Euler is the Beethoven of Mathematics. It is said that they've managed to compile a whole volume of mathematical discoveries from what's left in his room after his death. And he is considered the most prolific mathematician of all time.
If I pursue a career in mathematics or physics, is it possible for me to develop or discover new theories that challenge existing knowledge or revolutionize our understanding of the universe?
@ Yes. There are tons of open problems in mathematics and physics. Some problems are lesser known than others just because they’re in more obscure disciplines (obscure to the average person) but nonetheless important and revolutionary.
@@ksofficerofficer7858absolutely. Like there are so many problems in mathematics and physics. If your not just spitting bs then you can easily develop new theories. The only thing that matters is it should be consistent, it doesn't have to exactly satisfy the previous theory. General theory of relativity doesn't disprove Newton's laws of motion. General theory in low velocity is Newton's laws. It just extended it. So, if the discovery is factual then nothing else matters.
Brilliant man. If i'm not mistaken, Euler regarded the Bridges of Konigsberg problem as trivial and wondered why it was a problem at all 😂. And graph theory was born.
I've always wondered about the 7 bridges of Konigsberg, since in the problem a human crosses all the bridges once and the goal is to get back to where you started. But Euler didn't know about quantum mechanics and it is possible to cross two bridges at the same time , the same way an electron passes through both slits in the double slit experiment. So in the real world you can set up a Konigsberg bridge with electrons instead of people because humans have such a short wavelength. It is possible to pass through the bridges one time each and arrive back at the starting point. In the classical picture of the seven bridges with the island, you just go across bridge A, then go across CD as a wave and then across G, then cross EB-F as a wave and you end up where you started and you only crossed each bridge one time.
"The study of Euler's works will remain the best school for the different fields of mathematics, and nothing else can replace it". - Carl Friedrich Gauss "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all". - Pierre-Simon Laplace
That is not true though. Euler is overrated. He didn't discover really anything. All mathematics was being used in the old world before euler or gauss, etc...
@@TheBluePhoenix008 Wow, are you that slow. The great civilizations all throughout ancient Africa. The great South Asian/Indian astronomers who predicted astrophysics without modern technology etc🤷
@@calicoesblue4703Show the papers with the differential equations, G. Every civilisation had the ability to compile a calendar and study the motion of celestial bodies. None put them in math.
There was literally a rush to not name everything after Euler they named many things after the second person to discover it after Euler there should be a wiki page for that
I am so thrilled to hear this name everytime it comes up! A man of faith and his profound love mathematics; he has been an inspiration to me throughout my college and university and even as I encourage and tutor students this day ❤
We all admire Euler. I am a physicist: his name is everywhere. One of the first "advanced" thing we learn is the "Euler-Lagange" equations in Newtonian mechanics. The fact that the laws of physics can be derived from minimizing a so-called "Lagrangian" is almost a universal law of physics we owe originally to the collaboration between Lagrange and Euler although a principle of that sort was first thought by Maupertius and even Fermat. He was a man of unparallel genius and also a man who had an intuition for formulae a little like Ramanujan. (The standard model is based on a monstrous Lagrangian: our best understanding of physics minus gravity)
The number e is shorthand for Euler Number. He got a number named after him. Then there is Euler Mascheroni Constant or the Euler Constant so numbers got named after him twice.
@@kazedcat And for what I understand he was the one that discovered the taylor series of the number e. This is often overlooked and was the key for him to find the relationship with e and trigonometry through the imaginary number
@@KonkyPlonky Ramanujan was kind of an "idiot" savant. (Very huge quotation mark here and on the "low" later). It is reported that Euler had a "low" verbal IQ compared to his stratospheric math IQ. He was often the target of cruel jokes by Voltaire whose tongue was extremely sharp.
I think you forgot one thing to mention. He also tried to prove the Maupertuis’s principle inherited from the Fermat’s derivation of least principle from Snell’s law. He had consumed a lot of time to express it with lots of difficulties. But later due to the help with young Lagrange’s solving, he was able to prove it to the equivalence with Newton’s second law of motion.
I really respect Euler’s dedication to doing mathematics. Even while being blind, he still moves on from his setback and does mathematics despite it being much more difficult to do.
