Newton giving a lecture - "Hi guys, today we're talking about circles. The first thing you wanna do is invent calculus."

@ant0_alwin

2 жыл бұрын

lmao good one

@tcjgaming9813

2 жыл бұрын

lol🤣

@NerdWithLaptop

2 жыл бұрын

That is the mathematical equivalent of “welcome to standing up school”

@Justin-tp1mx

2 жыл бұрын

*Fluctions

@Justin-tp1mx

2 жыл бұрын

@@getonthecrossanddontlookba5004 Btw you're not getting into heaven by pretending like that and making effortless youtube comments

Also shout out to Indian mathematician and astronomer Madhava of Sangamagrama, who in the 14th century had a different infinite series for pi that converged as fast as Newton's

@ankeshnand

3 жыл бұрын

Woah.

@thethirdjegs

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe for veritasium's next video?

@franciscofernandez8183

3 жыл бұрын

You should definitely pin this comment.

@ankeshnand

3 жыл бұрын

@@thethirdjegs Yeah, I would love to know about this series.

@sumitphysics3407

3 жыл бұрын

And what about Ramanujan Series

If it was anybody but Newton or Euler this would be one of the most iconic moments in mathematical history. The fact that this is one of the least interesting things that Newton discovered is completely insane.

@ker0356

6 ай бұрын

or Gauss, that guy had all the answers in the universe but kept them somewhere in his private letters to someone

@ayan8136

4 ай бұрын

Nice pfp

@prodjignesh

4 ай бұрын

@@ker0356what

I really like this video because I didn’t understand 99% of the math, yet I was invested. It felt like something important was unraveling before me, and I was excited by that. And that’s the power of good storytelling.

@TheBluePhoenix008

7 ай бұрын

I did understand all the math and it was even better

@uncreative369

7 ай бұрын

That's the Power of Math

@KaluaBihari1

6 ай бұрын

maths was nothing just basic calculus

@TheBluePhoenix008

6 ай бұрын

@@KaluaBihari1 people have a hard time with calculus, for some reason

@Glitzy786

6 ай бұрын

Now imagine actually understanding the math behind it. It immediately becomes revolutionary in terms of new and relevant ways of thinking

Imagine spending 25 years of your life on something, and then a 23 year old kid comes along and beats you in a week while being in lockdown

@foresthillwolf7998

3 жыл бұрын

Work smarter not harder

@cheesecakelasagna

3 жыл бұрын

I’m literally a 23 year old quarantining and I have done nothing of substance for the world. fml

@orlandomoreno6168

3 жыл бұрын

That's just technology

@pbj4184

3 жыл бұрын

@@cheesecakelasagna To be fair, most 23 year olds haven't. You'll notice there aren't a lot of Newtons in the world :)

@Puleczech

3 жыл бұрын

The power of a lockdown

Imagine having a career so illustrious that discovering a groundbreaking way to accurrately find pi is just one of your side achievements

@AkshayKumar-kz6zh

2 жыл бұрын

Every other guys call themselves real gangsta. If they would have saw Newton, Turing, Euclid they would have shat their pants

@AuliaAF

2 жыл бұрын

And somehow, that grand side achievement is much less attributable to you than a random falling apple :D :D

@arturkarabekov1920

2 жыл бұрын

@@AuliaAF well, falling of an apple gave him the idea of gravity, which in comparison with calculus is way bigger achievement

@gforcebreakin

2 жыл бұрын

@@AkshayKumar-kz6zh "You Ain't Gangsta Like Newton" Would be a dope track. Rofl

@yuri-cruiter9676

2 жыл бұрын

@@AkshayKumar-kz6zh so much that no one would think you stealing from your student

If only my Math teacher explained it like this back in my college days ...

@joeljustin

Жыл бұрын

More like from School itself.

Everyone is talking about how genius Newton is, but really, we need to shout out Archimedes for solving pi to an almost unnecessary level of precision 1800 years before Newton even came along

@postblitz

22 күн бұрын

Archimedes is almost universally considered the smartest guy alive in the ancient world.

Newton’s quarantine: boring. Let’s upgrade human understanding of mathematics. My quarantine: homemade pizza.

@kennarajora6532

3 жыл бұрын

at least they both have pi in common.

@IdaeChop

3 жыл бұрын

My quarantine: Hey I wonder if anti elements has a more interesting name that just "Anti [insert element]"

@austingilbrideofficial

3 жыл бұрын

dont forget the banana bread

@ramonfrancois9306

3 жыл бұрын

But Newton is dead and you aren't so who's the real winner?

@danzoom

3 жыл бұрын

@@IdaeChop positron?

Imagine working on something for 25 years only to find out that someone did it while playing with an equation during a pandemic.

@maxschmidt8779

3 жыл бұрын

"Playing" Perfect. The Best comment here. Not to downplay Newton's genius... but intrinsic learning is a relevant phenomenon. We may be suffering from a from of slight, collective brain damage due to plastics, pesticides and what not, but the genius has not been extinct. I believe that we are just too distracted and demotivated to enjoy searching any more, hence the discrepancy in the willingly educated and the comfortably dumb who almost form the ending points of a spectrum that represents the human intellect. I refuse to believe we have devolved. I just think the dominant majority has long giving up on hope and the joy of discovery itself.

