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  • @adriannanad4675
    @adriannanad4675 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7938

    Riemann: Makes a statement without any proof. Is widely regards in the mathematics world.
    Me: Makes a statement without any proof. Gets 0 in exam.

    • @R3lay0
      @R3lay0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +455

      This is outrageous, it's unfair!

    • @emeria9620
      @emeria9620 4 ปีที่แล้ว +474

      I, too, make statements that all the brightest minds in the world over hundreds of years cannot prove or disprove during my exam.

    • @guidichris
      @guidichris 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Fermat did it......

    • @jongyon7192p
      @jongyon7192p 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@emeria9620 I guess you could make such statements tbh. You just need to know the topics where modern math is having a hard time solving. Any statement regarding the reimann zeta function, infinities, if a convergent sum is transcendental or not, tetration and beyond, what else? smth super abstract?

    • @JaySmith-rv4ro
      @JaySmith-rv4ro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Adrian Nanad 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂

  • @monkeseeaction21987
    @monkeseeaction21987 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8479

    And the proof of the Riemann hypothesis is trivial and left to the reader as an exercise.

    • @zoedesvl4131
      @zoedesvl4131 5 ปีที่แล้ว +249

      possibly it will appear 100 years later

    • @ravitaarya
      @ravitaarya 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Possibly i will do it

    • @ethanhuyck4704
      @ethanhuyck4704 5 ปีที่แล้ว +248

      @@ravitaarya 5 bucks says u won't.

    • @ravitaarya
      @ravitaarya 4 ปีที่แล้ว +241

      @@ethanhuyck4704 I have a proof by elliptic functions, and modern algebra but that won't fit here. ;)

    • @manofmystery5191
      @manofmystery5191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      420BootyWizard I honestly wish I could believe you

  • @BTsNemesis
    @BTsNemesis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +979

    This is easily the most readable handwriting of any mathematician in the history of mathematics

    • @DeJay7
      @DeJay7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Did you watch the same video I did?
      That ζ was nothing like how it should look like.

    • @pioneer_1148
      @pioneer_1148 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      As a physics student I would like to enter our name into the ring. I think we might even be able to give doctors a run for their money.

    • @sfridisow185
      @sfridisow185 ปีที่แล้ว

      OKAY?!!

    • @niks660097
      @niks660097 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@pioneer_1148 you got nothing on advanced maths majors, even AI can't read their handwriting...

    • @falsetone5983
      @falsetone5983 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@pioneer_1148as a fellow physics student, I agree

  • @9090Glenn
    @9090Glenn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2601

    not quite true - Grigori was willing to accept the 1,000,00.00$USD prize however on condition that the award was co-awarded to another mathematician Richard S Hamilton the pioneer of the Ricci Flow whom Perelman credited with providing the basis for his own work - the committee declined to do this and instead simply withdrew the prize money denying both Perelman and his fellow mathematician Hamilton - I quote "Perelman refused to accept the Millennium prize in July 2010. He considered the decision of the Clay Institute unfair for not sharing the prize with Richard S. Hamilton and stated that "the main reason is my disagreement with the organised mathematical community. I don't like their decisions, I consider them unjust."

    • @1996Pinocchio
      @1996Pinocchio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Thank you

    • @speedsterh
      @speedsterh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +188

      Didn't know that, thanks for the clarification of this story

    • @zsolttildy5742
      @zsolttildy5742 4 ปีที่แล้ว +433

      why wouldnt he just accept it then send half of it to Hamilton?

    • @oleggladkikh951
      @oleggladkikh951 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      £~ _ €.

    • @unuuu5541
      @unuuu5541 4 ปีที่แล้ว +228

      zsolt tildy Because that will be seen as a charity rather than a prize that he deserves.

  • @elirane85
    @elirane85 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4403

    Not sure why but his Russian accent makes me understand math better.
    My all time favorite Numberphile video.

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete 6 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      eliran zach because you feel the vodka just by listening

    • @JTCF
      @JTCF 5 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      I understood that he's Russian just when heard him.
      Russians know who's Russian and who's not.

    • @senatorpoopypants7182
      @senatorpoopypants7182 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It's actually a German accent

    • @bluerinako
      @bluerinako 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      no

    • @xavemsk88
      @xavemsk88 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Me hear russian accent too. It's interesting because the man who named edward frenkel cannot be russian.

  • @PRT976
    @PRT976 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2093

    His way of explaining things is really amazing. He simplifies the things very nicely.