I think it is adaptability. If you close your eyes you have less information to process and it is easier to focus. He was a genius and extremely resilient to be able to do most calculations by head.
Lev Pontryagin, the brilliant Russian mathematician known for his work on topology, algebra, control theory and other areas of mathematics was totally blind since the age of 14
Pontryagin was an absolute G. My dad used to tell me about a friend of his who traveled to Moscow on a students' trip to see Pontryagin hold a lecture. The guy fleshed out incredibly complex mathematics for 5-hours straight, completely blind. I believe he also got his PHD just sitting in a chair, no pen, no paper and just going off for hours on end, hundreds upon hundreds of equations, not forgetting a single thing.
10:59 Euler getting humbled by fluid mechanics of all things is the most poetic thing ever since his teacher was none other than Bernoulli, whose fluid laws we still study today.
Thank you so much Newsthink for making this video. I remember I commented on your channel to make a video on Sir Leonhard Euler. I am grateful for the amount of knowledge this channel is sharing about mathematicians. I am grateful for this video
Very interesting documentary! I liked it very much, especially the chronological way in which you have showcased Euler’s life and main events! For future reference, for such documentaries, I would emphasize more on the ending of the story! I think it was an abrupt transition at the end, just for the sponsorship section of the video, not ending the video on a more positive note, hinting to what would’ve been the present without Euler’s devotion to math!
Amazing…..going to Bazel in February. I had heard of Euler in his studies. That he figured out so many things on his own…I struggle to apply what he has found. As an engineer and a pilot….I know about fluid dynamics. But I am a mere user of his thoughts and findings. The very thought that he actually figured it out is amazing. Thank you for sharing!
It was great to hear that he went blind later in life of always used the excuse that being blind made algebra difficult and I have always found it to be so Cheers
I really respect how Euler continued to work after going blind at the age of 59, and worked right up to his death at age 76. But let's make it clear that Euler was not blind for most of his life or career. His most important work was completed before he went blind. A lot of his work was published years after it was written.
Tremendous! I didn't know any of this about Euler's life. Learning and using Euler's equation in fluid mechanics, I couldn't imagine how rich his life really was!
Euler is the master of all of us, no Gauss, no Euclid, and of course no Newton, Euler is the most relevant figure of History of Mathematics, I am so humble about all his work that is rare that I approach to his work directly becouse almost everything that you can imagine in nowadays mathematics or Euler started it or Euler developed enoght to be innecesary write more about it. Anyway we should read Euler.
Amazing, I have almost seen all your videos and wondering these couple of days as to why you missed Euler. And here it is on my Android phone at 3 a m half a globe away in Addis Ababa. Synchronicity ?
He was discussing about the newly discovered planets with his colleagues before collapsing. The video made him an old riteree in a solitary. The video didnt mention the beautiful eulogy "he ceased to calculate and to live". And I think those are beautiful end life of a remarkable person who once walk on this planet amongst us.
I always find your videos engaging and entertaining, providing an "executive summary" on a variety of subjects. The presentation supported by factual research makes it that much better . Interesting side note, in reviewing comments on this video, I noticed your single response - at time of posting this comment, was one referring to your jacket. Had to laugh.
In order to appreciate the vasta amount of mathematical work Euler published I just let you know that all his works are still today being published and they fill 80 volumes!
Wow, so nice that this video in 5 days has already got 180000 views. Euler unfortunately is not as known by the general public as Einstein or Newton, but he certainly was one of the greatest geniuses of humanity (I would dare to say in the top 5) and we have a lot to thank him
There should be a movie about him. You feel empowered and loving maths and physics when you learn about someone like Euler. Slow down the number of movies about WWII scientists.
A great genius. People know more about Newton and Einstein, perhaps just because they appear more in popular media. Of the "17 equations that changed the world" (Ian Stewart), Euler was credited with two. And if not for marvellous Navier-Stokes equation out there, Euler's equation for fluid dynamic is already good - it is so intuitive and very applicable.
Your videos serve to confirm that we are indeed not all born as equals. I would be beyond delighted to possess the naturally gifted minds of such subjects. Alas.