@mrunfunny

3 жыл бұрын

@@maxschmidt8779 True, makes me say one of the most cliche yet true statement, "Technology has made us more of a stupid than a genius". Majority of people are being motivated only to learn the most basic and inane skills and never grow beyond that. A PhD is rarely likely to earn significantly more than an undergraduate. People are busy learning most insignificant stuff and never allowing their curiosity to take over. Even the smartest people are focusing on wrong things. As Jeff Hammerbacher said, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads". Although these things might seem to be very important in current state of world but on a larger scale, these never matter. Just think about the covid period and how it made us aware about the importance of scientists and doctors. However there are still people who care about such things and in true sense, they are the only one carrying the whole humanity on their shoulders.

@lelouch1722

3 жыл бұрын

Newton is not just "someone" ...

@DamirAsanov

3 жыл бұрын

@@lelouch1722 Was he "something"?

@maazali9604

3 жыл бұрын

@John Citizen he never said nobody he just most people arent

Me during quarantine: Plays video games all day Newton during quarantine: Creates groundbreaking mathematical solutions

@blucat4

2 ай бұрын

Alas, alak.

@stevrgrs

Ай бұрын

That’s because he didn’t have video games or other distractions to simulate his brain :)

When this man said:“Luckily he just invented calculus“ like its not even that great. I realised what a genius he was. Sadly we dont learn about that in school

@magik97

9 ай бұрын

What? We learn that in school

@Judge_0f_Everything

9 ай бұрын

Lmao kid is so dumb

@ClintonDawkins

8 ай бұрын

You were a bad student.

@TaylorfromPapaLouie

7 ай бұрын

​@@ClintonDawkinsor they had a bad school

@ClintonDawkins

7 ай бұрын

@@TaylorfromPapaLouie Bad students never blame themselves.

The animator is the hidden hero here!

@veritasium

3 жыл бұрын

Truth - shout out to Ivàn!

@robb6560

3 жыл бұрын

@@veritasium thank you Ivàn!!!!

@enzoqueijao

3 жыл бұрын

Ivàn rules

@albertbancroft4507

3 жыл бұрын

Big up Ivàn!

@regenpalkar4385

3 жыл бұрын

666 likes

"We should always know the extent to which the rules have a chance of working farther" - I like that phrase

Newton was one incredible man

@thebelligerentbostonian7524

Жыл бұрын

"Newton was a smat cookie" -- Penny Holfstader

@kasiphia

Жыл бұрын

Indeed he was.

@NoLifeDax

Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed he was

@74jparralel38

Жыл бұрын

@@thebelligerentbostonian7524 smat

@Uma-Bharat-India

9 ай бұрын

Avunu.

“Luckily, Newton had just invented Calculus.” Bruh chill out Newton leave some discoveries for the rest of us.

@gigachad6162

3 жыл бұрын

newton was a massive con artist

@mdv9831

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Newton was a little too smart. The man did enough stuff to help modern physics 100s of years later

@jhonjacson798

3 жыл бұрын

Tbf if newton never lived we still would have had calculus, Leibniz has got you covered

@ASLUHLUHCE

3 жыл бұрын

@@akashverma8656 Leibnitz fanboy

@mdv9831

3 жыл бұрын

@@jhonjacson798 true. But a lot of other things would've gone undiscovered. The man discovered too many things to count. Also, calculus was discovered earlier in India.

Hey Derek, i don't know who that guy is, but invite him as much as possible

@username3543

3 жыл бұрын

He is a math-professor.

@firstlast9731

3 жыл бұрын

ok

@tanmaybhosale1844

3 жыл бұрын

Alex Kontorovich, Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University,

@Hellmuth4

3 жыл бұрын

it's like u got a thing for him or something

@georgesanderson918

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hellmuth4 Hes really happy

Love it. After 65 years I've finally understood what the teachers were trying to teach me. Odd remembering and piecing together all those fragments of memories largely because they were ajumble of unrelated abstract ideas which you gave coherence, meaning and understanding too. If only you'd been around when my kids were at school. Cheers Prof !

The man was so glad to be part of this and talking about it

Now I understand how my dog feels when I'm talking to it.

@andrewturnbull1866

3 жыл бұрын

That is literally laugh out loud funny.

@godsinbox

3 жыл бұрын

that would suggest you are barking at your dog, and your dog thinks you are somehow saying long descriptive words that it doesn't understand the meaning for. you have even overreached with your joke.

@cheesegraters3975

3 жыл бұрын

@@godsinbox stfu

@jesperdonner1609

3 жыл бұрын

@@cheesegraters3975 no you

@billbauer9795

3 жыл бұрын

You just need to take second year calculus (where integration will be covered) and probability theory (where factorial notation will be covered).

