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My name is Andrew and I'm fascinated by mathematics. I obtained a Master's in Statistics and tutored / lectured for about 5 years. I found history to be fundamental in driving my interest in the subjects I was learning, and hope that the content I create motivates those who watch it.
You'll notice my history videos always begin with "A (very) Brief...". The reason I slap on "(very)" is because the body of works for many of the people I cover are vast. To me, giving insight into their lives is only the very tip of the iceberg, and there's still so much more to learn through their work.
I'm currently on an irregular schedule, but expect to get a video out every 1.5 months - 3 months after the date of my last upload.
You'll notice my history videos always begin with "A (very) Brief...". The reason I slap on "(very)" is because the body of works for many of the people I cover are vast. To me, giving insight into their lives is only the very tip of the iceberg, and there's still so much more to learn through their work.
I'm currently on an irregular schedule, but expect to get a video out every 1.5 months - 3 months after the date of my last upload.
A Brief History of Alan Turing (Imitation Game)
In this episode, we cover the history of Alan Turing, A 20th-century English polymath, who is considered by many to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. Turing was a pivotal codebreaking figure during WWII, and due to this, much of his cryptologic was unknown to the public until 2012.
Sources:
docs.google.com/document/d/1F56ki3xKgwWo1NKHEDYChIlFWX8p8T3-_ilcY7mPpjk/edit?usp=sharing
DISCORD ►► discord.gg/Jd3tCeK
PATREON ►► www.patreon.com/moderndaymath
-- TIMESTAMPS --
0:00 Intro screen
0:10 Intro
0:38 Early Life
3:16 Undergrad + Gaussian paper
3:49 Computable Numbers and the Decision Problem
5:31 Church-Turing Thesis
6:33 Princeton + Pre-PhD work
7:20 WWII: The Bombe
12:03 Secure voice systems
13:16 Computers and Algorithms
14:58 Imitation Game
15:40 Morphogenesis
16:30 Quantum
17:06 Personal
18:16 Christopher Morcom
19:20 Joan Clarke
19:54 Conviction
21:21 Death
22:35 Legacy
24:38 Outro
Sources:
docs.google.com/document/d/1F56ki3xKgwWo1NKHEDYChIlFWX8p8T3-_ilcY7mPpjk/edit?usp=sharing
DISCORD ►► discord.gg/Jd3tCeK
PATREON ►► www.patreon.com/moderndaymath
-- TIMESTAMPS --
0:00 Intro screen
0:10 Intro
0:38 Early Life
3:16 Undergrad + Gaussian paper
3:49 Computable Numbers and the Decision Problem
5:31 Church-Turing Thesis
6:33 Princeton + Pre-PhD work
7:20 WWII: The Bombe
12:03 Secure voice systems
13:16 Computers and Algorithms
14:58 Imitation Game
15:40 Morphogenesis
16:30 Quantum
17:06 Personal
18:16 Christopher Morcom
19:20 Joan Clarke
19:54 Conviction
21:21 Death
22:35 Legacy
24:38 Outro
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A Brief History of Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber)
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In this episode, we cover the history of Ted Kaczynski, an American domestic terrorist, philosopher and mathematician, most notable for being the Unabomber. Back in the '60s, Kaczynski did research on boundary functions before quitting and becoming a hermit in Montana, where he would eventually begin sending out bombs to people. Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1MJZtrMZkiUqiK9wrcIO6K9PNj8veV...
A Brief History of Évariste Galois
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In this episode, we cover the history of Évariste Galois, a 19th century mathematician, notable for his fundamental contributions to group theory, who only spent about 5-6 years doing mathematics before his untimely death at the hands of a duel when he was just 20 years old. Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1tvYequODrvfxL68AJTN86RuyWUWVjoW3FBctHW6KuuU/edit?usp=sharing DISCORD ►► discord.gg/J...
A Brief History of John Nash (A Beautiful Mind)
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In this episode, we cover the history of John Forbes Nash, a 20th and 21st century American mathematician who made fundamental contributions differential geometry, game theory, and partial differential equations. He got diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1959, and learned overtime how to deal with his delusions by essentially ignoring them. Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1XFifcJjRQ1r5A4ztpZWj...
A (very) Brief History of Emmy Noether
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In this episode, we cover the history of Amalie Emmy Noether, a 20th century German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to modern algebra as we know it today. Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1oT2vReb-9VOhde6r2-CgHBymE5Hfl2FXaYXfqgMrstw/edit?usp=sharing DISCORD ►► discord.gg/Jd3tCeK PATREON ►► www.patreon.com/moderndaymath TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro screen 0:10 Intro 0:47 Early Life ...
