Great video! Sorry, but I LMAO @ 4:18. Not over the two bombs detonating over Japan (of course), but over your reflection of the matter: "And so, that was very unfortunate." Anyway keep it up and please post more videos of math history! I can't get enough.
You left out Martin J Berger when talking about the history, his work with Monte Carlo numbers was very important to the development of radiation therapy, as well as radiation shields to protect astronauts, and was helpful to the science of food sterilization and preservation. He was an amazing person who escaped the holocaust, never finished high school but became a physicist with what is now the National institute of standards and technology.
Computers as we know them today did not exist in the 1944-46 period. Von Neumann and Ulam were actually using electro mechanical calculators. This approach was to slow to handle the calculations needed to design a hydrogen bomb, which motivated Von Neumann to build the first modern computer at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton after the war. The Monte Carlo calculation was critical to understanding what was happening to electrons during an atomic blast. See "Turing's Cathedral " by George Dyson.
Very nice. thanks fot that, i like the rendering equation, ray tracing and to make renders, i don´t know many things but i want to learn. I know that Monte-Carlo Methods are often used in Computer Graphics. I have a lot of papers and i am trying to learn more.
Thanks a lot. Fascinating history. It makes math alive.
thanks for that, Its always wonderful to get the history behind these methods
Great video! Sorry, but I LMAO @ 4:18. Not over the two bombs detonating over Japan (of course), but over your reflection of the matter: "And so, that was very unfortunate."
Anyway keep it up and please post more videos of math history! I can't get enough.
You left out Martin J Berger when talking about the history, his work with Monte Carlo numbers was very important to the development of radiation therapy, as well as radiation shields to protect astronauts, and was helpful to the science of food sterilization and preservation. He was an amazing person who escaped the holocaust, never finished high school but became a physicist with what is now the National institute of standards and technology.
He’s also my grandpa and deserves more credit for his work, frankly.
wow. lucky you should be proud to come from good gene.
Computers as we know them today did not exist in the 1944-46 period. Von Neumann and Ulam were actually using electro mechanical calculators. This approach was to slow to handle the calculations needed to design a hydrogen bomb, which motivated Von Neumann to build the first modern computer at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton after the war. The Monte Carlo calculation was critical to understanding what was happening to electrons during an atomic blast. See "Turing's Cathedral " by George Dyson.
Thank you!
Thank you, very informative
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Very nice. thanks fot that, i like the rendering equation, ray tracing and to make renders, i don´t know many things but i want to learn. I know that Monte-Carlo Methods are often used in Computer Graphics. I have a lot of papers and i am trying to learn more.
Hello guij
the only downside is saying the bomb was bad. wrong. It ended WW2.
Oh my god man get to the effing point!!!!
do you watch GTlive Streams ?
"A little history" is in the title, so he is on topic. If you're not looking for "a little history", go to the next video.
Guy the way you repeat some of your sentences is really boring !