A (very) Brief History of Bernhard Riemann

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  • In this episode, I run through the life of Bernhard Riemann. Sadly, he only lived to about 40 years old, unlike Gauss or Euler. Had he lived longer, who knows how much the mathematical boundaries could've been pushed!
    Apologies ahead of time for my poor accents when trying to pronounce names. My French pronunciation needs work...
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  • @erawanpencil
    @erawanpencil ปีที่แล้ว +27

    It's crazy seeing that PAINTED portrait of Gauss next to the PHOTO of Riemann, and to hear that his advisor was Gauss. He's like a bridge from the medieval world to the modern. Riemann's non-Euclidian geometry seems like something from a more ancient, simpler, fundamental time, despite the fact that it's used in relativity and QM. Despite its validity, we all still think and feel very Euclidianly. I like to think that as industrialization, determinism, machination, etc was sweeping across the world, people like Riemann maybe kept touch with more medieval or ancient intuitions about the fluidity and wholeness of reality.

    • @edidiongedemeka2096
      @edidiongedemeka2096 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I had no idea they lived in the same time period, much less him being his doctorate advisor, it really puts into perspective how some things in the past are really not as far back as they seem

  • @gurk_the_magnificent9008
    @gurk_the_magnificent9008 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Today I learned it took almost two centuries of active usage for someone to get around to rigorously defining the integral

  • @helicopterpeace7434
    @helicopterpeace7434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I am very grateful that you have put these biographies together. I love mathematicians of that era...

  • @iridium8562
    @iridium8562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I thought I’m watching some famous math channel that I didn’t know about, your videos are underrated!

  • @natepolidoro4565
    @natepolidoro4565 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    That moment when your PhD advisor is Gauss.

  • @elrisitas8508
    @elrisitas8508 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    such a good video, my favorite mathematician probably too all his work was amazing

    • @pursuitofknowledge6119
      @pursuitofknowledge6119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Favorite mathematician? Why would you pick favorites in such a noble field? This isn’t sports

    • @elrisitas8508
      @elrisitas8508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@pursuitofknowledge6119 sorry for breathing

    • @pursuitofknowledge6119
      @pursuitofknowledge6119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was joking

    • @elrisitas8508
      @elrisitas8508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pursuitofknowledge6119 ok

    • @pursuitofknowledge6119
      @pursuitofknowledge6119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@elrisitas8508 it’s all good, mine is either Leibniz or Ramanujan

  • @ryans7536
    @ryans7536 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for making these videos!!

  • @mohanace2533
    @mohanace2533 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing.Thank you very much and keep on doing videos about other great mathematicians.

  • @edidiongedemeka2096
    @edidiongedemeka2096 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for these much needed video biographies man

  • @Prisha.Mathur
    @Prisha.Mathur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for such a wonderful description.

  • @nfrancab373
    @nfrancab373 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Great stuff ma man keep it up!

  • @Abhijeetetrx
    @Abhijeetetrx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great stuff. I hope your channel grows

  • @shuki546
    @shuki546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is wonderful content hope that you continue to make videos such as this, you are doing wonderful work. Although I would love to see some citations in future videos so I can dig in a bit further.

    • @moderndaymath
      @moderndaymath  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The great majority was compiled together from the following:
      www.famousscientists.org/bernhard-riemann/
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Riemann
      mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Riemann.html
      I'll make more comprehensive citations for my future videos, as often time, they don venture out from just three links. :)

  • @tftmehdi
    @tftmehdi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for making these videos about these geniuses.

  • @James-bv4nu
    @James-bv4nu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gauss, Riemann, Dedekind, Hilbert, ... giants in mathematics.
    Goes to show what you can accomplish if you put your mind to it, and not waste time watching tv.

  • @RSLT
    @RSLT ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A great short biography! Very informative! thank you very much!

  • @nowhereman8564
    @nowhereman8564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Berlin eine stadt eine gesellschaft, translating a city of knowledge, he was the first to talk about curved space and he said that we might are living in curved space and einstein added space time without gauss and Riemann we would have had lost 200 years of knowledge.
    Thanks Riemann.
    By these geniuses we should remember the germans not wars

  • @ozymandias1400
    @ozymandias1400 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The way you pronounce Legendre at 3:05 ist crazy 💀

  • @swann8142
    @swann8142 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Superb video ! Thank you !

  • @artherladett442
    @artherladett442 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a great service thank you

  • @tubalcain1039
    @tubalcain1039 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was nearly born in Hemer, Germany a long time ago. I have written some General Relativity papers. After all this time, I found out that Gottingen is only about a two hour drive from Hemer!

  • @abdhulmiya5409
    @abdhulmiya5409 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i loved background music

  • @eliaperli2485
    @eliaperli2485 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very cool video! Thanks!!

  • @MathPhysicsEngineering
    @MathPhysicsEngineering 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My favorite mathematician by far!

  • @Hei102
    @Hei102 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice video !

  • @MUFFINHEAD1985
    @MUFFINHEAD1985 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have no clue about maths but this is like a Darth/Jedi channel. Thank you.

  • @martentrudeau6948
    @martentrudeau6948 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Riemann was great, which I didn't about until this video. He should be remembered well.

  • @Explainmerandom
    @Explainmerandom 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    fantastic, thankyou

  • @MrDsalomon
    @MrDsalomon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    An excellent biography. It's just a pity that the foreign names are pronounced in English, which makes it hard to recognize them. In 9:52 it should be "in 1859, when Dirichlet died..."