    • @hellotheremyolfriend
      @hellotheremyolfriend 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      mathematician's brain at work

    • @prakash_77
      @prakash_77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" - Albert Einstein

    • @kostoffj
      @kostoffj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Simply explaining the very complicated is the mark of genius

    • @ishworshrestha3559
      @ishworshrestha3559 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ok

    • @caparroz1923
      @caparroz1923 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Quanta Magazine have a wonderful video about Riemann Hypothesis. Frankly, I think it's an uncrackable problem, tbh. Physicists assume it's true and there are dozens of well established theories that are build upon it being true. It's fascinating, nonetheless.

  • @revenevan11
    @revenevan11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    8:55 I love how he answered "Da" in response to Brady's question and then corrected it to yes 😆

  • @talhatariqyuluqatdis
    @talhatariqyuluqatdis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +492

    "you can mark your favourite fractions" said like a true mathematician lol

  • @alexhoffmann9648
    @alexhoffmann9648 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2586

    8:54 "да... uh, yes"
    I love this Russian guy.

    • @maximusdizon7267
      @maximusdizon7267 7 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      Alex Hoffmann no comments? here have a comment

    • @abrahamholleran4162
      @abrahamholleran4162 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Have another comment!

    • @narcotic702
      @narcotic702 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      10 months later, I think you deserve another comment.

    • @oscityperplexity2312
      @oscityperplexity2312 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      3 weeks later you're rewarded another comment

    • @abdoufma
      @abdoufma 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Here's your comment for the week.

  • @ILykToDoDuhDrifting
    @ILykToDoDuhDrifting 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1326

    This guy is an awesome teacher.

    • @francorende4305
      @francorende4305 8 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      am I the only one who thinks all math teachers should have that accent

    • @rewrose2838
      @rewrose2838 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Ah if only people like him would become teachers~ (and not just snobs who gain pleasure from making lives of kids around town worse)

    • @RB-kr6jo
      @RB-kr6jo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      for real! never had something so clearly explained

    • @Superman37891
      @Superman37891 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ILykToDoDuhDrifting I swear. If anyone solves this problem, it will be one of his students!

  • @TheGermanLPGaming
    @TheGermanLPGaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +971

    This has been the simplest explanation of complex numbers, ever.

    • @TheVivi13
      @TheVivi13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Really? I've been introduced to complex numbers in probably like 10 different classes at this point and it's always in a similar fashion to this. Saying that we simply cannot say sqrt of -1 doesn't exist so we assign it an imaginary value which then creates a complex plane.

    • @NateROCKS112
      @NateROCKS112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@TheVivi13 however, the main reason it's a cartesian plane (i.e., one with both basis "vectors" being orthogonal) is due to a slightly deeper property about i.

    • @ypey1
      @ypey1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have heard this explanation of complex numbers many times, but they often fail to explain the benefits of not discarding the i. That keeping the i in there opens up a whole new world of possible transformations and calculations. Continuing math beyond its borders. Like Rieman was extending the zeta function beyond its borders.

    • @NateROCKS112
      @NateROCKS112 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ypey1 for most stuff, it's just a utility thing. You _could_ try to represent everything as a 2D vector, but complex numbers can be treated exactly like real numbers in most cases, so they're easier to work with, e.g., with exponentiation. For example, you could also represent negative numbers as a subtraction problem (and indeed there's a construction that does this), with a tuple of, e.g., (1, 3), but it's so much easier to just call -2 a number.
      Edit: The comparison isn't exactly the same, since vectors and complex numbers have different algebraic properties (whereas the tuple construction is a construction of the model of, say, integer arithmetic, so it has the same structure).

    • @ishworshrestha3559
      @ishworshrestha3559 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ok

  • @itisinfactpaul2868
    @itisinfactpaul2868 4 ปีที่แล้ว +730

    Fun fact: quantum computing algorithms have successfully managed to find prime numbers using a method that is only effective if the Riemann Hypothesis is correct. Of course, that's empirical evidence, not a mathematical proof, but maybe that just makes it even more interesting!

    • @rociot4690
      @rociot4690 3 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      Riemann Hipothesis’ could well be one of the unprovable statements foreseen by Gödel’s incompleteness theorem - a true statement which cannot be proved within the given set of axioms!

    • @arielfuxman8868
      @arielfuxman8868 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Is Math becoming empirical?

    • @michaelnguyen8121
      @michaelnguyen8121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Man in the world of Quantum Mechanics everything is possible. I wouldn't be surprised that in quantum mechanics may suggested that the universe is both finite and infinite at the same time.

