different forms. Forget about the ancients History, look at the facts in the recent History, who can forget The Extraordinary Mathematics Genius Srinivasa Ramanujan from India in the late 1900's. He is termed as the Man who knew Infinity and he is into Royal Fellow Society in England from Cambridge. He had published and derived great equations,formulas and an advanced Mock theta Functions what he called them so, are so amazing and highly advanced that even the present day Mathematicians cant even get close to it. Only in 2012 nearly after 100 years of his work they are able to see and recognize his advanced publications. I really pity that his works are aimed at next level advancements in Mathematics that nobody had imagined and is not at least mentioned in the above lecture. Its pity that he is in the shadow of British colonization in India . I hope the day is not far that the World recognizes his contributions to the world of Mathematics and Human advancements. 2 Reply 7 replies @AJoe-ze6go @AJoe-ze6go 7 years ago Very good. Reply @alastairbateman6365 @alastairbateman6365 6 years ago Nice presentation & I like his style. However MY LIFE experiences are at odds with his statement that Euclid does not equal to truth. Is he saying that the Pythagoras theorem, the most important one in all of mathematics is WRONG because it is confirmation of the validity of parallel lines in Euclidean space. In all my tinkerings with maths over a life time I have never ben tripped up by 'hyperbolic parallels' which might have reality in his tinkerings but not in the real world. Reply 7 replies @UmutEser @UmutEser 6 years ago Small fix: At 10:18 Algebra comes from al-Jabir, not al-Khwarizmi Algorithm comes from al-Khwarizmi, though. 5 Reply 8 replies @ishavasya @ishavasya 4 years ago (edited) If you are talking about history of mathematics, then you must properly study history. And study history with curiosity, without prejudice. If you had done that, you would have mentioned what Indian mathematicians were doing. One who knows history and sees the millennium from a distance, he can only but laugh. How the narrative has changed. People who couldn't fix a calendar properly are claiming to have discovered nearly everything in mathematics. This only serves them, not mathematics. 1 Reply @joeruf6526 @joeruf6526 6 years ago Interesting but why does everyone always forget the very necessary monks in stories about the history of math (and science)? Reply 1 reply @Moronvideos1940 @Moronvideos1940 6 years ago I downloaded this Thank you. 2 Reply @NiftyFingers @NiftyFingers 5 years ago 50:42 to 51:20 "You can't prove any system is consistent. Godel proved that." In which system did he prove that? Reply 1 reply @altafhiltani7824 @altafhiltani7824 3 years ago (edited) With all due respect to every mathematicians from across the world, one of many scientific proofs that Indian mathematics is the oldest - https://youtu.be/bQNhQ7wxOvA ... note- this link is not about “shunya” or zero , neither about the math of infinity , its more advanced than that and more than 15000 years old! 1 Reply @rr-jp7kg @rr-jp7kg 2 years ago (edited) Did the ancient Greeks use Roman numeral system or the Arabic numeral system or the Hindu numeral system in their mathematics? Did the Arabs translate works of the Hindu mathematicians or Greek mathematicians? Reply @malavv1 @malavv1 5 years ago If manuscripts found in Middle East and Sahel haven't been fully examined, we can't assume 20th century Maths have contributed more than the 5,000 years before it. Moreover it's harder to conceive a concept than to improve on it. Reply @jyothinageswarao4556 @jyothinageswarao4556 2 years ago Sir good video sir 1 Reply @MichaelKingsfordGray @MichaelKingsfordGray 4 months ago The whole of this video relies on at least two assumptions: Euclidean flat geometry, (which is impossible in any universe with gravity), and that "numbers" are "things", which they are NOT! Numbers are verbs. Reply @manboc7541 @manboc7541 2 years ago Great one Reply @sethfox820 @sethfox820 8 years ago or 25 minutes if you set it to double speed 1 Reply @IamGrimalkin @IamGrimalkin 8 years ago I found rather odd the amount of time in this lecture dedicated to mathematical notation. If you were doing a lecture in the history of science, you wouldn't spend that amount of time talking about SI units or whatever. That said, this lecture is still excellent. Reply 4 replies @33bockbock @33bockbock 3 years ago thank you ! Reply @becreativeitsfree @becreativeitsfree 8 years ago Thanks Greece for your Mathematics! Reply @Fransamsterdam @Fransamsterdam 7 years ago Good content. Enough names to check for some videos about the mentioned people. Reply @peanut12345 @peanut12345 4 years ago It's still Unicorns and Fairies are valid math axioms. Reply @vdamjanovski @vdamjanovski 2 years ago Great lecture, but i would like to challenge the deductive reasoning of the presenter: How come you refer to Greece 600 B.C, when there was no country with such a name at that time? Greece became what we know it as Greece only in 1830-es. The Helens had city states, such as Athens, Sparta, ... Using the same deduction reasoning, this time correctly, we are not calling the Romans - Italians, as there was no Italy then. Reply 1 reply @roelwieers4566 @roelwieers4566 1 year ago A Brief History of Mathematics without even mentioning Euler ? Reply @gtanj @gtanj 8 years ago nice timelines? . India knew everything in Mathematics since time immemorial. Due to political upheavals, things were lost and then quickly rediscovered. Plenty of youtube documentaries on that too. Some people wonder how it is connected to "religion" but as a matter of fact the number system was given by some Indian monks. Some of them are mathematicians of the highest order. Unfortunately, very few Indians know about it. 9 Reply 13 replies @koteswararaoatluri1492 @koteswararaoatluri1492 1 year ago 5000years include Indian contributions also Reply @tareknagla3141 @tareknagla3141 7 years ago EXCELLENT 5 Reply @Nissin30 @Nissin30 8 years ago muito intrutivo Reply @RasperHelpdesk @RasperHelpdesk 5 years ago The called in the Dark Ages for a reason. Just think of where we might be if that hadn't sucked out centuries of scientific advancement. Reply @Pooua @Pooua 5 years ago I didn't see anything about catastrophic electrical damage. Also, the sound is muffled, and some of the words are not easy to hear. Reply @chordsequencer001 @chordsequencer001 8 years ago One way we still apply the sexagesimal system is that quantity of angular measure between 0 and 180 we term "degrees". Reply @rrar23 @rrar23 3 years ago Indians found the number system. Zero. Four fundamental operations, solving the quadratic, many indeterminate equations, discovered negative numbers, indeterminate equations kuttaka method, infinite series of kerala school.. Reply @ivangohome @ivangohome 2 years ago Plato mentioned that most of knowledge came from times before them and mentioned Atlantis... Reply @milonmitra3584 @milonmitra3584 2 months ago Indus valley civilization was 2500 BC and there are evidence of mathematics at that time. Reply @ganeshwardurvasula9446 @ganeshwardurvasula9446 7 years ago good video Reply @tpenkethman @tpenkethman 8 years ago You stated that you don't think that Newton was the greatest mathematician of all time, but you never tell us who you consider to be the greatest. Who would you consider for the top spot? Reply 1 reply @rareword @rareword 3 years ago The Indus Valley Civilization is at least 8,000 years old 3 Reply 1 reply @dreia2405 @dreia2405 6 years ago (edited) where did this lecture take place? Reply @frensoshaker4884 @frensoshaker4884 6 years ago what about Arabs huge contributions in maths .... differentiation integrals algebra 1st order 2nd order 3rd order equ. etc