A (very) Brief History of René Descartes
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In this episode, we cover the history of René Descartes, a 17th century French mathematician and philosopher who is considered both the father of analytic geometry and modern philosophy. EDIT: When talking about Isaac Beeckman, I meant to say "modern atomism" ( 3:35 ), as "atomism" itself was developed in 5th century BC by Democritus and Leucippus. Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1fCKi6owXV...
A (very) Brief History of James Clerk Maxwell
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In this episode, we cover the history of James Clerk Maxwell, a 19th century Scottish mathematician and physicist who was most notable for his immense developments in electricity and magentism. Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1pOlvDTjLciRaKCDHfo9FNQk8AuMQehVDwTiyXQHQfME/edit?usp=sharing DISCORD ►► discord.gg/Jd3tCeK PATREON ►► www.patreon.com/moderndaymath TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro screen 0:10 ...
A (very) Brief History of Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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NOTE: The intro screen says Lagrange, but this is indeed Cauchy! In this episode, we cover the history of Augustin-Louis Cauchy, a 19th century French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who was notable for developing a great majority of the foundations of complex analysis, and is only second to Euler in terms of mathematical productivity. I go a bit deeper into the mathematics in this video...
A (very) Brief History of Pierre-Simon Laplace
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In this episode, we cover the history of Pierre-Simon Laplace, a French polymath who was pivotal in developments in physics (e.g. Mecanique Celeste) and mathematics (e.g. differential equations, probability theory). I go a bit deeper into the mathematics in this video, but still the primary focus is on Laplace's history. Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/16KLGLqCI9GvXYU17YcLxMhUTmA8yuOYf-mJk3...
A (very) Brief History of Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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In this episode, we cover the history of Joseph-Louis Lagrange, an Italian-born French mathematician who was one of the founders of the calculus of variations and developer of Lagrangian Mechanics. As per usual, I don't go too deeply into the mathematics, focusing primarily on the history. NOTE: The Curie's won the Nobel Prize, not the Nobel "Peace" Prize. Apologies for the misspeech. Sources: ...
A (very) Brief History of Pierre de Fermat
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In this episode, we cover the history of Pierre de Fermat, a French lawyer and mathematician who was highly influential in the creation of calculus and made substantial contributions to number theory, most notably Fermat's Last Theorem. Considering that mathematics was a hobby for him, he made quite an impact. As per usual, I don't go too deeply into the mathematics, focusing primarily on the h...
A (very) Brief History of Srinivasa Ramanujan
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In this episode, we cover the history of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician who made substantial contributions to analytic number theory, infinite series and continued fractions. For his short time on this earth, it's pretty wild how many results he produced in his notebooks, and the fact that active areas of research sprouted from them, with mathematicians spending a good part of the...
A (very) Brief History of the Complex Plane
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In this episode, we cover the history of the complex plane, the geometric representation of complex numbers. With many applications to areas like physics and probability, complex numbers show up quite often, and can also simplify seemingly impossible calculations. Though intuitive to us at this point, it took over 1000 years from the first sighting of a complex number to actually be accepted an...
A (very) Brief History of Alexander Grothendieck
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In this episode, we cover the history of 20th century mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, most notable for being the father of modern algebraic geometry. He is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th century. As per usual, I don't go too deeply into the mathematics, largely just covering his history. Hope you enjoy! NOTE (2022-06-08): The photo I claim to be Léon Motch...
A (very) Brief History of Kurt Gödel
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In this episode, we cover the history of 20th century Austro-Hungarian mathematician, logician, and philosopher Kurt Gödel, considered to be one of the most significant logicians in history. He is most notable for his incompleteness theorems, which showed in any axiomatic mathematical system, there are propositions that cannot be proven or disproved within the axioms of the system. As per usual...
A (very) Brief History of Bertrand Russell
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A (very) Brief History of Bertrand Russell
A (very) Brief History of Charles Ehresmann
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A (very) Brief History of Charles Ehresmann
A (very) Brief History of David Hilbert
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A (very) Brief History of David Hilbert
A (very) Brief History of John von Neumann
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A (very) Brief History of John von Neumann
A (very) Brief History of Henri Lebesgue
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A (very) Brief History of Henri Lebesgue
A (very) Brief History of Anders Johann Lexell
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A (very) Brief History of Anders Johann Lexell
A (very) Brief History of Henri Poincaré
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A (very) Brief History of Henri Poincaré
A (very) Brief History of Bernhard Riemann
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A (very) Brief History of Bernhard Riemann
A (very) Brief History of Carl Friedrich Gauss
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A (very) Brief History of Carl Friedrich Gauss
A (very) Brief History of the Bernoulli Family
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A (very) Brief History of the Bernoulli Family
A (very) Brief History of Leonhard Euler
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A (very) Brief History of Leonhard Euler
CRASH COURSE #4 - Special Sets and Intervals (continued)
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CRASH COURSE #4 - Special Sets and Intervals (continued)
CRASH COURSE #3 - Special Sets and Intervals
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CRASH COURSE #3 - Special Sets and Intervals
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Well done!