    • @MaD0915
      @MaD0915 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@rociot4690 even if it was unprovable, you can still prove something is false only if it's false. So you would just have to show that you can't prove the hypothesis as false. As far as I'm aware anyway

    • @evalsoftserver
      @evalsoftserver 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      A Solution for the RIEMANN ZETA FUNCTION is extremely valuable because It also point to Solutions for enhancing the HAMILTON GEOMETRZATION Poincare conjecture, Hodge Invariance conjecture as it relates to PRIME NUMBERS and Doing Arithmetic past ZERO or Singularity as it is called in Analytic Geometry , and Algebraic Geometry, and it Directly points to the Prime factorization Algorithm , the Division algorithm, and the QUADRIATIC FORMULA This Solves many DIMENSIONS and RANK IN THE COMPLEX FUNCTION PLANE for MANIFOLD like The Kahler MANIFOLD ,CALIBU YAU MANIFOLD simeoustanesly and Points to Soulutions to the entire Millennium Prize Problems proposed by The Early 20th Century Philospher and Mathematician David HILBERT , Including the YANG-MILL Mass GAP , and the NP COMPUTATION time space COMPLEXITY problem also know as the Traveling Salesman problem

  • @vinaloi41
    @vinaloi41 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1790

    This should be a series. Like I would love to see a video on all the Millennium Problems. Especially the one that was solved.

    • @Takin2000
      @Takin2000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Cold Ham on Rye an infinite series

    • @lucashoffses9019
      @lucashoffses9019 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      You might’ve already seen it, but in case you haven’t, they’ve made a video about the poincare conjecture, which is the one that was solved.
      I’d also like to see videos about the other millenium problems.

    • @tonatiuhcortes9968
      @tonatiuhcortes9968 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The one of the solved one (Poincaré Conjecture) has already been uploaded. Check it out :)

    • @MrTechnikaal
      @MrTechnikaal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes dey have made videos about 3 of Dem..p-np problem,reimann hypothesis and poincare conjecture. dey need to need make videos about remaining 4..I find especially hard to understand yang-mills problem

    • @TheAlps36
      @TheAlps36 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They also made one on Navier-Stokes

  • @TheGamblermusic
    @TheGamblermusic 8 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    my daily job is to sell fruits and vegetables, I was pretty bad at school in mathematics, and i'm here watching hours of mathemematical videos and i enjoy them so such because I can actually follow up.
    Thank you numberphile, deeply.

    • @morganirosonna2871
      @morganirosonna2871 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Gl my dude

    • @ThatModestCow
      @ThatModestCow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      This comment is so wholesome. Keep on learning

    • @howardlam6181
      @howardlam6181 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wait, so you know what is an analytic function, the use of complex plane, and de moivre theorem?

    • @Legend_Hunter_Original
      @Legend_Hunter_Original 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@howardlam6181 lol I'm guessing he knows about logarithmic branch cuts too

    • @FisicoNuclearCuantico
      @FisicoNuclearCuantico 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Keep on learning!

  • @brandonfreese3005
    @brandonfreese3005 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I studied engineering, but listening to this magician talk about Maths really makes me feel like I should have gone into Maths. It's always such a pleasure to have a teacher or lecturer be patient about the work they're teaching. It inspires students far more than anything else.

  • @TheOfficialSkriIIlex
    @TheOfficialSkriIIlex 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2509

    When Jamie Lannister becomes a mathematician

  • @cryptexify
    @cryptexify 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2421

    Thank you, Jaime Lannister.

    • @sumitno10
      @sumitno10 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      first thing came to my mind

    • @mariomuysensual
      @mariomuysensual 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      HAHAHA that's the first thing i think

    • @ginolalthazuala8880
      @ginolalthazuala8880 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      looooooooll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @Belgdor
      @Belgdor 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      More like Gendry

    • @saultube44
      @saultube44 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      He has some resemblance, but in any case, Russian Jaime Lannister

  • @derekpezzella7182
    @derekpezzella7182 9 ปีที่แล้ว +324

    I love how passionate the speakers are in Numberphile videos.

    • @Safwan.Hossain
      @Safwan.Hossain 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Makes sense. Most of these guys will only ever communicate to a maximum of maybe to 500 people in a lecture at one time? They're getting an not so common opportunity interacting with a huge amount of people interested in the subject (numberphile fans subscribers)

    • @sineporfa9053
      @sineporfa9053 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Passion is sexy.

  • @MrZombieexpert27
    @MrZombieexpert27 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    I love how Grady, who obviously really enjoys mathematics, can phrase a question to the guest like he's never seen an integral or a derivative in his life.

  • @jschnabes13
    @jschnabes13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    I could listen to this man talk about math forever. He makes the incredibly complex easy to understand for the laymen.

  • @ace.of.space.
    @ace.of.space. 7 ปีที่แล้ว +416

    I watched Professor Frenkel in this video quite a while ago, and now he is my professor. Things work out wonderfully sometimes.

    • @themightybrick2264
      @themightybrick2264 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      craftysunshine I wish he was my professor to, but I was rejected from Berkeley. Might apply for grad school though, I’d honestly go there just to talk to this guy in Russian, потому что я тоже русский

    • @talhatariqyuluqatdis
      @talhatariqyuluqatdis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Damn

  • @woodsmith_1
    @woodsmith_1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    "There is more to this than meets the i."