  • @weylguy
    @weylguy 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for this video. If Riemann had lived, he would probably have discovered general relativity and eclipsed Einstein. Like Mozart, all I can say is what a damn shame he died so young.

  • @HeckaS
    @HeckaS 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well done.

  • @IDrinkandKnowThings
    @IDrinkandKnowThings 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for the presentation on my cousin Bernie.

  • @juandiegoparales9379
    @juandiegoparales9379 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you very much dude

  • @rainerausdemspring3584
    @rainerausdemspring3584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You might also have mentioned the Riemann mapping theorem.
    "Riemann" has the stress on the first syllable.

    • @lucasgroves137
      @lucasgroves137 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol, one down, all the other names to go.

  • @isakhammer6558
    @isakhammer6558 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hilarious the way you pronounce Legendre at 2:59, and it is probably the correct way too

  • @xyzct
    @xyzct 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These biographies are great. People I know wonder if I'm a moron. These videos remove all uncertainty.

  • @lasnybrat8978
    @lasnybrat8978 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Guass and Riemann my two favorite matematicians

  • @wargreymon2024
    @wargreymon2024 ปีที่แล้ว

    He is one of my fav.

  • @doodelay
    @doodelay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i'm subbing for more docs on STEM intellectuals, especially of the greats that aren't exactly house hold names (Like Riemann)

  • @JuanRodriguez-tr6st
    @JuanRodriguez-tr6st 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you

    • @JuanRodriguez-tr6st
      @JuanRodriguez-tr6st 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Such a great man, looking forward to more of your videos.

  • @francescaemc2
    @francescaemc2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is excellent. I am subscribed. IMO, the music is very distracting. Would you want a music vid with background maths? ;)

    • @yoavmal
      @yoavmal 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I actually absolutely enjoyed the music! Perhaps i'm biased as a fan of Rachmaninoff's music, but it felt just in place. Not too invasive, yet not hidden nor shy.

  • @RaymundoHB
    @RaymundoHB ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good

  • @smarajitpunaykanti6463
    @smarajitpunaykanti6463 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Perhaps in 19 th century Post graduation of two years was not there that's why many completed PhD at a very young age .

  • @molaganthe4090
    @molaganthe4090 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    bravo

  • @gogigaga1677
    @gogigaga1677 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do one on Galois and Andre Weil

  • @metalstereumdawdye6914
    @metalstereumdawdye6914 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love mathematics, it’s the way to liberation!

  • @SquirrelASMR
    @SquirrelASMR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    His glasses are crooked

  • @AkashSalunkhe123
    @AkashSalunkhe123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Has Riemann also discovered the fourth dimension space theory ...?

    • @moderndaymath
      @moderndaymath  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He didn't discover it, per se, but he did give it a firm footing (n-dimensions, in particular). Lagrange appears to be the first to write about it, though, which was late-1700s.

  • @AB-et6nj
    @AB-et6nj 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He died 39 years old.

  • @robertkrohn9385
    @robertkrohn9385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Those pronunciations are off, but good content

  • @ragibshahriar187
    @ragibshahriar187 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good video! Subscribing, keep it up please.

  • @DrRyanHooker
    @DrRyanHooker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:00
    Pardon? Dude, my last name is Hooker and I took a double take

  • @argyllthomson6429
    @argyllthomson6429 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the name of the background music?

    • @moderndaymath
      @moderndaymath  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The piece is Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 2. Mvt. 3

    • @lukealadeen7836
      @lukealadeen7836 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@moderndaymath it goes well with the documentary

  • @pritysagar7042
    @pritysagar7042 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maths is my Favourite subject

  • @practicaltheory6604
    @practicaltheory6604 ปีที่แล้ว

    Make about Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet :)

  • @vishusharma8566
    @vishusharma8566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Great stuff! Its a shame more people are watching stupid shit than learning about great mathematicians!

    • @moderndaymath
      @moderndaymath  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks, Vishu! Hopefully as I keep making videos, we'll get more people learning :)

    • @Gladiator-wy5qb
      @Gladiator-wy5qb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was about to comment the same before I saw yours 😁

  • @siddharthjain2127
    @siddharthjain2127 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Riemann hypothesis : millennium prize problem

  • @leocorral1039
    @leocorral1039 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    5:34

  • @chrissears8575
    @chrissears8575 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What’s the song? I like it…

    • @moderndaymath
      @moderndaymath  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rachmaninov - Symphony No. 2, Mvt. 3

    • @azzteke
      @azzteke 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There is nobody singing.

  • @mikev4621
    @mikev4621 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dee- reesh- lay ( Dirichlet)

  • @reason827
    @reason827 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The pre relativity.

  • @asherwade
    @asherwade 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    …it would be frightening if you had found someone to aid you in pronouncing the German names & places correctly, as I was climbing the walls, backwards; 😖

  • @pritysagar7042
    @pritysagar7042 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maths is my

  • @taorbdhilxa5321
    @taorbdhilxa5321 ปีที่แล้ว

    来一个陈景润

  • @lovaaaa2451
    @lovaaaa2451 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nice video but mate if you are going to make videos about historical figures you might want to first check how to pronounce their names...

    • @moderndaymath
      @moderndaymath  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've been working on it xD

    • @darthmath1071
      @darthmath1071 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@moderndaymath I find your pronunciation of "Legendre" kinda funny as a frenchman haha. Nice video.

    • @Maniclout
      @Maniclout 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@darthmath1071 It was so unexpected it almost made me spill my drink from laughing.

  • @chonpincher
    @chonpincher 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The pronunciation of French and German names is baffling and distracting here. All these pronunciations are given on Wikipedia and can be learned in a matter of minutes.