"Kids these days depend too much on the binomial expansion to calculate pi. Back in our day we used to bisect polygons. Sure, it was hard work, but it built character. Now we have entitled brats who think the fastest way of calculating pi is the right way of doing it."

@olabergvall3154

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah hate it when that happens

@rubenhaug3978

2 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@PunnamarajVinayakTejas

2 жыл бұрын

@@rubenhaug3978 It got 4 likes in 4 days so long after the video was released, so... I'll take it

@j6077xxd

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha.

@walterloehrmann5213

2 жыл бұрын

@@PunnamarajVinayakTejas I gave you like 100. I made you three digits, my dude! ;)

This video is an absolute masterpiece of storytelling. The beauty of discovery comes through so well. I watch this every few months, and I'm inspired every single time

Learning, "big boy" math for University and I cannot express how helpful this was. It was like, "omg I get it. I actually get it." Thank you so much.

1666: Newton, during quarantine, discovering pi 2020: Me, during quarantine, eating pie

@liamfeatherstone924

3 жыл бұрын

Jim 1999 shagging pie

@anawesomepet

3 жыл бұрын

2354: People, during quarantine looking at pie

@shivamnarula1601

3 жыл бұрын

Newton copied ancient Indian scriptures

@cinemarat1834

3 жыл бұрын

@@shivamnarula1601 ?

@joeyjuly215

3 жыл бұрын

@@shivamnarula1601 andddd where did you learned that?

"Luckily he had just invented calculus" unbelievable

@paxpacis2

2 жыл бұрын

Right? "speed running maths" is complete understatement. Newton is the equivalent of dropping an atomic bomb on cavemen

@andyc9902

2 жыл бұрын

You will never find The fun and love in maths. If you don't, "Seek"

@jacky-brawlstars823

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to real numbers in Math

@BlastinRope

2 жыл бұрын

Discovered

@paxpacis2

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlastinRope No, invented

I studied maths as Uni but never had access to material like this. These videos explain complex ideas in a few minutes that took me weeks of reading in text books to understand.

@Tommy_007

9 ай бұрын

If you studied math at university, it should be clear to you that many mathematical details were left out in the video. These details take time to learn - and teach.

I've watched this for the fourth time today. What a delight. Thanks for making this!

I am a mathematician. I have masters in applied statistics, data analysis and all that jazz. I remember when I took the exam from this topic and I learned it. The way it was explained in the book made little sense to me, I always wondered how did anyone come up with it? It was so unintuitive and weird.... I have not seen that theory for years now and yet everything makes sense immediately. I think this is how it needs to be taught at school... well done.

@jasonlandry8685

3 жыл бұрын

I failed calculus because it was explained so poorly in class. This video would have helped me ace the class.

@timq6224

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonlandry8685 -- I didn't learn why calc worked until a vid like this came along -- 20 years later.

@RudyBleeker

3 жыл бұрын

@@timq6224 Oh boy, the nightmares of highschool calculus. I hope my kids will be taught it differently, because I still believe math is important, even though I was thoroughly turned off of it in school.

@victorzoni4588

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah this video had that 3blue1brown energy

@latebloomer2

3 жыл бұрын

I wish something like this exist 23 years ago, so I don't have to repeat calculus class 3 times, just to get C-🤣

I swear I got goosebumps when he rotated that Pascal's triangle. That was some "protagonist realizes the truth" moment right there. This is how maths should be taught!

@shilpaprajapati4801

3 жыл бұрын

If math is taught like like, it feels nothings less than amazing magic tricks!

@SiMeGamer

3 жыл бұрын

@@shilpaprajapati4801 this is not how math should be taught. This is purely inspirational presentation. To actually learn you need to do some work yourself to actually understand it. That's why being in a lecture is not enough not matter how good it is. So if math was taught like this, you'd've never learned any math in the first place. I think these are great as an introduction because they are relatively short and have a great story. But this is not a replacement for proper pedagogy.

@shilpaprajapati4801

3 жыл бұрын

@@SiMeGamer so true bro, math should be taught like this. This way of presentation makes even the most complicated topics of math not only easier, but also interesting and fun to watch...

@SiMeGamer

3 жыл бұрын

@@shilpaprajapati4801 You just said "so true" and continued agreeing with the point you made previously despite me saying the opposite. It's not how math should be taught. You don't properly learn anything from this.

@shilpaprajapati4801

3 жыл бұрын

@@SiMeGamer not true* 😅 I think this is the proper way of teaching

My most favorite video of all the time on youtube. As many times, as I watch this video, I got to know about and am curious about maths and pi.

This is the most exciting video I have ever watched. It’s like taking all the math I ever learned and putting it into one video. Wish someone had shown me this in 1st grade, so I could have understood the roadmap before me.

"He was quarantining at home due to an outbreak of Bubonic Plague." I felt this

@sombrero4316

3 жыл бұрын

This is his version of learning a new skill during lockdown...dude sat down and calculated pi...

@Execitive

3 жыл бұрын

@@sombrero4316 haha tru af, he didnt have netflix tho

@prithwirajjadhav1611

3 жыл бұрын

Pandemics can be good!