  • @azhar07464
    @azhar07464 4 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    This is the best introduction to complex numbers I have seen.

    • @brunesi
      @brunesi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Actually a far better way is to think 'which representation, when squared, leads to -1. let's call it √-1. -1 is, also, a 1 oriented to 180°. if you multiply 1 by -1, it rotates it 180°. if you multiply 1 by √-1, it will rotate 90°. multiply again, it will rotate 180°. ' this has broad use, for instance, in electrical circuits and electrical engineering. moreover, one can easily see the relation with sines and cosines, Euler formula etc.

  • @alfredhitchcock45
    @alfredhitchcock45 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love it when a Non Native English Speaker explains Math, it's direct to the point and concise

  • @hermannballesterosv
    @hermannballesterosv 8 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    The best explanation yet to a very complex problem. This man is an exemplary teacher.

  • @CHARrrrrrrrr
    @CHARrrrrrrrr 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2045

    I have no idea whats going on, but i feel smart just watching

    • @smittywerbenjagermanjensen7027
      @smittywerbenjagermanjensen7027 8 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      +CHARrrrrrrrr Welcome to math

    • @ErojFeeding
      @ErojFeeding 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      +CHARrrrrrrrr what does it mean if I do understand it then??

    • @smittywerbenjagermanjensen7027
      @smittywerbenjagermanjensen7027 8 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      ***** Welcome to math class

    • @joeq6683
      @joeq6683 7 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      +Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen This is much better than math class. Math class teaches the fundamentals whereas TH-cam teaches the abstract and complicated topics.

    • @sirdondaniel
      @sirdondaniel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I would give you a like for that comment but I don't want to encourage that way of being cool :)

  • @wearenoless6732
    @wearenoless6732 5 ปีที่แล้ว +317

    Me: I understood what has been said in this video
    My brain: it is a trap,it is a trap ,it is a trap.

    • @workout9594
      @workout9594 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      we are no less I swear I'd watch a video and understand it, then read my textbook and I have no idea what is going on

    • @revenevan11
      @revenevan11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@workout9594 and in my case I then then read the textbook and eventually feel like I understand it, but repeat this pattern when I first read the exam. The problem is that I can't exactly afford to repeat that until I understand though lol

    • @Jivvi
      @Jivvi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      When you think you understand it, that is evidence that you don't understand it.

  • @samsteel4456
    @samsteel4456 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    How wonderfully enjoyable to listen to a master speak about a field he is both brilliant in and passionate about.

  • @ckmishn3664
    @ckmishn3664 7 ปีที่แล้ว +319

    "In this care there's more to it than meets the 'i""
    Specifically 1/2 more than that part that meets the i.

  • @JcGross93
    @JcGross93 10 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    New Vsauce video, new Numberphile video... These are glorious days, I tell you.

    • @TheBhuvan002
      @TheBhuvan002 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Waiting for CGPGrey now.

  • @kumardigvijaymishra5945
    @kumardigvijaymishra5945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I love math, and respect to Prof Edward Frenkel for explaining Reimann zeta function, and conveying that mathematicians should be open to unconventionality to seek new answers.

    • @jimbo6238
      @jimbo6238 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yup. agreed...

  • @athuldevraj3948
    @athuldevraj3948 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I am gonna prove it. Believe me I am just 15 now, by the age of 30, I would prove it. It’s my contribution to the world’s best subject.

    • @jellyj1696
      @jellyj1696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      All the best for that big guy

    • @athuldevraj3948
      @athuldevraj3948 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jellyj1696 thank you sir. All the best for your future ventures too

    • @jellyj1696
      @jellyj1696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@athuldevraj3948 thankyou. Well how's your progress

    • @willywonka1962
      @willywonka1962 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@athuldevraj3948 Perhaps look at what Terrance Tao said about becoming obsessed with a big problem first. You must have a solid understanding of everything else and a varied toolkit. These haven't been solved for a reason. They require entirely new math which needs to be made from scratch. All the best luck.

    • @athuldevraj3948
      @athuldevraj3948 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@willywonka1962 sure sir! Thank you for the support and advice

  • @justinsiehl4666
    @justinsiehl4666 10 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    This is the stuff I want to do for a living...I love wrapping my head around things like this, even if I make no progress on them. I've loved numbers for as long as I can remember. The way everything in math connects and intersects is beautiful to me. It's mind blowing to think that we, humans, some random species on some random hunk of rock in this absolutely massive universe, have developed a universal language to define everything we observe, everything we can't observe, and everything in between.
    I really hope I'm still around when some of these brain stumping math problems and equations are finally figured out. To see what advances could be made once we have some of the answers. It'd be even more interesting to know what the people that originally thought them up would have done with them if they had figured them out.

