A (very) Brief History of Carl Friedrich Gauss
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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2019
- In this episode of "A (very) Brief History of...", we cover Carl Friedrich Gauss. He was one of the most influential mathematicians to come out of the 19th century, being the first to give a proper proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
As per usual, this video isn't very math heavy, largely just focusing on his life. Hope you enjoy!
Note (2020-07-06): The photo of Gauss as a child is actually Ludwig van Beethoven as a child, circa 1783.
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I‘m studying mechanical engineering in my second semester and this guy‘s theorems turn up every other week in math class. Feels like he invented the entire thing!
Hey I'm also a mechanical engineering student 2nd semester 👋
And that's not even 1/100th of what he did.
In what courses?
@@sameehgamer8828 Math 2.
Came up especially often when it comes to integrals. So much so, the professor wrote a year every time after the title "Gauss' theorem (+Year it was published)" because there were so many.
Wth really?are u exaggerating?@@Helmutandmoshe
Grew up in poverty,proved revolutionary theorems while still a teen (at the same age most of us here are except all we do is beat It and trolling each other on CZcams) and continues into his old age;discovers the generalised FFT algorithm before fourier himself, Formulated a way to predict all natural processes with his Normal distribution , paved the way for the discovery and formulation of the electromagnétic spectrum a few years later by Maxwell not to mention these are ONLY the discoveries we know about. Despite his busy lifetime(understatement) still managed to be a successful,devoted and beloved family man. Knowing he still left college without a degree and then making a name for himself in the world of mathematics while not posessing any mathematical knightwood(at 25) is a big relief for those struggling with math. Man was an inspiration for sure.Gauss>>>>>>Euler.
Beloved family man, didn't want his children to pursue math because they would belittle his legacy. Hmmm..
Eh...?
Euler published the most math ever
So gauss doing it in earlier age and still couldn't come close to Euler achievement
Even gauss himself praised Euler to be better than him
Euler became blind,had his house burnt down,fever and yet averaged 1 mathematical paper per week solely through intuition and still getting corrected
Laplace himself said read read Euler he is the master of us all
Probably the biggest scientist ever, his name kept showing up from my early high school years to my late engineering classes
"Probably the biggest scientist ever" that would be Newton
And if you continue on in mathematics into graduate school, his name continues to pop up in realms that most scientists and engineers have never heard of. In mathematics, that's where he really changed the world - he is the top... awe inspiring.
@@fandibataineh4586 As a mathematician Newton is a joke compared, not only t Gauss, but even, to Euler. He is not in the conversation for the biggest scientist ever.
@@user-oz3vl4xd1k ignorant
@@user-oz3vl4xd1k You're wrong about that. Newton IS THE MOST IMPORTANT Scientist in classical mechanics. He basically established the entire segment of classical physics. "He's not in the conversation for the biggest scientist ever."
No laymen are aware of Gauss unless they have opted for their math or Physics classes during highschool or college grads. Newton is known by pretty much EVERYONE who had touched a science book.
The way he had invented calculus (please, stop saying it was Leibniz without a proper knowledge, they had beef and that we use Leibniz calculus in modern day mathematics but that doesn't mean Newton didn't come up with his own format of creating a new branch of mathematics.)
His bizarre idea of turning everything into a 'point' mass and then talk about all the possible different scenarios by making every large object smaller and turning small objects larger.
Yes, he might not be on the same level as Gauss was but calling him "Not in the conversation for the biggest scientist ever" is such a hypocritical, misjudged statement. Basically shows your awareness for the matter of fact.
The point I was trynna make was that, Gauss was simply better than Newton in every aspect of his field but when it comes to the most influential and popular figure; none can come close to Newton.
When I was in school a wrote a paper on him called "Carl Friedrich Gauss, the biggest Bauss"
Bauss reminds of Slim Thug's "Like a Boss" 🎶
May I the paper you wrote 😄
I don't think he was the most important mathematician of the XIX century. I think he was the most important of all time.
Wrong. Khwarizmi is better.
Leonhard Euler?
Newton
@@beautifulaffliction1742 Keep dreaming.
i dont think we should assign value to mathematicians. The reason being is that every mathematician in history builds up what the earlier mathematicians have built on. For example newton or leibniz coudnt have invented calculus if it werent for descartes. descartes couldnt have formulated algebraic connotations of the cartesian plane if it werent for renaissance mathematicans. they couldnt have done that without persian mathematicians like al khwarizmi and so on and so forth. however this is just my opinion and im open to debate.
Gauss solved a problem that stumped Euler. He also had a lot of unpublished stuff that would have given him priority of some discoveries
can u please tell me what that is? i want to learn and know
@@ruscul7155 Rus , here's the best I can do at the moment.Please read through to the final sentence.