Reply @sosassteelstrings9623 @sosassteelstrings9623 3 years ago I like how there was the one girl who always laughed at his jokes 18 Reply 3 replies @ryanchiang9587 @ryanchiang9587 5 years ago history of mathematics: R^c 1`k... 1 + 1 = ... advanced calculus... mathematics...Mathematics 1 Reply @geraldwellborn5047 @geraldwellborn5047 1 year ago Interesting subject, but tough to listen to due to very poor audio recording. Reply @mindaugascechanavicius8892 @mindaugascechanavicius8892 3 years ago Thank you Reply @lionelbousfield5659 @lionelbousfield5659 3 years ago Matrices and Quaternions ? Reply @monkeymayhem1977 @monkeymayhem1977 4 years ago (edited) India --> Arabs --> Greeks, not the other way around; Al Jabr was actually copied from the Hindus, as were the numerals, as was geometry. Al Khwarizmi gives credit to the Hindus, later they simply left out that detail for some ridiculous reason. 1 Reply @jerometaperman7102 @jerometaperman7102 2 years ago He never mentioned Ramanujan. 1 Reply @monkeymayhem1977 @monkeymayhem1977 4 years ago Fibonacci numbers are in fact Hemachandra numbers 7 Reply 2 replies @rkarim28 @rkarim28 5 years ago I watched the whole thing in one go and I think I have A.D.D 1 Reply @leemaples1806 @leemaples1806 5 years ago The audio quality of the video is not very good. Just needs the be E.Q.`d a little to be more natural sounding. Easy fix really. 1 Reply @richardwatson5437 @richardwatson5437 6 years ago Can someone explain the title and description of this video: Catastrophic Electrical Damage took place - let’s check the Math to see why!? Am I missing something? Reply 1 reply @verycoolgun3847 @verycoolgun3847 3 months ago thank you Reply @mareklakomski2256 @mareklakomski2256 3 months ago before Egypt there was Sumer and sumerian mathematics. Sumer 5000 BCE. Reply @UnitedPebbles @UnitedPebbles 5 years ago I can do a whole piece of paper on the pyramid and the mathematics involved? it is investigative? Reply @automedoniliad3269 @automedoniliad3269 5 months ago Lol he mentioned the token hypatia Reply @sulagnachoudhury9922 @sulagnachoudhury9922 3 years ago Where is Srinivasa Ramanujan? Without him history of mathematics is incomplete This is an incomplete video Worthless 3 Reply 1 reply @deserado11 @deserado11 8 years ago ... most engaging ... Reply @somnathsaha7391 @somnathsaha7391 1 year ago 🙂 Reply @ishtiaqfarooq3273 @ishtiaqfarooq3273 7 years ago What is the basis of second(time pause)? Reply 3 replies @JamesJoyceJazz @JamesJoyceJazz 8 months ago (edited) great video though the sound of grass growing outside my window made it difficult to hear his voice (I live on the second storey) Reply @vinzzz666 @vinzzz666 6 years ago And what about Euler?! 1 Reply @BRDRDRDAT @BRDRDRDAT 2 years ago Didnt mention Grothendiek 🤦‍♂️ Reply @josephdouglas5977 @josephdouglas5977 6 years ago I had no interest in maths before watching this video. 4 Reply 1 reply @shahrzadtalebi6951 @shahrzadtalebi6951 1 month ago thanks but it was too brief ... Reply @nurlatifahmohdnor8939 @nurlatifahmohdnor8939 1 year ago Grant's Atlas of Anatomy Twelfth Edition M. R. A., Anne F. D., Arthur Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Reply @TacomaPaul @TacomaPaul 6 years ago I haven't smoked pot for 8 years... but for me to even remotely understand this maybe I should try some of those new strains. Reply @TerryFerrellmathematics @TerryFerrellmathematics 7 years ago Well math is not boring!!! I am sorry you feel that way "Pill Box." Reply @estetikayakkab2948 @estetikayakkab2948 4 years ago Thx god finally a math video with non-hindu accent 1 Reply @nosnibor800 @nosnibor800 3 years ago No mention of Bertrand Russel 2 Reply @tokajileo5928 @tokajileo5928 5 years ago nothing about the mezoamerican math like the maya? Reply @Moronvideos1940 @Moronvideos1940 6 years ago Audio is lower than the ocean floor 26 Reply @ishtiaqfarooq3273 @ishtiaqfarooq3273 7 years ago Was