    • @vandibox
      @vandibox 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Justin Siehl Well for now you have to deal with whips and nae nae's.
      Yes I do realise im 2 years to late.

    • @Felipe_Ribeir0
      @Felipe_Ribeir0 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Justin Siehl we have developed a universal language or we discovered a universal language? Math isnt a human creation, according to some people. Its much more than that

  • @YnseSchaap
    @YnseSchaap 7 ปีที่แล้ว +638

    It;s the brown paper isn't it, you need the brown paper

    • @eldiablo7455
      @eldiablo7455 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Ynse Schaap and a sharpie

    • @user-js8ut1bx4c
      @user-js8ut1bx4c 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      And a dollar 40 cents annoying pen from Tesco

    • @eugenesagan212
      @eugenesagan212 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ynse Schaap never seen ‘it’s’ spelled with a semicolon

    • @peterparker-or2os
      @peterparker-or2os 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      i love the videos but the marker on the brown paper is so cringy.

    • @lolgamez9171
      @lolgamez9171 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@peterparker-or2os wat?

  • @BanditFoxx
    @BanditFoxx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Never learnt anything well from any of my past math teachers, first time I hear about most of the concepts in this video and this guy has made them crystal clear to me.

  • @benbrown3786
    @benbrown3786 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    "And at 1, that value will be, you guessed it, minus 1/12."
    The rest of the world:

    • @aadiupraity3556
      @aadiupraity3556 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      S. Ramanujan blesses you from heaven

    • @NateROCKS112
      @NateROCKS112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      It's -1, not positive 1. Zeta(1) doesn't exist.

    • @skyiloh7460
      @skyiloh7460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@NateROCKS112 doesn't zeta(1) diverge?

    • @NateROCKS112
      @NateROCKS112 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@skyiloh7460 that's just a specific way to say it doesn't exist. Edit: But to answer your question, yes, because Zeta(1) is just the harmonic series.

    • @skyiloh7460
      @skyiloh7460 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NateROCKS112 exactly!

  • @kwas101
    @kwas101 10 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    This guy is a great teacher. I wish he had have been my maths teacher, he distills the basics down so a maths dope like me can understand it perfectly :-)

  • @MrJaco324
    @MrJaco324 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3347

    I have a truly marvelous proof for the Riemann hypothesis that this comment section is to small to contain.

    • @wierdalien1
      @wierdalien1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +258

      That's terrible. Get out.

    • @MichaelGoldenberg
      @MichaelGoldenberg 8 ปีที่แล้ว +859

      +MrJaco324 I have a marvelous proof for ALL the Millennium problems, which unfortunately my brain is too small to contain.

    • @anarcho.pacifist
      @anarcho.pacifist 8 ปีที่แล้ว +261

      +MrJaco324 Fermat, is that you? :)

    • @gfetco
      @gfetco 8 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      +Daniel Șuteu Didn't Fermat create more problems than he solved? :P

    • @saintcelab3451
      @saintcelab3451 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +MrJaco324 Fermat? haha

  • @YosmHere
    @YosmHere 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I will solve the Riemann Hypothesis

    • @clusteringmiu
      @clusteringmiu หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yo bro I want $1 from the million dollars

    • @guy5979
      @guy5979 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Belive in u

    • @masudshafi9946
      @masudshafi9946 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      In dreams

    • @DodgerX
      @DodgerX 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      All the best mate

    • @YosmHere
      @YosmHere 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@clusteringmiu sure

  • @clutcherhierts
    @clutcherhierts 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    There's nothing more satisfying than watching a mathematician enjoy his craft.

  • @Herrenhandtasche35
    @Herrenhandtasche35 9 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    That was the best explanation of imaginary numbers I ever heard.

  • @donabhyuday
    @donabhyuday 7 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    "We can ban root of minus 1"
    "This is a bad point"
    I laughed too hard 😂

  • @tigrantadevosyan731
    @tigrantadevosyan731 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is definitely the best Numberphile video. Mathematics is beautiful but the way in which maths is taught in classrooms around the world makes it boring and disinteresting. Thanks to videos like these , channels like Numberphile and applications like Mathematicia, Wolfram Alpha and Matlab, learning maths becomes exciting.

  • @JDSpartan2007
    @JDSpartan2007 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ten damn years later and this is still one of the best explanations I've ever seen of the Riemann zeta function and hypothesis.

  • @Number-cz1rd
    @Number-cz1rd 9 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    "Then you can mark your favorite fractions" on the line. After all, who doesn't have a favorite fraction or two? :-)

    • @1996Pinocchio
      @1996Pinocchio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have one half favorite fraction

  • @ssimarsawhney
    @ssimarsawhney 7 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    this is my professor at berkeley next semester. Im am so friking ecstatic

    • @user-go7sr1zf6d
      @user-go7sr1zf6d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ssimarsawhney have you finished your education?)