Gravity is genrally towards the centres of two objects. So I think W =mgsin(x) where x is the angle between the horizontal plane and the level of tilt on the pipe. at time (11:35). This will then account for the vertical component of the pressure as a result of the weight of the water. Thus by Newton's 2nd law we can find the total pressure differential as a function of the weight of the water and the diameter of the pipe
I heard a qoute a while back and ir goes: "If you think you discovered something, check if euler got to it first" This is a great testament to how much Euler has done, I unironically think He did more than Newton
Thank you for putting so much work into your video. It was refreshing to hear the words pronounced correctly with emphasis put on the right syllables and proper use of punctuation. It is so distracting when you have to listen to these trashy synthetic readers - as if the video means only a paycheck, and the content is of little value.
As a telecommunication engineering student, I couldn't even imagine doing calculations without Euler's identity. It would've been too painful without his simplification.
My favourite Euler fact is that he came second in a shipbuilding design problem only losing to guy who is known today as the the father of naval architecture.
Well.. for the record, I too had self-discovered the proof of insolvability of certain connecting the dots problem and it exactly matches Euler's proof (all dots except for any two of them should have even degrees). Anyway, too much of boasting. It was an excellent video with superb narration.
You could still change the world. Thinking about others is not productive. If you have a passion, find a niche, and try to build knowledge at that niche. I don't think I could do what he did. But I think I can make my research area a little bit better.
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Euler is the Beethoven of Mathematics.
It is said that they've managed to compile a whole volume of mathematical discoveries from what's left in his room after his death.
And he is considered the most prolific mathematician of all time.
Beethoven is the Euler of music.
@@HTOP1982as a pianist i much rather prefer tchaikovsky and tbh i don't really see beethoven in solo recitals
The point is, Euler stays the GOAT of mathematics nonetheless @imqx.
@imqx. you ever noticed that no one ever sees Beethoven and Eminem in the same place, at the same time?
@@HTOP1982ok
When I was taking my masters in mathematics, I realized just how big his influence was that I consider him my mathematics hero.
Heyyo, got a question, dym?
If I pursue a career in mathematics or physics, is it possible for me to develop or discover new theories that challenge existing knowledge or revolutionize our understanding of the universe?
@ Yes. There are tons of open problems in mathematics and physics. Some problems are lesser known than others just because they’re in more obscure disciplines (obscure to the average person) but nonetheless important and revolutionary.
Hero? God, he is a fricking God.
@@ksofficerofficer7858absolutely. Like there are so many problems in mathematics and physics. If your not just spitting bs then you can easily develop new theories. The only thing that matters is it should be consistent, it doesn't have to exactly satisfy the previous theory. General theory of relativity doesn't disprove Newton's laws of motion. General theory in low velocity is Newton's laws. It just extended it. So, if the discovery is factual then nothing else matters.
Brilliant man. If i'm not mistaken, Euler regarded the Bridges of Konigsberg problem as trivial and wondered why it was a problem at all 😂. And graph theory was born.
Every problem is trivial with the right tools
@@theguythatcomentbut those tools didn’t exist and he created them, which is why it’s so funny
Yes, you are wrong. And "trivial" has a different meaning in mathematics. Even "trivial" problems may be insoluble or insoluble in human lifetimes.
I've always wondered about the 7 bridges of Konigsberg, since in the problem a human crosses all the bridges once and the goal is to get back to where you started. But Euler didn't know about quantum mechanics and it is possible to cross two bridges at the same time , the same way an electron passes through both slits in the double slit experiment. So in the real world you can set up a Konigsberg bridge with electrons instead of people because humans have such a short wavelength. It is possible to pass through the bridges one time each and arrive back at the starting point. In the classical picture of the seven bridges with the island, you just go across bridge A, then go across CD as a wave and then across G, then cross EB-F as a wave and you end up where you started and you only crossed each bridge one time.
"The study of Euler's works will remain the best school for the different fields of mathematics, and nothing else can replace it". - Carl Friedrich Gauss
"Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all". - Pierre-Simon Laplace
Says Gauss, the other dude who changed multiple fields in physics.
That is not true though. Euler is overrated. He didn't discover really anything. All mathematics was being used in the old world before euler or gauss, etc...
@calicoesblue4703 and your proof for that is?
