The Scientist Who Sucked at Math
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I'd like to see the biographies of Kepler, the real father of gravity; and Guericke, the real father of electricity.
MAXWELL was given faradays laws of electromagnatic induction to write them in the maths after he discovered them and discovered a generator, maxwell has nothing to do with those discoveries , today we can write them in our own maths and throw out the maxwell because he has nothing to do with it. he was just another rich kid looking for opportunity to be famouse on some one else works so he is finally out...
Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernard Rieman, Schrödinger
Wasn't Heaviside the true originator of the equations?
Emmy Noether; Julian Schwinger; Sophie Germain; Paul Weiss; Joseph Jacobi.
Respect to Mrs Faraday. A very supportive wife. She knew his potential
Good one! 😂
Haha! Nice!
I see what you did there!
Fortunately, he had a magnetic personality. Thanks for staying current.
Michael Faraday's story was one the first scientist stories I heard as kid, still inspiring to this day.
My favourite ever. Watched the documentary with glassy eyes
He inspires me to publish my theories as a not academic person. 😊
Andrew Carnegie for us non stem majors
Heard his story as a kid and realised that anyone can make something of themselves if they have dedication and belief. This guy is inspirational and one of my heroes.
Michael Faraday could do math! He wasn't formally educated, but his abilities were good enough. Maxwells equations came directly from Faradays experiments and journals.
exactly
@@ethansocrates4252 He only knew upto algebra
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@@Liwidyanto789 Wikipedia
@@Liwidyanto789 and some biographies
'His lack of education may have been a blessing in disguise,' big shout out to my hometown's public high school! You prepared me to walk in the company of greatness!
I know what you mean - i feel incredibly fortunate to have worked with EXCELLENT people. Somewhat frequently, I find myself asking, “How did i even get into this place?”
Really? There was a big kerfuffle 50 years ago about the 'Aristotlean' physics being taught in schools. This never led to any real change in teaching methods. As a result, there are engineers currently working at NASA, Boeing, etc., who demonstrably do not understand Newton's third law.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature
~ Michael Faraday
If Michael Faraday was present during the time of Noble prize, he would have got so many of them
Its interesting how Faraday without formal education was influenced by a great mathematician Boscovich to create "lines of force". These influenced great mathematician Maxwell to establish his equations. Finally, they're in today's form thanks to Heaviside, man that lacked formal education.
there are no "lines of force". its an illusion.
@@paradiselost9946 isnt any mathematical formalism an illusion?
I've been waiting for this video of Michael Faraday thank you
Gosh what a guy truly inspiring
Thank you very much. I love scientists and inventors story.
Hundred percent. It always makes me wonder, where we would have been, had it not been for them. God bless their brilliant souls 🙏
His contribution has lead the humanity to next level. Absolutely Genius
I love your biography videos Cindi. They are concise, professional and very informative. Thank you.
His chemistry and science knowledge was beyond any mathematician.
mathematicians are not scientists.....
and newton is a much more revered scientist who also literally invented calculus
That's... not a very plausible comparison.
@@TheKimbit Your some what right and wrong. Mathematician themselves dealing with just math is not a scientist. But the field of Mathematics goes beyond knowing math. Its a understanding of all applied math. So when you go to school to be a mathmatician you are also using datasets like in statistics. just using a graphing calculator you can create your own algorithms cause your dealing with math over time when your using graphs. An example could be a team of scientist that study climate change over time. The team may require a mathematician to take in datasets and analyze climate change over time based on historical data to predict or determine the causes. In this case a mathematician is a scientist. He doesnt even have to know anything about climate change, all he is focused on is the record sets and variables to punch in to get a result dataset. These types of things require study. As long as you understand the subject at which your applying math to your a scientist. But that same mathimatician could also take his degree and be a professor or teacher in which he is not a scientist. Your field of study does not make you a scientist, your field of work does.
@@anthonygordon9483 you're saying if a math major decides to be a scientist, then they are a scientist. That's obvious. But a mathematician is never a scientist. Your definition of mathematician seems to be "anyone who uses math in their career" which is obviously not the case. A mathematician is a person whos primary goal is to study math, which objectively means, nothing to do with the sciences unless it is mathematical applications that MAY be used in sciences, which is still not science.
Also, no mathematician studies datasets? Then you are doing data analysis or some applied math FIELD, but not mathematical work..
If you go and do scientific work, then you are not a mathematician anymore, unless you do mathematics study as a hobby
Saying " the field of Mathematics goes beyond knowing math" is obviously not true, by definition. You seem to think anyone who uses math is a mathematician, which is certainly not the case, a mathematician is someone who studies math for the sake of knowing math. If you study math to do statistics, then you are studying statistics or data analysis.
