A (very) Brief History of Srinivasa Ramanujan
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- čas přidán 30. 01. 2021
- 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 20th century trying to prove his results.
As per usual, I don't go too deeply into the mathematics, focusing primarily on the history of the Ramanujan.
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Watched the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity, and found his life story to be truly sad. It was always an uphill struggle for him to get appreciated, and he was descriminated against constantly. Add to that he died so young. I'm glad he was honoured with being made a fellow of the society, and that his name lives on forever. Totally deserved
Actually, sad life is common among great mathematicians and scientists. Evariste Galois, the founder of group theory, died aged 20 in a duel about a girl. Georg Cantor, the founder of set theory, spent a lot of time in mental asylums, as he faced harsh opposition to his theory and finally committed suicide. Kurt Godel, with his famous incompleteness theorems, at one point was convinced that everyone was trying to poison him and died from hunger... As Aristotle was saying: "There has never existed a great mind, without the touch of madness"...
@@ConnoisseurOfExistenceExcept Ramanujan wasn’t suffering from Madness🤷
I disagree, the "discrimination" seems to be exaggerated, after all he was voted in to the highest academic societies. His work was never stolen by the European mathematicians and they gave him his due honor and accolades. Moreover they bent over backwards to help him.
These brief history videos offer an *elite* intro to the history of math. Nice work
Great video. I remember coming across his formula for the approximation of pi in a calculus textbook and being absolutely staggered by it: how the hell could a human mind conceive of this? where did this come from? It's like he was a member of an advanced alien species just pretending to be human.
I'll never change my mind, that Cantor is the greatest mathematician and mind in general in history, yet Ramanujan now takes my personal #2. As someone on other documentary said about him, no other great mathematician of any time have learned so much mathematics on their own, no one comes even close.
@@jokercrazy999 Cantor is the founder of set theory, considered today as basis for all of mathematics. Even just that is already enough for him to be the greatest. But he was a person beyond any description. He spent all his life thinking about infinities, even though his ideas faced violent opposition and he was alone in his endeavours. He was described as 'corruptor of the youth' and many considered his ideas about many kinds of infinities as ridiculous, even though later the famous mathematician Hilbert said about him: "No one should expel us from the paradise that Cantor created for us". He wasn't scared to let his mind wonder in the deepest depths of mathematics, where no one has gone before him. To the point, where the depths of mathematics actually consumed him and he spent many of his late years in different mental asylums, finally taking his own life. As Aristotle said: "No great mind has ever existed without the touch of madness" and Nietzche: "If you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss starts staring back at you"...
It is Gauss though, the greatest mathematician of all time. Euler comes close
@@pinakichakraborty4495Naww, Ramanujan is the greatest Mathematician of all time. None other mathematician even comes close honestly 🤷
Ramanujan - The stress is on the second "A"!
Really enjoyed the video, great work buddy
Awesome video man! Keep up the good work
when you are making a video about Newton?
Keep up the good work my friend!!
Great video like always
A very nice video from a very good channel keep it up 👍👍
Great effort .... hat's off to u
Great work🔥
Keep up the good work!
concise and makes the point. Overall enjoyed the presentation. Thank you. I wish the narrater could have learned to say the names of the Indian cities etc more accurately. Somehow mispropounciation of a french word is considered ignorance, but the same does not apply to words in an Indian Language?
great video with wonderful naration
Ramanujan said he received formulas through revelation from Goddess.
Hardy and Littlewood were these poor guys who took all efforts to prove these truly hard formulas who are direct revelation of Goddess!!!
Ramanujan was just a medium between Goddess and Hardy
nahhh, his analytical side of his brain was highly developed, nothing todo with silly gods n goddesses
:) ramanujan is one of my favorite mathematicians. Thank you. Although ramanujan is pronounced raMANujan, with the stress on the second syllable.
Thanks for the tip on pronunciation. Pronouncing these names is often my weakpoint xD
No, he pronounced it correctly
I've heard mathematicians including Ken Ono in presentations as well as indians pronouncing it the way I described
@@ethanjensen7967 no it should be pronounce like
His name:-
✍️Sri-ni-va-sa
🗣️(𝘚𝘳𝘦𝘦-𝘯𝘦𝘦-𝘷𝘢𝘢-𝘴𝘶𝘩)
His surname:-
✍️Ra-ma-nu-Jan
🗣️𝘙𝘢𝘢-𝘮𝘢𝘢-𝘯𝘶-𝘫𝘶𝘩𝘯
Love from Tamil Nadu ❤
No entiendo inglés, pero de todas formas aprendo mucho con tus vídeos jeje
Bueno te gustan las matemáticas o como yo la historia 😅
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I understood my problem! I dint get the boss who encouraged the hobby like Ramanujan! Otherwise I would have…😂
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Do galois too
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Yes, community standards are an exemplary idea: that is what I was seeking from the narrator.
Music shouldn't play through the whole video.
It actually should though 🤷