@@TheBluePhoenix008 Wow, are you that slow. The great civilizations all throughout ancient Africa. The great South Asian/Indian astronomers who predicted astrophysics without modern technology etc🤷
@@calicoesblue4703Show the papers with the differential equations, G. Every civilisation had the ability to compile a calendar and study the motion of celestial bodies. None put them in math.
This has got to be the best video on Euler. Thank you
It's AI generated.
No it isn't
@dannybodros5180 she is literally in the video talking about Euler. How can it be AI generated? You must be special! 😅
Happy new year. Thanks for the great videos!
Thank you so much, very kind of you!
Euler discovered and created so much mathematics that there's literally a Wikipedia page JUST for listing the things named after and discovered by him
Bro isn't a gigachad blud is a quettachad
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There was literally a rush to not name everything after Euler they named many things after the second person to discover it after Euler there should be a wiki page for that
I am so thrilled to hear this name everytime it comes up! A man of faith and his profound love mathematics; he has been an inspiration to me throughout my college and university and even as I encourage and tutor students this day ❤
I suppose you mean "every time".
We all admire Euler.
I am a physicist: his name is everywhere. One of the first "advanced" thing we learn is the "Euler-Lagange" equations in Newtonian mechanics. The fact that the laws of physics can be derived from minimizing a so-called "Lagrangian" is almost a universal law of physics we owe originally to the collaboration between Lagrange and Euler although a principle of that sort was first thought by Maupertius and even Fermat.
He was a man of unparallel genius and also a man who had an intuition for formulae a little like Ramanujan.
(The standard model is based on a monstrous Lagrangian: our best understanding of physics minus gravity)
The number e is shorthand for Euler Number. He got a number named after him. Then there is Euler Mascheroni Constant or the Euler Constant so numbers got named after him twice.
I agree somehow you get the same kind of vibe from him and Ramanujan, while at the same time Euler feels closer to Gauss
@@kazedcat And for what I understand he was the one that discovered the taylor series of the number e. This is often overlooked and was the key for him to find the relationship with e and trigonometry through the imaginary number
@@KonkyPlonky Ramanujan was kind of an "idiot" savant. (Very huge quotation mark here and on the "low" later).
It is reported that Euler had a "low" verbal IQ compared to his stratospheric math IQ. He was often the target of cruel jokes by Voltaire whose tongue was extremely sharp.
@@jceepf Probably you are right about that, but I was more referring to his mathematical work
I think you forgot one thing to mention. He also tried to prove the Maupertuis’s principle inherited from the Fermat’s derivation of least principle from Snell’s law. He had consumed a lot of time to express it with lots of difficulties. But later due to the help with young Lagrange’s solving, he was able to prove it to the equivalence with Newton’s second law of motion.
I really respect Euler’s dedication to doing mathematics. Even while being blind, he still moves on from his setback and does mathematics despite it being much more difficult to do.
I think it is adaptability. If you close your eyes you have less information to process and it is easier to focus. He was a genius and extremely resilient to be able to do most calculations by head.
My Favorite Mathematician
Lev Pontryagin, the brilliant Russian mathematician known for his work on topology, algebra, control theory and other areas of mathematics was totally blind since the age of 14
Pontryagin was an absolute G.
My dad used to tell me about a friend of his who traveled to Moscow on a students' trip to see Pontryagin hold a lecture.
The guy fleshed out incredibly complex mathematics for 5-hours straight, completely blind.
I believe he also got his PHD just sitting in a chair, no pen, no paper and just going off for hours on end, hundreds upon hundreds of equations, not forgetting a single thing.
I have a Euler in my genealogy frim Switzerland married Keller in USA around 1750
Cindy...I don't know what you studied but your passion for maths and its history is remarkable! Euler passionately narrated!!!
10:59
Euler getting humbled by fluid mechanics of all things is the most poetic thing ever since his teacher was none other than Bernoulli, whose fluid laws we still study today.
I think it was more of he not having an engineer's mindset. He didn't adequately choose the materials.
Thank you so much Newsthink for making this video. I remember I commented on your channel to make a video on Sir Leonhard Euler. I am grateful for the amount of knowledge this channel is sharing about mathematicians. I am grateful for this video
One of "The king" of all mathematician and also one of "the pure and true natural" genius mind in all humankind
there's SO many things named after Euler it's insane what that man can do
Very interesting documentary! I liked it very much, especially the chronological way in which you have showcased Euler’s life and main events!
