A (very) Brief History of Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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, but still the primary focus is on Cauchy's history.
Sources:
docs.google.com/document/d/1m...
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-- TIMESTAMPS --
0:00 Intro screen (SHOULD BE CAUCHY)
0:10 Intro
0:44 Early Life
4:40 Engineering
6:26 Research on Leave
8:10 1814 Paper - Complex Analysis
10:41 Bourbon Rule
14:03 Exile
16:30 Strained Relations
19:33 Out of Exile / Death / Fin
Пікірлер: 42
Learning about the history of mathematics/mathematicians makes the study of mathematical theories much more interesting ! Great video by the way.
@pabloa2228
11 ай бұрын
100% agree
@EMC273
7 ай бұрын
agreed
@anthonyvargas7564
3 ай бұрын
Agreed! Honestly if math was taught like this from the beginning starting with the historical context and the methodologies that sprung out of that context I think it would make that whole subject and feel a lot more appealing to people who hate math, honestly not sure why that's not hot in that way cuz Jimmy has 32 blueberries and what the hell else ever theyre always yappin about in schools
A ℂomplex person.
Nice to see another video from you!
Thank you for making these videos!
Discovered your channel through the Euler video. Been on a binge since. Loving your videos!
Your videos are awesome... keep up the good work!!
Thank you Andrew!! I just knew Cauchy from the Cauchy convergence of a serie. He actually did many things. Love those videos Can you do one about Hermann Schwarz? 🙏 PD: I think the title at the beginning of the video mentions Lagrange?
@moderndaymath
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I finished the video very late and forgot to change my template for the intro screen 😂 I made note of it in the YT description. I'm hoping to make a video on Schwarz next year!
@karabodibakoane3202
2 жыл бұрын
Convergence of a series you say. So basically you're saying you didn't learn about the epsilon-delta definition of a limit?
A really nice video! Please keep it up!
Love your videos.
Your pronounciations of French names is soo soothing
A delightful day after you posted 🙂
This is great. You got yourself a new subscriber
finally a new video !!!!
Excellent. Your efforts are highly appreciable. Indeed, a great distinguished service, here in KZread. There are lot of interesting mathematicians on the list. Consider Hermann Grassmann, George Boole, Stefan Banach etc.
I just learned the Cauchy-Euler equation in Diff-EQ and had no idea who this dude was. Thank you for your help
Thank you for the video :))) I notice his name quite often both in my differential and numerical analysis classes… no wonder why 800 research paper 🤯
Hell yeah dude
You should do Galois!!
When the world needed him most, he returned
I imagine Cauchy just didn't want to argue with Abel and didn't feel inclined to hold any punches that weren't made in the interest of reason. These people came up with limits, they were not wreckless/unscrupulous. Overly cautious, perhaps.
Must research to see if I’m related , Arlene (Cauchy ) Blais
A man of theory and application ! But his idealism kinda screwed him in the long run 😳
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Couchy Lol
This is a rather bigoted view of the personality of such a great man, brought about, no doubt, by too much reading of left-wing French sources (who, yes, hated him solely for his religious and political convictions).
@jontallen3319
2 жыл бұрын
It may sound bigoted, but its accurate. Being great is uncorrelated to being a bone-head, or having an opinion that is hard to justify. Cauchy was what he was, and this video is quite accurate as far as I can tell.
@adambruce1688
2 жыл бұрын
@@jontallen3319 His history is about as accurate as his French pronunciation. Cauchy *was* what he was--an incredible genius to whom we are all indebted.
@trubblman
Жыл бұрын
This sounds a lot like the characterizations written by mathematicians. Catchy apparently was a royalist and strict Catholic. With such beliefs his math talent is startling
@ZarNakano
Жыл бұрын
@trubblman you're not going to believe how religious people like Newton, Leibniz or Euler were Personal beliefs have nothing to do with your ability to do math
@trubblman
Жыл бұрын
@@ZarNakano I wrote religious AND political. However religious a person is, no one who has use of reason believes in transubstantiation. I have no doubt that as a staunch Catholic Cauchy took such foolishness literally
This is a really important review of Cauchy's life. I learned a lot of important details. Thank you for making this video. There is also a somewhat minor mistake at the end during the summary where it says he contributed to Fourier Transforms. I think that should be the Laplace transform. See the discussions in my book on Cauchy's important math contributions: jontalle.web.engr.illinois.edu/MISC/Springer.19/2020_Book_AnInvitationToMathematicalPhys.pdf