@pluto8404

3 жыл бұрын

Good thing he had skillshare

@rschroev

3 жыл бұрын

IIRC that's also when he came up with his law of universal gravitation and laws of motion, laying the foundation for all of classical mechanics. Maybe that's what you get when you don't have as many distractions as we do these days, I guess, maybe?

in all honesty, i never realized how much of a genius newton really was. i feel a bit ashamed now, dude practically made hundreds of years worth of discoveries in a few decades and i never cared much for him at all. somehow this is insanely impressive. imagine being this guy.

@ThPaScCo

2 жыл бұрын

I once read Newton was the smartest human who ever lived. Never saw anyone dispute that.

@anirbanroy5667

2 жыл бұрын

This is the most unpopular opinion but also aside from all the phenomenol things learned from Newton, Einstein, Euler, Ramanujan, etc, I also learned that there is a different kind of fun in making students stressed out beyond how much peer pressure can

@writershard5065

2 жыл бұрын

The point isn't about how genius Newton is, but rather that he decided to go against the grain and try things from a different angle, which brought him closer to solving this issue than anyone else did. Innovation and change is just as important as respecting traditions and rules. You need to understand why the latter exists to break it and invent new ways to move forward into the future.

@carso1500

2 жыл бұрын

@Alex ' einstein is recognized because he basically revolutionized physics, created what we know as moder physics and because he was right in basically everything, scientists have been trying to break his theories for 100 years and soo far everyone has failed

@carso1500

2 жыл бұрын

@Alex ' knowledge is build on knowledge just because einstein didnt come up with those concepts himself from scratch doesnt mean that he wasnt any less smart or less of a genious thats like saying that newton wasnt smart because he didnt invented mathematics he had thousands of years worth of theory and practice to work from he just moved some numbers around and thats it anyone could have added a -1 its nothing special (which is stupid) einstein started a revolution in many ways that we are still seeing today, and yes his ideas have held up soo far unless you are going to tell me that general or special relativity are wrong, quantum mechanics was always a huge problem for him because he didnt believed in the uncertainty principle since it made him unconfortable and tried really hard to prove it wrong, he failed of course, that doesnt mean that all his ideas are wrong in fact one huge problem modern physics has is that both general relativity and quantum physics are correct, and both theories are basically inconpatible with one another since one is deterministic while the other one is probabilistic (not really incompatible but scientist are having a hard time unifying both theories)

Newton was like the final boss in a very difficult FPS game like Doom. I feel as soon as he decided to tackle pi, the Doom boss music started playing in the background.

I first watched this video like 2 years ago, when i was just starting my engineering. And i have returned to this video a few times because i found it fascinating. But now that I'm in my final year of my engineering diploma, i finally understand the actual math and theory behind it and it makes the video that much more amazing

I love how mathematicians are almost always so happy to talk about math.

@blmppes9876

2 жыл бұрын

math is his wife

@lemondigit7309

2 жыл бұрын

i love to talk about math too even though im not a mathematician

@prajwalsarangi2601

2 жыл бұрын

@@lemondigit7309 same with me

@innosanto

2 жыл бұрын

Everybody does. Math is beautiful

@tsadkiel2008

2 жыл бұрын

@@lemondigit7309 I love talking about math, but main stream media told me it is racist. So I count my change silently.

Newton schooled himself on Brilliant during the bubonic plague quarantine

@DyslexicMitochondria

3 жыл бұрын

I mean brilliant is pretty good. It helps me come up with new topics for my videos

@danielretardo7075

3 жыл бұрын

@@DyslexicMitochondria Cool channel

@stereoheart.806

3 жыл бұрын

Newton is a Chad bruh

@randomdude9135

3 жыл бұрын

When I start working, I'll sign up for subscription. Currently I'm living off of parent's money for internet etc

@SamSam-ir7ux

3 жыл бұрын

@@stereoheart.806 ironically he died a virgin.

Veritassium videos are always so well and clearly illustrated/animated, kudos!

This is a very exciting, entertaining and interesting video! Thank you so much for helping me find out more information about fields of science I’m interested in❤

Quarantine : *exists Newton : guess I'll just invent calculus...

@sandstealers476

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Quarantine a long time ago.

@carsonchiem145

3 жыл бұрын

Leibnitz* but close enough

@pwnmeisterage

3 жыл бұрын

@@carsonchiem145 Leibniz was the better thinker. But Newton was the better explainer.

@racoon251

3 жыл бұрын

him and leibniz

@88fibonaccisequence

3 жыл бұрын

Newton's Achievements: -- Reflecting telescopes -- Spectral analysis -- Calculus -- Laws of Motion -- Universal Law of Gravitation Einstein's Achievements: -- Brownian Motion -- Photoelectric Effect -- Special Relativity -- Mass-Energy Equivalence -- General Relativity My Achievements: --

Veritasium: **explaining how to get Pi** me just wondering who's gonna eat the pizzas

@kennarajora6532

3 жыл бұрын

it's pineapple pizza, so probably no one.