For future reference, for such documentaries, I would emphasize more on the ending of the story! I think it was an abrupt transition at the end, just for the sponsorship section of the video, not ending the video on a more positive note, hinting to what would’ve been the present without Euler’s devotion to math!
Amazing…..going to Bazel in February. I had heard of Euler in his studies. That he figured out so many things on his own…I struggle to apply what he has found. As an engineer and a pilot….I know about fluid dynamics. But I am a mere user of his thoughts and findings. The very thought that he actually figured it out is amazing. Thank you for sharing!
It was great to hear that he went blind later in life of always used the excuse that being blind made algebra difficult and I have always found it to be so
Cheers
Yessss finally, an episode on the 🐐
I really respect how Euler continued to work after going blind at the age of 59, and worked right up to his death at age 76. But let's make it clear that Euler was not blind for most of his life or career. His most important work was completed before he went blind. A lot of his work was published years after it was written.
quite a few scholars went blind later in life it seems. ibn kathir I think also went blind who wrote the most read tafsir of quran majid today.
Tremendous! I didn't know any of this about Euler's life. Learning and using Euler's equation in fluid mechanics, I couldn't imagine how rich his life really was!
Euler is the master of all of us, no Gauss, no Euclid, and of course no Newton, Euler is the most relevant figure of History of Mathematics, I am so humble about all his work that is rare that I approach to his work directly becouse almost everything that you can imagine in nowadays mathematics or Euler started it or Euler developed enoght to be innecesary write more about it. Anyway we should read Euler.
Wow. Just wow. What a man.
Congratulations on surpassing 1 million subscribers.
Wow i never knew he was blind..
Genius.
That jacket looks so good on you! Love the color
I love hearing about the revolutionary works of ages gone by.
He didn't become completely blind until the last years of his life, so the title is a bit misleading. Trust me, I'm a big fan!
6:23 Anyone else notice the ghost undo the curtain, or is it just me?
What is it
it was just a loose binding
@@ekananda9591 how did you notice that 😱😱
Such astute observation! Your mind is razor sharp
We all saw it; didn’t We…?
Amazing, I have almost seen all your videos and wondering these couple of days as to why you missed Euler. And here it is on my Android phone at 3 a m half a globe away in Addis Ababa. Synchronicity ?
He is master of us all ~ Pierre Simon Laplace
He was discussing about the newly discovered planets with his colleagues before collapsing. The video made him an old riteree in a solitary. The video didnt mention the beautiful eulogy "he ceased to calculate and to live". And I think those are beautiful end life of a remarkable person who once walk on this planet amongst us.
Your voice is perfect and soothing to deliver Science and documentaries ❤
Nice, love the math vids. You should also make videos on other math prodigies like Abel and Galois
13 children!?!? Seem multiplication was Euler's specialty!
I always find your videos engaging and entertaining, providing an "executive summary" on a variety of subjects. The presentation supported by factual research makes it that much better
. Interesting side note, in reviewing comments on this video, I noticed your single response - at time of posting this comment, was one referring to your jacket. Had to laugh.
Besides being one of the giants in math, he was a guy with a big heart.
Euler was a great mathematician who became blind and yet continued with great Mathematics
His work is omnipresent in math. Truly a unique genius
been waiting for this one what a treat!!!!
As time passes his work become more valuable !
Thanks for this! I admire his dedication!!!!!
Love your approach on Euler's life truly inspirational ❤
Thank u for considering my request ❤
What an amazing story teller you are!
Another masterclass by Cindy. Thank you.
In order to appreciate the vasta amount of mathematical work Euler published I just let you know that all his works are still today being published and they fill 80 volumes!
Pam’s perfect pronunciation of the scientists’ names referred to on the awesome documentary 🎉
There is this general trend that influential physicists and mathematicians often suffer from lack of some basic needs towards the end of their time.
Apparently he said now there is less to distract me from my work when he went blind
Hmm yes the narrator said that in the video.