Michael Faraday was Sir Humphrey Davies greatest discovery
Madam, you treated Michael Faraday with sympathy and respect. He was a humble man and at the same time a great man of science, and an inspiration to me. As an engineer, I probably know more math then he, but that does not diminish my admiration. He did what he did with what he had - dogged enthusiasm and a relentless heart. He forged ahead where others failed.
No narcissism in that comment 🙄
🤡🤡🤡 wtf
@@waynec369you clown
@waynec369 yes. The reason why he said he knew more maths than Faraday is because math have come a long way since then. So people who learn math now will most likely learn the stuff that weren't known at Faradays time.
I had a similar revelation in the field of optics. Today we use tunable lasers and optical amplifiers to study Raman scattering.
Yet Raman, perhaps the earliest big time Indian physicist, was doing “our” experiments with only sunlight and bulk optics because that’s essentially all he had. WHAT ?! 😳
Your videos are always informative to watch and fun to see always the way you explain and breakdown the video. Waiting for the next :)
Wonderful video about Michael Faraday! I talk, write and teach about him regularly. James Maxwell is another giant in the scientific community. Einstein stood on the shoulders of them and had their poster in his office. Your website looks pretty interesting too. I will check it out and may contact you directly
Excellent video...Not just we get to know about the personal life of Faraday, I believe such chronological accounts help us better understand the concepts of science as well, as we get to know the context of their work, what puzzles they were after
i actually had to study elektro magnetism, and i never quite understood why a magnet trough a coil could produce a current but your quote that the same process could be reversed made it all clear!
so you know understand? are you sure? because you know it works the other way?
what if the coils shorted out? what if the coils open circuit?
if you understood at all, you wouldnt understand but would be more confused than ever!
Did you really understand it, if you're satisfied with understanding that the inverse is also true?
The magnetic field created by a coil can be explained as a effect caused by special relativity in short there is no actual magnetic field instead the lenght of the moving electrons decreases relative to a charge that is moving to and from the perspective of the charge inside the cabel is not cancelling out wich creats an force also known as the Lorents force.
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It isn't necessary that Faraday was bad at math. His educational background on the subject was just lacking. The fact that he did all his discoveries DESPITE having no knowledge on advanced math showed how smart he truly was.
He was bad at math because he didn't KNOW how to do it, that's all.
@@s.f.f.f.t11- That’s right. He wasn’t bad at maths, he was simply under-educated in maths.
there is a world of difference between having an intuitive grasp of how something actually WORKS, versus being able to arrange squiggles from one side of an equals sign to the other.
do you spend more time struggling with the concept, the physical processes, or do you struggle and waste time moving squiggles around on a page? my experience is we seem to get blinded by the task of moving squiggles.
maths is only of any use if you understand how the squiggles relate to the physical process they are supposed to describe. but one can understand the physical process by simple observations. no squiggles required.
some of the BEST "engineers" i know can barely write their own name. drop-outs. but they already knew how things worked. just had no reason to prove they can move squiggles around, preferred proving it by simply doing it.
be amazed just how much of our modern world came about by so called "uneducated" or "self taught" people...
@7:37 - Wait ... what? There's a hydroelectric power plant at Niagra Falls? How did I miss that? Oh, wait, it's not there at all. It's at nearby Lewiston and bypasses the falls altogether.
Excellent video Cindy! I learned a handful of new fun Faraday facts.
Thanks Nate - and really appreciate you letting me use your footage too!
I sometimes ponder those “giants” upon whose shoulders we stand.
I feel profound gratitude recognizing sacrifices made by them that have brought humanity forward.
What 'sacrifices' exactly? Going without the things that they had not yet invented?
Canadian electrical engineer, Mark McCutcheon, has updated electricity and all of physics since 2002. “The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy “, for proper physics. Much progress since Faraday, Maxwell, Steinmetz, Heaviside, etc.
Nice video as always. You forgot to mention about the famous Faraday's laws of electrolysis.
Einstein famously said that if you can't explain a scientific phenomenon in a fairly simple and straight forward manner, then you don't really understand it. Mathematical expressions make a great icing on the cake that can show precise relationships between disparate things. But they are usually not the best starting place for developing a true understanding. When Einstein performed thought experiments he wasn't running equations through his head, but he was thinking deeply about the physical world we understand through our senses.
The key factor, (1-V^2/c^2)^(1/2), of special relativity can be found in the works of Leonhard Euler. Perhaps if Einstein had read more Euler he wouldn't have needed thought-experiments.