@unusuario5173

3 жыл бұрын

Some videos shouldn't be watched while being high.

@pusingfismat7099

3 жыл бұрын

@@kennarajora6532, I'd have the pineapple pizza, please.

@zanxaa

3 жыл бұрын

@@pusingfismat7099 me too

@aurelia8028

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same as well

Nice video, and another contribution to the "Flare-up of Priority Disputes" between Leibniz and Newton. It probably will go on forever.

I can easily say, this video is one of the best mathematics video I've ever seen so far.

This mans gave me a better understanding of Pi in 2 minutes than 5 years of school

@thesnorlaxagenda

2 жыл бұрын

I wish this story was shown to me in ap calc

@arkodyotichoudhury2768

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah.... Only a true seeker can have the power of pure teaching.. 💟

@sampanna6983

2 жыл бұрын

haha school bad, funny

@thedirector6297

2 жыл бұрын

@@sampanna6983 but it's true tho

@sampanna6983

2 жыл бұрын

@@thedirector6297 if schools didn't teach you anything (regardless of how bad they taught), you wouldn't understand half the things in the video, so stop shitting on schools.

"He speed ran pi." Queue Home- 'We're Finally Landing'

@preachist8274

3 жыл бұрын

TRUE LMAO

@ashmit8274

3 жыл бұрын

Man, i blew water through my nose while drinking it. Lmao 🤣🤣🤣

@christianschweda2530

3 жыл бұрын

On point! Thanks for the hearty laugh.

@a-aron3847

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that is a pretty obscure reference omg

@Accusedbold

3 жыл бұрын

Man, this channel keeps getting better and better. Have my updoot Derrick.

Beautifully put together! ✨

Great great video. I hope these were available back them in school. Thanks alot for sharing.

given a pizza with radius of "z", and thickness of "a", you can calculate its volume using V = pi.z.z.a

@driftingonvirtualether

3 жыл бұрын

we had this written in our school book :D

@catchyten

3 жыл бұрын

My dude...love it

@rayenmemelord784

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@porkypig2971

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@amanvijayjindal5742

3 жыл бұрын

❤️the video, ❤️ your comment

Isaac Newton, when the plague hits he discovers gravity, Invented calculus and made his Annus Mirabillis. And here am I getting fatter from quarantine.

@darren430

3 жыл бұрын

i know, right??

@Shootskas

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe he would be getting fatter if he had KZread as well...lol.

@darren430

3 жыл бұрын

@@Shootskas He would have invented KZread!

@Shootskas

3 жыл бұрын

@@darren430 touche

@darren430

3 жыл бұрын

@@Shootskas ;-)

I have zero clue what’s happening in this video but it’s somehow keeping me extremely entertained and engaged so good job on that 👍

I have degrees in mathematics, and have never seen anybody explain concepts as well as this channel.

Archimedes: Flexing that 96gon* Francois Viete: 393, 216 sides of big boss* Ludolph Van Ceulen: Hold my Heineken* 4,611,686,018,427,387,904 sides Newton: I am about to end all your careers.

@DarkWolf958

3 жыл бұрын

actually paused the video to read the tomestone it was strangely comprihensible for something written in 1610, also interesting that the date year was numerical but the days were roman numerals

@flynnparish9833

3 жыл бұрын

@@DarkWolf958Can you imagine what would people say in a few hundred years into the future, people looking back at the tombstones that didn't have emojis on them?

@sadenb

3 жыл бұрын

@@DarkWolf958 That's because the indian numerals were adapted in Florence and it replaced the abacus for mathematics.

@mctuble

3 жыл бұрын

Until he realizes either he calculated them wrong or the person inscribing his stone did it wrong. Did no one else notice at 4:41 on his stone it says 3141...3 and not 5. Veritasium please explain!

@yevedebe

3 жыл бұрын

@@mctuble @Veritasium Indeed the picture that it shown is not the actual (recreated) tombstone. The image on Wikipedia is more correct. There are many differences. Even his name is spelled wrongly as Van Geulen (with a G). I might go and have a look myself to make sure. ;-)

This is probably the coolest maths video i've ever watched. Thanks so much

Imma be honest, I don't understand literally any of what's being said in this video but it's nice to listen to.

"luckily for us, he had just invented calculus" as you just casually do, ya know.

@CATinBOOTS81

3 жыл бұрын

Gottfried Leibniz vehemently disagree.