"Euler may be the most influential mathematician who ever lived (though some would make him second to Euclid); he ranks #77 on Michael Hart's famous list of the Most Influential Persons in History. His colleagues called him "Analysis Incarnate." Laplace, famous for denying credit to fellow mathematicians, once said "Read Euler: he is our master in everything." His notations and methods in many areas are in use to this day. Euler was the most prolific mathematician in history and is often judged to be the best algorist of all time. Some scholars rank Euler's 1748 Introductio in analysin infinitorum above Descartes's Géométrie, Gauss' Disquisitiones, and even Newton's Principia Mathematica. (This brief summary can only touch on a few highlights of Euler's work. The ranking #4 may seem too low for this supreme mathematician, but Gauss succeeded at proving several theorems which had stumped Euler.)"
@@ruscul7155 Also FFTs; it was only discovered again during the cold war
But Euler too solved problems that stumped men from his past. One was the sum of reciprocals of squares (neither Leibniz nor any Bernoulli figured it out). He also once used a conjecture of Fermat to disprove another conjecture of Fermat (that's just freaking badass!).
Some may argue that Gauss is the more talented mathematician, but to me it's just the fact that mathematics was and still is improving.
@@jackhandma1011 Euler was probably the most prolific of the great mathematicians. Gauss might have just got lucky on those problems that stumped him : )
I firmly believe that Gauss is the most impressive human being who's ever lived on this planet
Yes same as me
Laughing in Tesla
Newton
@@andresrincon7240 Gauss could have easily understood all of Tesla's work, Tesla could have scarcely understood any of what Gauss did.
@@Helmutandmoshe why?
I love this series of mathematicians' lives.
Thank you for the upload.
Ah, even the mathematics of the first half of the 19th century were comfier thank the second half. In that famous portrait of Gauss he looks as if he's about to take the most comfortable nap of all time
A very brief and heartily thanks for making this video...💕💖
Were it NOT for that very annoying piano "music" !
Gauss- The Prince of Mathematics.
Thanks for this lovely presentation
0:54 this a (disputed) portrait of the 13 year old Beethoven (1783)
So that's where Halo's Gauss cannon came from!
Don't forget about the Gauss Turret or them naming a drink after him in Halo :P
Best game ever made
@@MrGaussFPV shooter+controller=disqualified as best game ever.
That's basic math.
The pc only versions came when they were already ancient. And it wasn't good enough to sell Windows Vista...
@@MrGaussFPV it definitely isn't but it is one of the best game universes ever created.
And gauss rifle from fallout!
Amazing video thank you
0:58
Bro that's a painting of Beethoven with 13 years old xdd, but amazing video (and music)!!
It is a honor to see for the first time perhaps the first photo of Gauss, his face. One question for the video creater, where did you get this image?
Very well made 👌
Were it NOT for that very annoying piano "music" !
0:53: I used to think this was Beethoven 😂
This is one of the giants whose shoulders we stand on.
Such a chad that he scribbles the DFT algorithm to solve some other problem he was working on and forgets about it
Thank you annayya
Thankyou
you should make a video about alan turing!
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.
I love it
1:49 supposedly he actually realized the you could pair the integers such that 100 +1 = 101, 99. + 2 = 101, 98 + 3 = 101 and so on. and then he multiplied 101 * 50. He didn't come up with the equation for the summation of all integers up to n when he was 10 lol.
Beautiful 👌👌
1st true mathematician of all time. No divine calling, no prestige chasing, only publishing to be able to keep doing math.
Math is chasing that light bulb moment, learning for the sake of understanding.
That is what made him so great, that's what evolution spawned the Noethers and Conway's.
Rest in bliss, your shadow covers the planet. Only small patches can understand what you discovered for what it truly is. I hope to be one some day.
euler
Galois died at 20 in duel during the Revolution.
Had he lived and had they meet, he could have become his perfect complement as an abstraction genius versus Gauss incredible problem solving and digging capacity, to advance mathematics by one or two centuries.
His testimonial letter never reached Gauss.
@@charlesb6490 too bad he wasn't better at dueling 😔
0:45 Don't forget quadratic reciprocity!
Edit: You got it, nice.
any recommendation for great number theory book?
@@spiderjerusalem4009 Disquisitiones Arithmeticae ;)
For a more modern treatment, "A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory" is a solid choice.
are any of those beginner friendly?
The first portrait is Beethoven btw
What is the name of the background song ?
Mozart - Sonata for Two Pianos in D, K. 448
@@moderndaymath oh thank you.