@@DJF1947 -- reading Euler's voluminous writings would occupy a significant chunk of a human lifetime. A good thought experiment might be conducted in a single afternoon.
@@robbes7rh His work is not randomly arranged; one does not have to wade through his work on number theory in order to find his work on optics and hydraulics. Incidentally, the above expression also turns up with regard to the light-path in the Michelson-Morley experiment. It was very wise to insert the weasel-word, 'good', with regard to thought-experiments, which are fertile ground for self-deception. I have seen inventors work out exactly how fast their 'centrifugal drive' will propel a craft in deep space ... while remaining completely oblivious of the fact that centrifugal force is fictitious and cannot propel anything.
It is notable that Faraday was a book binder and took notes while attending Davy's lectures and bound the notes into a book, which he presented to Davy.
Great video, God bless you.
very nicely, put a smooth transition to information
He did really well for someone with such disadvantages. Who knows what he would have discovered if he'd came from a wealthier background.
A beautiful and inspiring story...thanks.
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Great work as always.
i love the way she put the sponsor at the end of the video instead of putting it in middle of the video. Putting the sponsor in middle of the video breaks the flow of someone understanding .
Faraday's concept of electric and magnetic fields was revoltionary. Developing a strong physical intuition of electromagnetic fields is still a demanding task.
His collaboration with Maxwell was truly historic and still grossly under-appreciated for all of its consequences.
He was an excellent mathematician. Formal education matters nothing.
Great Mr Faraday
The lack of formal education is still the main obstacle today for talented potential geniuses to help the progression of science, despite knowing such inspiring stories as this one.
One of my best scientist
"Haven't you finished binding that book yet?"
"Just a few more pages, sir."
Really enjoying your videos, please don't stop :)
It was said that Einstein had three pictures of scientists in his study: Newton, Faraday, and Maxwell
Faraday still got hosed…
He demonstrates the first motor…then it winds up integrated into EVs named for another, Tesla !
Make s video on Some great indian scientists too as we too have many such scientists! Like I would like to watch on from my favourite subject Har Govind Khurrana.
she already made some on Indian mathematicians and scientists
Michael Faraday, is pure genius. Issac Newton, Albert Einstein and Michael Faraday, the three great men of science.
Yes, but don't forget Kepler, the real father of gravity; and Guericke, the real father of electricity.
There are thousands of Europeans who need to be mentioned
Archimedes and Newton stabd abobe others in my opinion. However, there are many legendary scientists.
And Nicola Tesla.
Here's a brilliant idea for brilliant... Allow purchaser's to pay monthly rather than trying to get them to choke up $162. At one time... Especially in today's horrifying financial climate...I was really interested until I saw.... You know... That. 😢
about the time of his death the scientific community moved away from intuitive thinking into the modern day eloquence of mathematics and that's a shame. theoretical physics can be expressed in math formulas, but are rarely observed using the scientific method. lots of hocus pocus going on today 🙄
To anyone interested, here is the book that inspired young Faraday: tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/improvementofmin00watt_0/improvementofmin00watt_0.pdf
sad truth, in this era, Faraday wouldn't even be acknowledged.
@@RuneMamba ...and blacklisted. hundreds of scientists with doctorates today, who happen to be creationists, will attest to that 😠
This is something I've also been thinking lately. I realized that we are not taught how to uniquely think about the things. Instead, we're more focused on learning the mathematical formulas (which is important) but completely ignoring the intuition and the scientific method in the process. I think we should focus more on the intuitive part and then derive the mathematics out of it instead of doing the reverse.
I think science got much more complex and vast since then. Therefore math became more crucial to formalize scientific ideas and to harness them as forms of engineering studies.
4:59 man this narrator is brave.
Last time i touched a charger with *slightly* wet hands, the pain gave me trauma.
Thanks Cindy Paul, thanks Faraday, thanks God, thanks Maxwell, I love you guys too. Amen a future. Blessed marriage, amen
Faraday is the tops on my list due to the many discoveries that have a direct impact on my life. True scientist!😁
What a wonderful man
Have seen in a video/clip that his (Faraday's) Prototype-motor was just a mercury clump in a tiny ceramics Cup, dipped-in by a wire of Copper strand.!! An innovation goes far...
Faraday's 'one-piece homopolar motor' is indeed an interesting device as it serves to separate physicists from electrical engineers. It does not obey the flux-cutting or flux-linking rules of electrical engineers and the latter conclude that it does not obey Newton's third law. This is why so many electrical engineers are willing to believe in perpetual motion and antigravity. Physicists know that the motor cannot be explained without invoking special relativity. But the 'educated public' thinks that relativity must involve high velocities and therefore cannot be relevant to a motor. That is the ongoing tragedy of poor science-teaching.