This is the most worthy video I’ve seen on CZcams in a while. Many thanks. 🙏
Thank you for this video. If Riemann had lived, he would probably have discovered general relativity and eclipsed Einstein. Like Mozart, all I can say is what a damn shame he died so young.
I really like your videos, but please! Reduce the volume of the classical music. It's overwhelming your voice-over.
Where to get more details about, how Laplace derived Laplace transform?
The way you pronounce Legendre at 3:05 ist crazy 💀
Von neuman boundary conditions...
You don't speak French so it's fine just to pronounce place names in English, like Paris as pa-ris rather than pa-ree. But thanks for this video.
what about a video on the russian alexander friedmann the one to correct a mistake of einstein
폰 노이만은 지적 공리의 선택을 받고 많은 것을 선험적으로 이해했습니다.
Thank you 🙏 I found listening to this really inspiring.
0:53: I used to think this was Beethoven 😂
"He was born into a Jewish family" i have to admit and having seen and read about people in physics and math, that Jewish are exceptional at math compared to some other races. And no its not due to nurture, its mostly geneology.
Do you think he had autism or Asperger’s?
I’m not gay, but DAMN.
Such geniuses are very interesting. If you took our math and science problems and brought them to the 18th or 19thC these guys would probably be able to see solutions we never thought of. The extraordinary power of a different *because of culture etc* perspective.
One of the greatest thinkers of all times.
He who closes his eyes devises wickedness,
Well, actually he was Italian, born in Turin in 1736, he became french after marring a French woman in 1792 at the age of 56. He used french names (more than one, for example "De la Grange" that he abandoned during french revolution because nobles had the tendency to die guillottined in that period). His birth name was Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia.
Underrated
Only germans and americans are intelligent in that world
Very interesting. Thanks.
21:21
really good video!!! what a great human being, and imagine what more he could have done with a full lifetime!!!
A little correction at 6:30 -by the end of 1927 von Neumann had only published 4 mathematics papers not 12, and by 1929 he had published 5, not 32
I love mathematics, it’s the way to liberation!
RIP Ted Kaczynski
Gotta do better than him now, think he found the value of a life while facing mortality, or believed in something twords the end? Truly a complex soul and intelligence of the likes of ,Gauss, Euler, Davinci, and Newton. RIP
Any history of Galois life is brief as his life was. With the benefit of hindsight the reasons for why he was killed seem to futile now.
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My father name is Aston Russell and my name is Marcus Russell bless up family 😂❤
Hilbert: Such a mathematical force. Why to complication of background music that just distracts from the text that you are reading.
Einstein, literally stole ideas from him!
Henri Poincare (1854-1912)
French's prononciation isn't bad. Very interesting for us. Thanks for uploading!
Gauss, Riemann, Dedekind, Hilbert, ... giants in mathematics. Goes to show what you can accomplish if you put your mind to it, and not waste time watching tv.
For a more intimate look at his life derek Jacobi does a superb job on the docudrama Breaking The Code, available on uTube.
excellent content, thank you! please ask German and French natives how to pronounce these great mathematicians’ names as they earned to be, and yes your comments are sufficient so that no unrelated music background is needed.
Great but you missed the movie and impact of it in his life.
You didn't mentioned the copplestone-bertrand debate of existence of God
Бил Гейтс его сын?..похож..Пентагон своих не бросает....задача куда они улетели..уверен на Марс..ночным рейсом звездолетом Илона Маска ...
izvrsno!
13:10 You say Léon Motchane, but display a picture of Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer has no relevance to this section, so this seems to simply be a mistake.
14:24 Same mistake again
Not really a great mathematician. More of an intellectual celebrity.
The most amazing life of any mathematician. Only worked on mathematics for four years. Couldn't pass university entrance exams. Much of his work done in prison. Almost none of his work was published. Died at 20. Largely forgotten for a century after his death. Yet he was one of the top handful of mathematicians of the 19th century.
Thats crazy man. Good explanation.
French pronunciation is really annoying, it's incongruent with English, please don't do this in another video, it throws everything off.
Poincaré was an arrogant prick, whom at the same time looked like a chipmunk or something reminiscent of a rabbit, rather than a human.
He tried so hard to look tough in his photos, yet failed so badly. Lol. Also, I think pince-nez were way out of style during Poincaré's time, I haven't really seen any of his contemporaries wear them in their photos.
He also looked like a wannabe Tesla in his youth, not a good look.
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