Wow, so nice that this video in 5 days has already got 180000 views. Euler unfortunately is not as known by the general public as Einstein or Newton, but he certainly was one of the greatest geniuses of humanity (I would dare to say in the top 5) and we have a lot to thank him
what a legend we had i did not even know about this dude.
Lovely video, lots of interesting historical and mathematical details.
There should be a movie about him. You feel empowered and loving maths and physics when you learn about someone like Euler. Slow down the number of movies about WWII scientists.
He's one the best mathematician and the most kindest.
This is the only channel I come to use scientific stories to calm my mind.
I love this guy!
Please make more biography videos like this, of old scientists and mathematicians. Hopefully narrated by Cindy.
Awesome video! Much appreciated 💜
A great genius. People know more about Newton and Einstein, perhaps just because they appear more in popular media.
Of the "17 equations that changed the world" (Ian Stewart), Euler was credited with two. And if not for marvellous Navier-Stokes equation out there, Euler's equation for fluid dynamic is already good - it is so intuitive and very applicable.
Outstanding presentation! Thank you for sharing.
The greatest mathematician to ever live!
Your videos serve to confirm that we are indeed not all born as equals. I would be beyond delighted to possess the naturally gifted minds of such subjects. Alas.
Cue the eugenics...
Love your channel. Big fan. ❤ 🔥
Excellent presentation!
Gravity is genrally towards the centres of two objects. So I think W =mgsin(x) where x is the angle between the horizontal plane and the level of tilt on the pipe. at time (11:35). This will then account for the vertical component of the pressure as a result of the weight of the water. Thus by Newton's 2nd law we can find the total pressure differential as a function of the weight of the water and the diameter of the pipe
Euler is some kind of Napoleon of mathematics. You will be amazed how many things were/are the results of his works
Thankyou for this video. ❤
Euler is the goat🗣️🔥
Very nice, loving it.
I love how according to your channel (i.e. the video titles), both Euler and Gauss are the greatest mathematician ever. 😂 It's kinda true.
One of my fav mathematicians
I heard a qoute a while back and ir goes: "If you think you discovered something, check if euler got to it first" This is a great testament to how much Euler has done, I unironically think He did more than Newton
Amazing video! "Curtain dropping" good 😉
I wish there was a movie about Euler
Great person , so clever, ama siang math talent .Thx God
The master of us all.
Thank you for putting so much work into your video. It was refreshing to hear the words pronounced correctly with emphasis put on the right syllables and proper use of punctuation. It is so distracting when you have to listen to these trashy synthetic readers - as if the video means only a paycheck, and the content is of little value.
Thank for the knowledge ❤❤
I hope you do John Wallis as next video please, i love your content espacially about the lives of great mathematicians , my idoles
I never knew Euler went blind. I can never decide if Newton or Euler is my favorite mathematician. I suppose I don't have to decide.
His works help to reach to next level,so we physicists used math as torch to search new hidden things on phyiscs
I just watch one of the longest ads... brilliant.
As a telecommunication engineering student, I couldn't even imagine doing calculations without Euler's identity. It would've been too painful without his simplification.
Right. A completely erroneous simplification. But you don't care about that...
The King of Mathematics
If he was king then what was Euclid, Pythagoras,... ?
اويلر عبقري و انا معجبه به جدا ❤❤❤
I wonder how you did not mention anything about his work on magic squares and knight tours
My favourite Euler fact is that he came second in a shipbuilding design problem only losing to guy who is known today as the the father of naval architecture.
at 9:36 it's the icosahedron that owns 20 faces
Amazing video
Ya era hora que hablen de este genio
Well.. for the record, I too had self-discovered the proof of insolvability of certain connecting the dots problem and it exactly matches Euler's proof (all dots except for any two of them should have even degrees). Anyway, too much of boasting. It was an excellent video with superb narration.
His genius is beyond comprehension.
Can you do a video about Napoleon Bonaparte next?
Doesn't someone has some insecurities they need to work out?
@ what?
Its kinda depressing knowing I could never attain such brilliance...😢
I find it inspiring to know what we humans are capable of!
You could still change the world. Thinking about others is not productive. If you have a passion, find a niche, and try to build knowledge at that niche. I don't think I could do what he did. But I think I can make my research area a little bit better.