@andymtb5714

3 жыл бұрын

Lol literally the second I looked at the comments he said that and I saw your comment

@overbored617

3 жыл бұрын

*unluckily for us dumb shits he invented calculus that will make you suffer your whole university life because it spawns geometry, trigonometry, physics, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics and all that pits of hell

@andeemengaming5000

3 жыл бұрын

@@overbored617 lol chill math is fun just put time and brain into it

@mudskie4394

3 жыл бұрын

@@andeemengaming5000 not if the amount of work from the other subjects are added

Derek, I'm a math instructor at a university. Your teaching methods are seriously starting to make me question my own. I want to teach like you in the classroom. :]

@OverlordHD36

2 жыл бұрын

Do it, I never really went on to what pi even is as a student. Not only did he make me understand it litteraly effortlessly, but he made me love it too at the same time

@AcediaIX

2 жыл бұрын

I swear, I'm also a Math teacher at a HighSchool and he only way most of them gets interested is me adding Jokes on numbers, using Food or luxuries instead of Variable(Screw X! I use symbols associated with the formula)

@JKBEAST

2 жыл бұрын

A teacher genuinely wanting to impart knowledge. Well respect. Its rare to see teachers who are genuine

@ZOCCOK

2 жыл бұрын

God the students will be even more confused 🔥😂

@niceguy9790

2 жыл бұрын

why is pi > C/D?

I keep watching this video again and again. It's just majestic and I want to incorporate this in my mind.

Can someone please shed some light on how that Dutch mathematician was able to calculate the perimeter of a 2^62 side polygon?

@nicholasdarrylh.9062

Жыл бұрын

Painstakingly.

@HeyUtsav

Жыл бұрын

@@nicholasdarrylh.9062 But still, how is this even humanely possible?! I just want to know how one could construct such shape or make the calculations for it.

@h3xagon488

Жыл бұрын

@@HeyUtsav as you can see every shape can be calculated using a formula (which I guess can be done repeatedly until the wanted shape, and as said in the video a 12 sided polygon needs you to extract sqrts in sqrts so imagine you had to do it for like 30 sqrts or something (not sure about the actual number)

@sillyking1991

Жыл бұрын

I mean, idk when trigonometry was invented, but since you can divide any polygon into some number of equal right triangles, that you know 1 of the angles for and the length of the hypotenuse...so maybe that way?

@prasoonjha6314

10 ай бұрын

@@sillyking1991 Trigonometry is very old. It stretches back to thousands of years. Legend has it that Thales used the ratio of an object's height and it's shadow's length to measure the height of a pyramid (he was basically using tan). Though the earliest form of trigonometry was developed much later by Hipparchus. Trigonometry started looking like it's modern form during India's Golden Age when Aryabhata discovered the sine and versed sine functions (he probably had Hipparchus' works at his disposal but we cannot be sure). Following Aryabhata's lead, Muslim mathematicians discovered the other trigonometric functions and made trigonometry as we know it today during the Islamic Golden Age. At last, the notation to represent trig functions was given by Euler. So, you're probably right that he may have used Trigonometry.

Ludolph Van Ceulen: “I spent 25 years to calculate pi with extreme precision” Isaac Newton: *S P E E D R U N*

@m4ster578

3 жыл бұрын

*dream music starts playing*

@alihesham8167

2 жыл бұрын

*3 . 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 8 9 7 9 3 2 3 8 4 6 2 6 4 3 3 8 3 2 7 9 5 0 2 9 7 1 6 9 3 9 9 3 7 5 1 0 5 8 2 0 9 7 4*

@RichConnerGMN

2 жыл бұрын

@JACOB H uhhh is there any way to cheat in math? that doesn't sound like a thing. but if there is, and someone did it, he'd be that guy

@thenoobthatdied6489

2 жыл бұрын

to be fair, Newton was around 24 years old when he discovered how to approximate pi. So essentially Newton only beat Ludolph by 1 year. It took Newton 24 years to get the approximation to more than the current world record at that time. :^)

@greg77389

2 жыл бұрын

@@thenoobthatdied6489 But Newton also did so much more than that during that time. He literally established an entire branch of mathematics--Calculus. Not to mention Newtonian physics, his theory of gravity, his work on light and optics, and few people know this but he actually made huge contributions to theology as well.

The real question is why Derek bough 6 pizzas when 4 could have done the job.

@thomasfevre9515

3 жыл бұрын

The naive approach. You don't assume the value you are looking for, you just go and find out. Or maybe pizza cravings?

@RoyBatty81

3 жыл бұрын

One of those pizzas was an intruder. It had pineapples

@thomasfevre9515

3 жыл бұрын

@@RoyBatty81 i ber sir Isaac Newton never ate a pizza with pineapple!

@rosepinkskyblue

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe having some friends over?

@Kamilione

3 жыл бұрын

He wasn't sure what the ceil of pi is. Better be safe!

coming back to this video when i'm now on university studying calculus and actually understanding all of the integrating part feels soo good

@Moodboard39

4 ай бұрын

Than guess KZread should replace all teachers ...what a waste of money

@vintage_osu

4 ай бұрын

@@Moodboard39 not as in thanks to this video, but the other sense smh

You have truly outdone yourself, this is an amazing video.

From just looking at that guy's face you can tell how much in love he is with maths.. He is just so darn happy ❤️

@MasterCivilEngineering

3 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

@SUPAMON

3 жыл бұрын

Kind of

@ericvosselmans5489

3 жыл бұрын

either that, or there is someone under the desk

@shohomchakraborty9081

3 жыл бұрын

I’m part of an advanced math progam in MoMath and he’s actually one of the instructors!