    • @jac1011
      @jac1011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@user-go7sr1zf6dAll the math broke his brain, he's long gone lol

  • @ejohnso1967
    @ejohnso1967 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'm not a math whiz, but I find the explanations of Prof. Frenkel to be clear and easy to follow. I imagine he is a rather popular teacher?

  • @nodnarbnaelc6819
    @nodnarbnaelc6819 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the best guy on Numberphile. When others explain the RZ function, it seems to go over my head. When he explains it, it seems so simple that elementary school me could have grasped it.

  • @oggassaggaoggaffa
    @oggassaggaoggaffa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    This is probably the most coherent and enthusiastic explanation of a math mind-bender that I have ever seen. Talk about breathing life and importance into an otherwise dull concept! Well done sirs.

  • @baixado4ever
    @baixado4ever 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    I love it the video says "keep watching" when our old friend from -1/12 videos appears

  • @facusoi
    @facusoi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    8:24 Nice

  • @projectRA4
    @projectRA4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When Edward used analytical continuation and out popped -1/12 where infinity was supposed to be, it felt like magic. I remember watching Numberphile’s -1/12 video and thinking that Ramanujan’s proof was not meaningful.
    This was super beautiful and Edward made the explanation entertaining!

    • @davip116
      @davip116 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I didnt' get how zeta(-1)=infinity at the start of the video, and became zeta(-1)=-1/12 at the end.

    • @projectRA4
      @projectRA4 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@davip116 There are two ways to right the riemann formula. Either by saying (1/n) + (1/n^2) + ... OR by plugging it into a sigma sum.
      The sigma sum is what gives -1/12, while just writing the infinite sequence does not.

  • @photographe06
    @photographe06 10 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Fantastic accent and delivery. Bravo!!

  • @OmegaRainbow
    @OmegaRainbow 10 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    love the passion Prof Ed Frenkel shows for his math :D

  • @barmouthbridge8772
    @barmouthbridge8772 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This bloke exudes intellect and charm. I can watch this clip repeatedly as I can the Graham's number clip and the Collatz conjecture one. These narrators of themes of such complexity are both humble and like flashlights illustrating a window into darkness for those of us grasping at these fascinating concepts. Special mention to Holly Krieger for being a fractal femme extraordinaire.

  • @ayoubab2120
    @ayoubab2120 4 ปีที่แล้ว +297

    the Riemann haircut looks like the integral symbol

    • @lux27.42
      @lux27.42 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hahahahahahhahahahaha.....

    • @baronvonbeandip
      @baronvonbeandip 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He walked the walk.

    • @olivervalmes170
      @olivervalmes170 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @sjg4388
    @sjg4388 8 ปีที่แล้ว +258

    What an easy explanation! I love his Russian accent.

    • @TheLoveKusano
      @TheLoveKusano 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Я тоже сразу заметил: русский человек.

    • @biomech7
      @biomech7 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +či šo suka či šo Он даже один раз где-то "да" сказал, оговорился )

    • @xamzx9281
      @xamzx9281 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      да да, вместо three три говорит :)

    • @sori227
      @sori227 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Rare seeing another korean around on an english video!

    • @sjg4388
      @sjg4388 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      님 한국인임? 근데 이름이 왜 이렇게 독일스러움?

  • @stevesybesma
    @stevesybesma 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Extremely interesting. I've heard of the Riemann Hypothesis but never knew what it was until now.

  • @vaishnavikhare2879
    @vaishnavikhare2879 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Dr Eswaran from India has proved it!

    • @star_ms
      @star_ms 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No

  • @derekwilson3301
    @derekwilson3301 4 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    7:19 that calculator of yours is faulty

    • @xdavidliu
      @xdavidliu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      yep; there was a typo; should have said pi^2/6 but instead said pi/6

  • @AzureFlash
    @AzureFlash 10 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I've come to learn that everything with Riemann's name on it is a massive headache inducer

    • @Louigi36
      @Louigi36 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not quite everything, Riemann Integral is pretty simple and straightforward, You cut an area into many rectangles and sum up their respective size. Everyone knows what rectangles are and how you can calculate their area, so it's really easy to visualise.

    • @ZardoDhieldor
      @ZardoDhieldor 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I love Riemann. All the cool stuff in maths is named after him! :D

    • @ThisNameIsBanned
      @ThisNameIsBanned 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      1 Million Riemann Dollar !

    • @NomadUrpagi
      @NomadUrpagi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How about a "Riemann" paracetamol pills? Will they also give you a headache?