Mr Leok its called "Tap Dancing on my Last Nerve in E flat"
@@sandracmyers Yeah it is very challenging as background music.
Wow super! :)
0:59 some sources use that image as Beethoven's. Are u sure it is gauss?
lol I added in the description that it's actually Beethoven as a child. It is not Gauss
Carl is my mums dads great great great grandpa
And you're a piece of shit. Don't try to showoff.
Awsome
grazie
Mathematics 💖
Immediately arrived here after successfully applying Gauss’s elimination method to find five unknown variables.
Thanks for inventing the gauss rifle in starcraft.
Great man.
why does YT find it necessary to IMPOSE that music on the reader/listener of this otherwise very interesting presentation !
Sorry, I am NOT native English speaker/listener. Consequently this music PREVENTS me from understanding the matter supposed to be presented !
1:04 is a picture of Beethoven
Big up wiki
He who closes his eyes devises wickedness,
🎂Carl Friedrich Gauss 04-30-2022
I like the music 🎶 😅😅
The music was more easy to understand, than all ath solutions that Mr Gauss presented here on this video. Please do not force me to explain all of Mr Gauss’ math solutions. Please.
@@pederlettstroem980 Mozart's music may be easier to understand than Gauss, but Bachian counterpoint - especially from J.S. Bach's Musical Offering, BWV 1079 - is extremely complex.
@@pederlettstroem980 If you want to listen to the music, you should connect to a "music" site !
This site is supposed to give to biography of a mathemetician. Imposing both at the same time results in succeding in NONE !
What does it bring, SUPERIMPOSING that music on the comment of the biography of K. F. GAUSS ?
"With gauss? Mother Africa~ True truth°` genius°• 🗝️You'll Find ... Professor Wolff 1901
I made it to the 48 second point and had to bail because of the ridiculous music being such a distraction.
That painting of the child is not Gauss but Ludwig van Beethoven lol.
Gauß was a fucking genius!
Fascinating account of an amazing man!
I do find the constant frenetic piano very. annoying hence distracting, what earthly justification is there for that
Professional mathematicians may already understand the subject, non mathematicians may appreciate the courtesy of giving full attention to the subject in hand 🌹
I fully agree with this comment !
Agreed
I loved the piano
#Gauß, also!
that's beethoven as a kid
Yep, I added that into the description earlier last year.
Jesus Christ what elementary school did he attend?
No wonder 😂😂
People were more intelligent back then. High child mortality meant that only the fittest would survive, and fitness correlates strongly with intelligence.
That background music is terribly distracting.
Thank you for the Gauss rifle in Battletech.
Gauss was brilliant, unfortunately, he was only human.
beethoven???
Nope! Mozart - Sonata for Two Pianos in D, K. 448
@@moderndaymath at 0:54, that's Beethoven as a kid isn't it?
@@LachlanTyrrell2003 oops! Good notice. Made this a year ago and screwed up with checking that photo xD
@@moderndaymath IIRC they used that song in a study showing increased IQ while listening
@@LachlanTyrrell2003 Didn't expect to see you here!
Great content. Please lose the music.
First why is there Ludwig Van Beethoven in the Thumbnail and second he isnts the most important it's Sir Isaac Newton and Leonhard Euler.
Those Germans man
I Hate Math, and I'm Dutch German!
And it hates you. You're not special dipshit.
I have found out who his father was. In a book found on internet archive , his father arrived in Pennsylvania from England on Sept 26th 1749 . The father's name is "Hans Gauss" . Source is "names of foreigners who took the oath of allegiance in the province and state of Pennsylvania 1727-1775 published in 1852 by Harrisburg Edwin k. Meyers
His father died in Gottingen in 1807 and surely had no ability nor means to travels to the US British colonies at that time. He father was a semi literate garden worker.
@@elaine5953 source ?
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Are you, the narrator, German-American yourself? You seemed to be very interested in delving into Gausse's remarkable history and reciting your findings in a very eloquent fashion!
I'm so confused he's the prince of math and he get's a 12:32 sec episode even chess documentaries get more than that where is all the math documentaries?
True
So this is the man that sent Steel slugs flying out of a electromagnetic barrel.
Rolex Milgauss brought me here
늬
This isn’t warframe?....
Omg the music IS SO LOUD AND NEVER ENDS, sorry can't do it bye
Shut up Karen
Completely agree !
Wdym, it’s civilized music, no need for your ignorant opinions on this beautiful work of art.
Oh geez research before you publish.That is Beethoven's childhood portrait not Gauss.
He wrote this in the description buddy
Annoying music.
Completely agree, with the restriction that your comment is an "euphemism" !
Wdym its civilized music, no need for your ignorance on this beautiful work of art.