Michael Faraday is possibly the greatest scientific empericist of all time, and he was an amazingly devoted Christian, a Sandamainen which was basically a reformation movement of the Reformation.
His later speculative theories after his head injury earned later scientist the Nobel Prize. In particular I am referring to the Ramen Effect observed in aerosols. Faraday's instruments were not good enough to observe the Ramen Effect, but he held to his theory. He also proposed a unification of forces theory that science is still pursuing today.
Why is it that you enthusiasts can never be bothered to get the facts straight? It is the Raman Effect! Faraday thanked his god for giving him the insight of the 'conservation of force'. But what was thought of as force is not conserved and, consequently, he was totally baffled by gravitational interactions. Gee, thanks god.
What the song that plays at 6:05? I’ve been looking for it forver
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I understood from this video better what is electromagnetic induction 😅. Explained very simply that's what I want
Newsthink, please make a movie of his life. It’s so inspring.
Please make more technological brands video like asml & zeiss
Whysoforever did the Big Bang happen? Because the frequency of energy digressed and distorted, and suddenly the existence of integrity cared EVERYTHING about the arrangement of EVERYWHERE, such that a sense of time called "feedback against resonance" became ALL important. Thus, by focus on the miniscule and intimate, ALL things became known as EVERYWHERE, that we may snuggle.
Where have you heard this story ... BEFORE?
Still "catching up"?
Make a video on "James Stuart Cleark Maxwell" also😊 that will be great
you can have all of this running in simulations in your head and you dont have to assign numbers to any of it. numbers are just a way to communicate things
Albert Einstein had only two portraits on the wall of his study at Princeton. One was James Maxwell. The other was Michael Faraday.
His approaches were ground breaking and with a few modificatins was applied to other areas of endevors --- the emphasis on observation and subsequent experiment. This according to my Freshman Chemistry Professor. ... And in his own way, for the times, a pretty good chemist too.
Thank U so much ❤👍🙏🙏🙏
Those in the beginning were beautiful graphics
He didn’t had means to formally study mathematics. He didn’t suck he didn’t even did it.
I'm a chemist and sucked in math too 😂
good luck 😢
You are not chemist.you lied, chemist do math for the courses. 👎👎
@@Liwidyanto789 lied? Of course not. In fact, I'm an analytical chemist. Screw you. I don't give a fuck about your opinion.
Plain Mr. Faraday till the end.
Much respect.
He was nevertheless routinely referred to as 'Dr' or 'Professor' at the time. But then, so also was that worthless crackpot, Tesla.
He was from an era when even quantifying electricity was in it's infancy. Yes Faraday had some pioneering intuition behind electricity and he did amazing work with what he had, but without Maxwell's math we would be really struggling with a lot of the complex science that goes behind this. So advice to new young aspiring scientists: try to get better in math, there are many ways to approach math and you need it today: its not an impossible task.
Math it's overrated, but it's important and very simple, if applied correctly. Even without Maxwell, they would have discovered all the math behind electromagnetism. Unfortunately math has become a useless quiz race, and all this useless piss contest started even before 1700. Today we are still in the middle of this quiz race. If Faraday was born today, he wouldn't make it in the elitist scientific world.
@@myuncle2 hear hear!
moving squiggles around a page means rather little if you have no idea what those squiggles mean, or how they relate to physical processes.
and as for maxwell... i have this issue with faradays "lines of force"...
something about magnetised particles and how they tend to line up end to end, making long strings, but also tend to lie side by side, and as they cant flip to achieve neutrality, they tend to repel from each other... so you get what appears to look like "lines of force" when you drop your iron filings over a magnet. thin strings or magnetised particles attached end to end but also repelling away from each other with a force at RIGHT ANGLES to the so called "line of force".
are they actually lines of FORCE? are they stationary, a solid tangible thing? no. i can poke any string of filings and it moves freely. but the adjacent lines tend to move... that really does suggest to me that the force happens to be BETWEEN the lines?
then i get into curl, and theres this thing i cant help but contemplate... newton. action and reaction.
generally, to make something spin one way, there is an equal and opposite reaction the other way... why does whatever is "curling" not produce this corresponding reaction? wheres the TORQUE to produce the "curl" COMING FROM?
i once was really good at re-arranging squiggles. then about halfway through a scholarship i started asking myself what those squiggles actually meant... they didnt seem to actually have anything to do with what was going on?
when you start thinking like that you start to question the whole system based on those concepts... getting carried away with making squiggles based on an illusion... or at least, a misunderstanding. an assumption.
of course, sometimes i do use squiggles still. flux density and cross sections of cores and permeability and amp-turns and ohms law amongst various things.
but at no point have i had to deal with "curl" and its lack of torque or corresponding reactions. i was told to shut up and do the maths when i raised issues.
maybe Mr Faraday, god rest his soul, was more concerned about understanding WHAT WAS TAKING PLACE, than understanding how to move squiggles from one side of an equals sign to the other.
because an equation doesnt give you an intuitive grasp of ANYTHING, really.