  • @antiHUMANDesigns
    @antiHUMANDesigns 10 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I've solved it. But I'm not going to tell anyone.

  • @sebastianz.773
    @sebastianz.773 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    love how tidy and clear his annotations on the paper are. I can't understand my own writing after i write more than 3 letters.

  • @NoriMori1992
    @NoriMori1992 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love Edward Frenkel's accent. And I respect him even more than before, after listening to his episode on The Numberphile Podcast.

  • @richo61
    @richo61 9 ปีที่แล้ว +355

    This is my favorite Numberphile video.
    And it does NOT back up the false assertions made in the "-1/12" videos.
    (Which are my least favourite of all Numberphile videos.)

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  9 ปีที่แล้ว +294

      richo61 have you ranked them all?

    • @elingeniero2000
      @elingeniero2000 9 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Im an engineer so I am no expert on theoretical mathematic. I understand it blows up but why does the process they used to end up with -1/12 incorrect. substitution is a valid procedure in math

    • @richo61
      @richo61 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Numberphile "have you ranked them all?"
      Not yet!
      Of the ones I have so far viewed, this is my favorite.
      8-)

    • @elingeniero2000
      @elingeniero2000 9 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Goyathlay Amedeo
      thank you makes sense

    • @nileshjambhekar7699
      @nileshjambhekar7699 9 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Yes but that is a direct contradiction. This video is based on the riemann zeta function which says that zeta(-1)=-1/12. They showed it to you via "floozy" math but it's a serious result in math. I don't claim to understand what it means, but it is what it is.

  • @sriram828
    @sriram828 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I want to really thank Numberphile for teaching me about Riemann Hypothesis clearly because I had struggled very much to understand this problem since when i learnt about the Milllennium problems. Thank you so much for describing briefly about Riemann Hypothesis

  • @chrisrace744
    @chrisrace744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was so well explained. Very well done. Great video! So insightful.

  • @moamenabdelkawy5718
    @moamenabdelkawy5718 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Incredible explanation. Pure gold. Videos like this keep me from uninstalling TH-cam.

  • @Romenadan
    @Romenadan 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I loved the explanation of real, imaginary, and complex numbers in this video (~ 4:40-7:10). If it was taught to me this way in school I would have actually understood it!

  • @michaeldunlap111
    @michaeldunlap111 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Very interesting. I'm currently studying Complex Analysis right now. Since I found it so similar to Vector Calculus, I'm constantly going back to it to find the corresponding arithmetic operations between the two. I'm excited to find out that my current studies are approaching the Riemann Zeta function, and that it plays an important role in the distribution of prime numbers. Thank you for your video!

  • @r6854
    @r6854 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Wow, you can feel this guy's passion for math

  • @ashutoshkumarjha41
    @ashutoshkumarjha41 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks sir, for explaining so beautifully about zeta function. Simple and eloquent.

  • @DavidMoscoeUni
    @DavidMoscoeUni 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    At 7:20 the video shows the calculator returning a value of pi/6 for when 2 is the input of the function, but it says earlier in the video that the value is pi squared over 6

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  10 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      sorry

    • @CRGreathouse
      @CRGreathouse 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      pi^2 / 6 is correct. The special effects are cool, but take them with a grain of salt!

    • @VagrantWatcher213
      @VagrantWatcher213 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Numberphile it's ok

    • @strengthman600
      @strengthman600 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Description dude

    • @BenWithington
      @BenWithington 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He wrote that 2 years ago, the description was updated after numberphile read the comment

  • @TheDiggster13
    @TheDiggster13 10 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I could spend an entire day listening to this guy talk! He's so entertaining to watch.

  • @nixonkutz3018
    @nixonkutz3018 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I like that he explains sqrt(-1) is called "i" because "we imagined it." There's still plenty of debate about whether "real" numbers are any less just a product of our imaginations!

  • @Gersberms
    @Gersberms 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This guy is great, his presentation is amazingly easy to follow.

  • @sufficientlyoldskool
    @sufficientlyoldskool 8 ปีที่แล้ว +479

    I wish I was smart enough to even attempt to solve something like this.

    • @abdurrazzak305
      @abdurrazzak305 8 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Comments like these assure me that I'm not alone :P

    • @pooly666
      @pooly666 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      If you were that smart, you wouldn't care about money, so you wouldn't attempt it, or just for fun, just like this russian guy who refused the 1M $ prize on one of this problem . ;) no hate.

    • @pooly666
      @pooly666 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ***** i never saw that, but come on ... that is too obvious. Even if your comment is pretty well placed.

    • @mitica7914
      @mitica7914 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Oh Yeahh Really i domt think u can call "too obvious" he didnt mention anything about that, i mean could be but i dont know where did you get it from his comment

    • @justjulied
      @justjulied 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      sufficientlyoldskool you are smart enough, it doesn't hurt to try.