Leap year there ever since? Reply @xxx4651 @xxx4651 8 years ago Inspring Reply @thedroid3101 @thedroid3101 6 years ago nice guy 1 Reply @TheFatcriminal @TheFatcriminal 9 years ago who said 'lets have 360degrees in a circle'? thats all i want to know, why is it considered to be 360 degrees in a circle? does anyone have any insight? thank you Reply 25 replies @alanwang4700 @alanwang4700 4 years ago Good practice for my alpha theya Reply @xyphenius9942 @xyphenius9942 4 years ago 53:24 which book is his favourite?? I can't see what he's pointing at!!! 1 Reply @tauceti8341 @tauceti8341 2 years ago noooo dude Archimes 3rd b.c. cakculus ideas This is more existential crisis then alexiandira. omggggg I'm panicked bruh 1 Reply @africanexplorermagazine @africanexplorermagazine 9 years ago I like the way people fight over religious Facts... - Am halfway through ( 17:32 ) when I notice religious comments on this video and am Like WTF are those doing here? 10 Reply 5 replies @derrazkhalid @derrazkhalid 5 years ago (edited) Modern math origins from north africa and andalucia...stolen by force and massacres and all original books burned by the churche of hate and lied for for centuries as europe has a complex of its own history as the comments section show. (btw not only math but also music system, music, mapping of the world, navigation, architecture, ....). Reply @Stringbean421 @Stringbean421 4 years ago My volume is 100% and still low. Reply @KnowledgeXpress @KnowledgeXpress 3 years ago (edited) Not even close, skipped large parts of Chinese and Indian mathematics. 1 Reply @tharanathakula3588 @tharanathakula3588 1 year ago you have left out Frege and Bertrand Russell is strange. Reply @illcelebrateyoursuccess8907 @illcelebrateyoursuccess8907 7 years ago hey can someone simplify math? can u break it down and make it to where a babe can comprehend it? can you make it fun? I have a difficult time with basic math and Its due to it sounded so freaking complicated. if not I understand. THAT I understand. lol Reply 1 reply @billyfatkid @billyfatkid 6 years ago who taught us how to count? Reply @chotynill @chotynill 7 years ago Thanks Reply @Airwave2k2 @Airwave2k2 10 years ago From a Standpoint of history he tells many things, but not allways the truth and he did not get the connection. Also he failed very much about his golden age periode of islam. Reply @illeone5433 @illeone5433 5 years ago How can I get to the point? Reply @GrimJerr @GrimJerr 1 year ago You have the Sumerians After ? the Egyptians ? There is something wrong with your math. Reply @elijahperez1116 @elijahperez1116 7 years ago pi is 3.1415 not 3.1416 Reply 1 reply @henrytjernlund @henrytjernlund 5 years ago No mention of any women? Emmy Noether? No wonder math was so slow to develop. Let's not make that mistake ever again. 1 Reply @nessieness5433 @nessieness5433 1 year ago The speaker has to improve the volume of his speech, he lowers the volume toward the end of a sentence and then becomes almost inaudible. This is called telescoping and it is annoying for listeners. Reply @ironheadrondo5596 @ironheadrondo5596 1 year ago ~ 27:30 so "calculus" is analysis? Reply 1 reply @daviddemar8749 @daviddemar8749 6 years ago Typo-It's Prof. KEITH Devlin Reply @conanbrooks5338 @conanbrooks5338 1 year ago What did the “heckler” say in the beginning. Reply @islam9.0 @islam9.0 1 year ago Islam complements other religions, as it is mentioned in the Torah and the Injeel that there will come a messenger whose name will be Ahmad and the nation of Muhammad that God favored over many of those before them because they obey God and enjoin good and forbid evil. Among the good qualities of Islam are the enjoining good and forbidding evil, benevolence to the offender, supplicating for him with guidance and good manners, turning a blind eye to what is forbidden, preserving chastity, living a lasting heartfelt happiness that is found