Thank heavens Faraday had Maxwell! Thank heavens Einstein had Planck!
Nice biography but the title is a bit misleading. He still was better at math than 99,9% of people living at any time :D
He wasn't bad at maths he just couldn't do it because he wasn't formally educated in it
Faraday is a true genius
When people talk about Slavery remember the poor in Britain were treated terribly.
Good video. Interesting
I wish I could go back in time and have a long chat with him
What I could never really understand is the connection between equations and reality.
Fun fact as Im watching this video I am working through Griffith's electrodynamics Im working on Biot Savart law the more difficult version of ampere's law
As an engineer who sucks at math, I own two of Faraday's books; one of those printed in 1871. I've been dismissed my entire life, so I really associate with him.
GREATEST INTELLECTUAL SCIENTIST& FATHER OF ELETIRIC MOTORS
Man fashion in 1820-40s was exquisite but not overly gaudy like in the previous century
Yes if you could afford it.
These guys were head and shoulders above any modern scientists. Newton, Faraday, Tesla, Archimedes... These people were peak humans, only knowledge, no politics and time wasting.
So, Faraday was Edison & Steve Jobs of his time.
Nicely presented. no Maths used to explain the electricity.
please also mention Hertz.
A Tesla never glides past me on the road!
Electric cars held the World land-speed record for many years. But one cannot expect much of a car named after a crackpot and manufactured by a clown.
I never read or heard of his name earlier nobody knows what is wrong or the right information, unless it is backed by multiple platforms
He is not the only one. Tesla also could not do the math, but some of his fellow scientists would pitch in. I also, can't do the math, yet I love it.
But Tesla could not do anything but lie, steal the inventions of others and tell tall stories to journalists. Have you seen his 3(!) articles about how the Moon does not rotate? What a klutz!
Amazing Faraday, thanks for the video.
The Faraday Cage, one of the more important tools in Nuclear Science as this tool is useful and making other tools, accelerators, and atom smashers.
The silliest thing that I've heard since someone suggested that the Tesla coil is a useful tool.
A simple insight of Einstein's advanced topic of MC^Sq, is it mocks the electric's power formula, VI^Sq, where one evaluated energy from mass for the power of movement support, and the other mass into energy. leaving it up to you to know which is which if I'm right!
Ok a hint tot the math problem.
One is based on mass having energy to match the speed of light!
Deciding to stay "plain Mr Faraday" instead of jumping at a knighthood even though he knew a childhood of poverty. Man had excellent priorities in life.
Well done!
Faraday did not suck at math ... the thing is Maxwell was a math genius! When someone asked Einstein if, paraphrasing a famous phrase by Newton, "the giants whose shoulders he had climbed were those of Newton and Kepler" the famoust physicist replied "no ... I climbed Maxwell's shoulders". Robert Faraday was one of the most important physicist in human history but his results did not arise only from his imagination or uneducation but also from his hard work and the recognition of others like Maxwell. There's this story about his first trip to continental Europe alongside either Maxwell or Lord Kelvin and a dinner in which the wife of the upper class physicist made Faraday eat in the kitchen because he was a commoner. After the dinner was over, the husband politelly invided everybody to have coffee in the kitchen. That's a display of respect and admiration in the greatest form.
Since I'm a humble member of the lower classes ... an egineer ... I'm proud to mention that the famous Maxwell Equations only look good in t-shirts because of ... guess what? ... a British electric engineer called Oliver Heavside who found a way to write the 26 original equations by Maxwell in a form that needed only three equations. When God heard about it he gave permission to use, royalty free, the phrase that often frames the three equations "And God said (1 2 3) and light was created".
You have invented most of that; you couldn't even get his name right!
Apparently he was dyslexic?
Anyhow I have a friend who has helped at the Royal Institution. It has been recently been refurbished. They still have their children lectures at Christmas !
Unfortunately, the presenters have become more and more unhinged. They used to have truly great scientists such as the Bragg's. Now they tend to have trendy presenters like that guy who is trying to turn himself into a cyborg. The rot really set in with Eric Laithwaite, who told everyone that spinning-tops are antigravity devices. That corrupted an entire generation of budding engineers.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Einstein
Thank you.
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