@mackdigest

3 жыл бұрын

He reminded me of my college days studying Math. I used to talk to my Math Major and Non-Math Major friends all about random math history; and wouldn't stop tell someone told me to shut up.

We can all agree that cutting the crust off of pizza is the least ridiculous way to calculate pi.

@bgggeometry6082

3 жыл бұрын

Yo wsp David

@ahamay2012

3 жыл бұрын

Why don´t use a Pie?

@nobodyknows3180

3 жыл бұрын

Nevertheless, it makes a great visual. They deserve a 21-gon salute!

@PastaTurtle

3 жыл бұрын

The best inside joke in school I've ever had is similar to this, we joke that our (amazing) teacher only eats the crusts of pizzas

@YTEdy

3 жыл бұрын

@@PastaTurtle Speaking of college jokes, a friend of mine used to hold up those little square drakes fruit pies and he would say. "Pie are square" (It works better with the pie in hand)

Dude. When you rotated that triangle up into the imaginary I lost my freaking mind. I’ve never had any math concept click that hard. I wish I could relearn all of mathematics in the style of how they were derived. That would be a lot of fun.

Kudos to the video illustration team

"Newton was quarantining at home due to an outbreak of bubonic plague." Newton was such a recluse, we all know he would've been at home even without the plague haha.

@kento6201

3 жыл бұрын

Haha all thanks to his solitude we got this impressive idea!

@kento6201

3 жыл бұрын

Haha all thanks to his solitude we got this impressive idea!

@samsontag

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but he would have been too busy with his 'close friend' if he wasn't in quarantine.

@noozzoo5152

3 жыл бұрын

Sheeple think SARS-CoV2 is equivalent to the Bubonic Plague. We now have a generation of insufferable germophobes.

@vijayanand2394

3 жыл бұрын

@@noozzoo5152 5 seconds ago, lol

Man, I have just realized something important: "You would tolerate the complexity of math concept, IF YOU KNEW the story of WHY it was invented"

@paddor

2 жыл бұрын

Or how

@elementalneil7967

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Schools should play these videos as part of their curriculum.

@cryptopotomus1417

2 жыл бұрын

Man didn't invent math. We simply discovered it

@carso1500

2 жыл бұрын

@@cryptopotomus1417 thats an actual philosophical question, did we invented math or did we dicover it?

@cryptopotomus1417

2 жыл бұрын

@@carso1500 2 of an object and 2 more of the same object is 4 objects. Across all walks of life It was like that long before humans were around. It'll be like that long after we're gone and another species discovers it

Amazing. Have been using these form school time (30 years back) but never realised it the way you explain here. It almost makes me think - why I did not think of it before. 😂😂👍👍

Hear me out, just HEAR me out okay, I think Issac Newton could be a Time traveler

A mathematics professor who was a good friend of mine, and who died recently at 90, told me with haunting conviction that Pascal's triangle has not remotely revealed all of its secrets.

@dacolts24

2 жыл бұрын

Were gonna break the universe at some point. Or discover the beginning and end. Idk crazy stuff happening

@movinperera

2 жыл бұрын

If this much was learnt by just rotating the Pascal's triangle in two dimensions, imagine what could be there if it was in the 3rd dimension

@rs-tarxvfz

2 жыл бұрын

@@movinperera Or even worse, combine Quaternions with Pascals Triangle

@jessiegashler427

2 жыл бұрын

@@rs-tarxvfz NO NO NO NO NO! I've spent the last 5 freaking years wrapping my head around quaternions! We DO NOT need to make them any more of an enigma!

@rs-tarxvfz

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessiegashler427 May quaternions explain much more complex phenomenon.

Imagine being so smart that two hundred years later people are still failing to pass tests on reproducing what you discovered from scratch.

@anirbanroy5667

2 жыл бұрын

They also taught that there is a different kind of fun in confusing and stressing out people

@menensa

2 жыл бұрын

@@anirbanroy5667 😂😂

@sidviscous5959

2 жыл бұрын

I believe that Mr. Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz might have something to say about the assertion that Newton just "discovered this from scratch." Liebniz invented much of the terminology that you must master in order to pass those tests.

@applecheese8819

2 жыл бұрын

@@sidviscous5959 The two discovered it independently of one another. Both of them contributed a ton to mathematics as we know it.

@eclecticsoffy

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, the test is to make sure you remember the thing

this is so amazing!!! I have never heard this method before

This video is an amazing simplification of several complicated concepts. I have obsessed for years over some of the ideas presented and strongly agree with all ideas presented. One concept I might have added would be instead of (or in addition to) proving the area of a circle as a rectangle, show it instead as a triangle with Cartesian Coordinates (0,0), (0,2 * pi * r) and (r,0). This triangle is the result of taking the perimeter of a circle and perimeter of each smaller concentric circle until you reach zero. The perimeter of a circle being proportional to each radius of the concentric circles is easily seen on this graph where the value of x is a radius and y is the circumference. The area of the triangle is of course (2 * pi * r^2)/2 = pi * r^2.