only in Islam, avoiding vices, loving goodness for all people, and pardoning the oppressor who repented and not oppressing people or Eating the rights of others.. Advice for you. Enter Islam. Just try and read the Qur’an Reply @henrychoy2764 @henrychoy2764 2 years ago 50 cent. right Reply @carlsagan3065 @carlsagan3065 6 years ago Is that Jim Carrey's brother? Reply @emmanuelmwape4560 @emmanuelmwape4560 1 year ago (edited) I don't agree with most of the timeline given here. How can Geometry have began after the Pyramids. How where pyramids bult if there was no knowledge of geometry. How did ancient Africans navigate the sky?. Where did the Greeks get their wisdom, considering that their civilization is much younger than that of Kushi or Egypt? Or what is he really trying to say here to the audience Reply @andychin5985 @andychin5985 9 years ago beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth and all that ye need to know Reply @p1nesap @p1nesap 5 years ago 35:25 cool Reply @ishtiaqfarooq3273 @ishtiaqfarooq3273 7 years ago Why does a minute have 60 seconds? Reply 4 replies @alittlebyte @alittlebyte 4 years ago that's Tom Hardy lol Reply @Pe3Dee @Pe3Dee 9 years ago this weird guy there talking in this video. he said "... was the greatest mathematician, ever" at least 2 times. (i dont want to hear more from that point) i wonder how he got this position to talk about mathematics to young students, who usually suck up anything they hear without understanding and questioning it, if he himself even don't understand the difference between 1 and 2. Reply 1 reply @I2obiNtube @I2obiNtube 6 years ago Paciloli not Paciloi Reply @nevokrien95 @nevokrien95 6 years ago whey don't you pronouns א0 as alaf afas as this is how it sounds in hebrew Reply @Sebastian37s @Sebastian37s 8 years ago Please, help me to understand this, I'm not native: In 3:32 the girl in the back say: That's not mathematics, isn't it? What does the teacher reply? "There is a HACKLER in every crowd", I got this but, Isn't Hackler offensive???? 3 Reply 6 replies @kurtsalm2155 @kurtsalm2155 2 months ago How about a do-over on the audio. It sucks. Reply @NiftyFingers @NiftyFingers 4 years ago 52:26 "Claude Shannon is native - he was born in Gaylord". 4 Reply @No-rl4xx @No-rl4xx 7 years ago Boom × Nigga = 20. 76 = 1, 2, & 13, = 15 ,10, & 3 = 27 - 7 = 20. 20/20 1 Reply 3 replies @GunsAtRent @GunsAtRent 2 months ago (edited) The professors is wrong on some dates and citations Reply @pdee9802 @pdee9802 5 years ago There can be no discussion of Mathematics without mentioning the Bakshail Manuscript and the preceding knowledge. This is just to start with, there numerous other numerous other manuscripts in the Vedas and related texts that expouses previous studies in Mathematics and Astronomy. This lecture is incomplete and lacks substance in the absence of history 1 Reply @escapefelicity2913 @escapefelicity2913 5 years ago fix your audio 1 Reply @philv2529 @philv2529 9 years ago the sound on this sucks 1 Reply @dacianbonta2840 @dacianbonta2840 5 years ago @8:45, to see a distinguished intellectual like Professor Dersch regurgitate the "Renaissance"-"Illuminist" smear against the Medieval Period is highly disappointing. Reply @benquinneyiii7941 @benquinneyiii7941 3 weeks ago Pure d Reply @adamfreilich2741 @adamfreilich2741 9 years ago what did the heckler say at 3:30? 