  • @sudiXP
    @sudiXP 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Him: "It's an answer you can find online."
    Me: "I am online man."

  • @Prasen1729
    @Prasen1729 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video is such a treat to watch. I see it time and again.

  • @matejalmasi6533
    @matejalmasi6533 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It all sounds esoteric.
    A bit later:
    So we connect it to distribution of primes...
    I know he wanted to point out the significance, because we all somehow care about the primes (computer security...). But it made me smile :)

  • @cscooperau
    @cscooperau 10 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Could we possibly get a video explaining how the non-trivial zeros relate to prime number distribution?

    • @crazedvidmaker
      @crazedvidmaker 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Get a master's degree in number theory

    • @cscooperau
      @cscooperau 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Andrew Christensen Too busy doing PhD in telecom

    • @jeremyj.5687
      @jeremyj.5687 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yeah, this is kind of the elephant in the room after this video. I have no idea how the two are related and I´d really like to know. Maybe we´ll get an "Extra Stuff" of this video.

    • @cscooperau
      @cscooperau 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jeremy J.
      I am aware of how the behaviour of the Riemann Zeta Function relates to Prime Numbers, because it is equivalent to an infinite product function of all Prime Numbers. Also, the Riemann Hypothesis is equivalent to another conjecture that states the error of the Prime Counting Function has a definite limit. However, I'm not sure how the non-trivial zeros are related to it.

  • @bkzlab
    @bkzlab 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This guy has explained it so well. Bravo and thank you sir!

  • @mjzudba5268
    @mjzudba5268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I came from Veritasium's video about his deeper and richer love for turbulent flow and bias towards laminar flow. It was a nice video.

  • @archangel9524
    @archangel9524 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    IF i have had seen this video 12 years ago I would probably fall in love with math. Great stuff

  • @winter32842
    @winter32842 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you Brady for doing a piece on Riemann hypothesis. I have been waiting for this for a while.

  • @sanjoggururaj4674
    @sanjoggururaj4674 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Here after the Indian Mathematician proved the hypothesis. Absolutely mind blowing.

  • @JJ-uj1wi
    @JJ-uj1wi 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I only just came across this video by recommendation thinking Im only gonna watch a few min to get the idea and move on. But I ended up watching the full video because the Theorem and the way professor explains it are so fascinating!

  • @Bobskilintopia
    @Bobskilintopia 10 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    He has beautiful writing.

    • @marcinkaczmarek6156
      @marcinkaczmarek6156 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I opt for Walter Lewin in that matter. I've developed my 'mathematical' writing style by mimicking what i saw at his famous physics course.

  • @ekinebobmanuel4551
    @ekinebobmanuel4551 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm only seven minutes in and this guy just explained imaginary numbers in such a comprehensive way that...
    I think I finally get it
    It's beautiful
    I think I might cry

  • @babelbabel2419
    @babelbabel2419 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    His enthusiasm is contagious. A great teacher and a great video!
    As a side note, the -1/12 result for s=-1 (it's also one the Ramanujan equations) still baffles me although I've watched excellent videos about it. I get it that we should say it's a super-summation and not a regular sum (the series is still divergent with a regular summation). But the fact that that very result explains the Casimir effect in real world physics is akin to magic.

  • @AAAIJungwon
    @AAAIJungwon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Came here to see this great video after watching the recent podcast with Lex Fridman. So much passion in his eyes!

  • @AlltimeConspiracies
    @AlltimeConspiracies 10 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Fantastic video! Thumbs up from ATC!

  • @claritas6557
    @claritas6557 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I really Love this guy, his enthusiasm is very infectious.

  • @cheyma7945
    @cheyma7945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I'm in love with his accent!

    • @segueoyuri
      @segueoyuri 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Russian, pal.

  • @davidwilliansmorante9798
    @davidwilliansmorante9798 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Magnificent explanation, it is the first time in my short life that I understand something clearly

  • @RamboMadCow
    @RamboMadCow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You can feel the passion for math when this professor speaks. Makes me wish I had time to learn complex math.

  • @arimanno74
    @arimanno74 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A beautiful lesson.
    The better explanation of riemann zeta function that expose perfectly and clearly how simply and beautiful is to arrive on the wall of the 1 million dollar question.
    I am beginner in math, but this take me exactly at the base of the wall.
    Excellent.

  • @shivrajpatil1770
    @shivrajpatil1770 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was searching Google for long to at least understand what is the purpose of Riemann function. Now it's easy. Damn this person.

  • @ethanlawrence2825
    @ethanlawrence2825 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love how he writes his zetas. Great video. :)

  • @rolandk2403
    @rolandk2403 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I didn't know I was supposed to have a favorite fraction! :) (5:20)