1 Reply 1 reply @azurbleu4335 @azurbleu4335 6 years ago Fibonacci just copied & pasted what he found in Algeria 5 Reply @TlogicoP @TlogicoP 6 years ago (edited) You repeat the "Dark Age" myth with such confidence. This has not been acceptable history now for over 50 years. In fact, most of your "history" is whiggish. Reply 2 replies @A7medKhairy @A7medKhairy 7 years ago didn't hear the name of Laplace 1 Reply 1 reply @otomackena7610 @otomackena7610 5 years ago (edited) Totally ignorant video. Title should be 'a brief history of Europe's Mathematics' 2 Reply @yassinzao9790 @yassinzao9790 6 years ago he talking about algorithm but not mentioning the creator of it _ Alkhawarizmy...so sad this westerners!!!! Reply 13 replies @soundariitd1332 @soundariitd1332 1 year ago Ignorance of contribution by India and China shows... Misleading and poor presentation 1 Reply @AlsteinLe @AlsteinLe 7 years ago lol line at 26:00 didn't match Reply @aurelstrat1829 @aurelstrat1829 5 years ago ALWAYS on concluding REMARKS it is WHISPERING!: VERY BAD HABIT! Reply @Vinaykumar-ob8pt @Vinaykumar-ob8pt 7 years ago You left Hamilton! 1 Reply 2 replies @gaussianvector2093 @gaussianvector2093 1 year ago Missed Noether Reply @hengfun @hengfun 2 years ago Forgot Turing Reply @koneth21 @koneth21 7 years ago Greek spirit enslaved or conquered = dark ages and islam Greek spirit free = Sciences, arts, humanity blossom 24 Reply 4 replies @mna5626 @mna5626 4 years ago Speaker I will urge you to listen to Prof CK Raju Reply @salmansiddiqui4646 @salmansiddiqui4646 6 years ago again islam brought the numerical and modern mathematics 13 Reply 29 replies @legolad444 @legolad444 7 years ago What did the heckler 3:29 say lol? Reply 2 replies @MrDarksly3r @MrDarksly3r 3 years ago Haha again some left propaganda to hide the fact of Indian origin of mathematics. Or may be he didn't know like many many of us. 1 Reply @desalineredux435 @desalineredux435 6 years ago Oh we know who and approx when. Lol 1 Reply @alinajib4788 @alinajib4788 4 years ago there's a place called gaylord? lmao Reply @ouldasahra2533 @ouldasahra2533 7 years ago I think you ignored the "arabs mathematics" or you just replaced it with "middle east". We still using the arabs number which are "0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9" words like algebra, algorithm etc are all in Arabic. We still addind from right to the left which is Arabic (exp. 123 + 22, we have to add 3+2 and 2+2 and 1+0 which is from the right to the left to get 143). ok professor? :-) 3 Reply 10 replies @anon8109 @anon8109 5 years ago Turing > Shannon Reply @benquinneyiii7941 @benquinneyiii7941 3 weeks ago How to think Reply @admin8446 @admin8446 5 years ago Very dated. To the point of being just plain wrong. Reply @picosdrivethru @picosdrivethru 4 years ago TURINGG :) Reply @burnsloads @burnsloads 5 years ago Leibniz. Reply @KnowledgeXpress @KnowledgeXpress 3 years ago Stupid comment alert: 3:34 Such a lack of imagination 2 Reply @porusjetli9823 @porusjetli9823 7 years ago Ah yes You talk pf Archemedes and the greeks . They were al geometrical mathemticians. . The real genius of mathematics are Aryabhatta, Bramagupta and Madhava, but none of thwm were Europeans so why bother 3 Reply 2 replies @lacuevadelvampiro @lacuevadelvampiro 5 years ago war... Reply @jsanch855 @jsanch855 5 years ago October 29 33:00 Reply @mravidr @mravidr 6 years ago Entire account is wrong and biased and the speaker is totally oblivious to Vedic Mathematics which was before Indus Valley civilization 2500 BC before, so around 5500 BC. 3 Reply 1 reply @MrBhaskararao1940 @MrBhaskararao1940 8 years ago It looks hehas no knowledge of ancient India or China.origination of calculus, algebra, expanion of no.sTrigonometry and concept of zero and mm imfinity no knowledge 13 Reply 2 replies @mbestm535 @mbestm535 3 years ago Biased lecturer, ignored major contribution to trigonometry, algebra, algorithm,.... Persians... Reply 1 reply @alisharif5587 @alisharif5587 5 years ago ch Reply @riffraff8020 @riffraff8020 2 years ago CHRONOLOGY & DATING IS WRONG Reply @RubenHogenhout @RubenHogenhout 8 years ago To me this is very boring. 2 Reply 10 replies @Stalley75 @Stalley75 8 years ago This is a very boring topic. Math is boring, history is more boring, and math history is the most boring topic in the history of education. Reply 4 replies @riffraff8020 @riffraff8020 2 years ago BIASSED DOC. BULL SHIT WESTERN PROPAGANDA Reply