Newton quarantined at home: figures out pi Me quarantined at home: screws up making a pie

@georgesracingcar7701

2 жыл бұрын

For some reason I didn’t get the joke on the first read Maybe because it should’ve been more creative.

@oswaldoriginal7587

2 жыл бұрын

haaaa ha ha, and all those series to me are not convincing

@vedantsridhar8378

2 жыл бұрын

@@henk7747 How do u know

@MOHIQB

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha😆😆😆

@jeremiahpeter7394

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao you're one cool dude mate 😊👍🌈🇲🇾🍀

Grienberger: nobody will ever bissect better than me Newton: I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move

@bobbyhalick

3 жыл бұрын

hahahahahahaha lolol

@cursze4870

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@birdbeakbeardneck3617

3 жыл бұрын

david504 voice: checkmate

@Ohadberry

3 жыл бұрын

This is why mathmaticians have a high suicide rate

@flecart

3 жыл бұрын

Loooooool hahajaha

Fantastic video so inspiring and eye opening !

Beautifully explained!

When Mathematics is visualized and explained properly from the beginning it is absolutely beautiful.

@samirpalepu1588

3 жыл бұрын

It's the language of the universe, the most beautiful thing to ever have been discovered. Everything is based upon it.

@hamsarris8341

3 жыл бұрын

You can thank the mathematical genuis God.

@seanmiller8686

3 жыл бұрын

@@hamsarris8341 shut up

@hamsarris8341

3 жыл бұрын

@@seanmiller8686 ?

@seanmiller8686

3 жыл бұрын

@@hamsarris8341 god didn't do anything

he was testing to see if he can write 6 pizzas of on his taxes as a buziness expense

@mark-ish

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully the ATO will reprimand him for having pineapple on it.

@kennyimammahardika3868

3 жыл бұрын

Now that's a true genius

@snippykeegan

3 жыл бұрын

Damn, Veritasium stole gus' idea

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

3 жыл бұрын

this video is for a tax write off

@snippykeegan

3 жыл бұрын

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 yeah that one XD

It blows my mind every time when I hear how young all these historic physicist/mathematicians were when they made this massive discoveries

Thank you, ivan and Veritasium for teaching me more than my advanced math teacher

Van Ceulen; "yeah, so I calculated pi to the 50th integer" Newton; *"Hold my apple"*

@Politics_is_PUBLIC_TOILET

2 жыл бұрын

If Newton's apple had landed in a puddle, he would have seen the apple only fell through the air because it was denser then the air, but then floated on top of the water beacause it was less dense than water. Gravity only points direction. It took him a book three times thicker than the Bible (,,Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica,,)and he still couldn't finish his equation on how to prove gravity. And it contains so many ,,if,,'s... Newton's Marvellous Year is 1666 (666 devil's signature...)

@justarandomredditor7954

2 жыл бұрын

i actually audibly laughed at this

@NASAFanboy

2 жыл бұрын

@@Politics_is_PUBLIC_TOILET QAnon has taken over your mind, get help

@joerionis5902

2 жыл бұрын

@@NASAFanboy The pressure from that persons skull is so low he's probably floating into space by now

@kevin-7091

2 жыл бұрын

@@Politics_is_PUBLIC_TOILET U ok?

when you aren't looking and mistake Prof. Alex's voice for Sal Khan

@NegetiveRizz

3 жыл бұрын

Yo

@DyslexicMitochondria

3 жыл бұрын

Haha I've listened to sal Khan SO many times that his voice is etched in my brain. His narration is flawless. Whenever I need an idea for a new video, I go to Khan academy. Sal inspired me for my yt channel where i make videos on science

@aasid2446

3 жыл бұрын

Third to comment on your comment

@prathamjain9185

3 жыл бұрын

Oh you're here 🔥👍

@RandomGravel

3 жыл бұрын

hello human

In the past I was always frustrated as I could not calculate pi. Then about 10 years ago I found this solution for myself. I was so pleased with myself, all that was necessary was the knowledge of Pythagoras and the ability to calculate square roots . .

This brought back some memories - I came up with the polygon approach myself as a 15yo, but could see that it was not going to be very efficient. Later in life I too used a calculus based approach, but perhaps not as good as Newton's! I worked out the power series for inverse sin, and used it to get estimates for the inverse sin of 1/2, which is of course pi/6. I worked in binary (or sort of in base 4 or 16) and since it was just an indulgent game I didn't waste my time converting to decimal! I was able to hand calculate a value to quite a few places this way.

Revealing the history behind Math makes it so much more interesting...it’s a shame History is divorced from Math because it would definitely kill the question “why do I need to learn this?”

@XMarkxyz

3 жыл бұрын

Same for science, there so much in the history of science of how we came to know what we know: it always astonishes me how greek's geometry was advanced just think about Eratosthenes, or how with simple experiments whith genius insight Lavoisier managed to put down the basics of chemistry or how Focault proved Earth motin and his idea of the gyroscope is used for airplane and satellites navigation

@BenDRobinson

4 ай бұрын

Funny you should say that, because when I was at school doing science it used to piss me off that we were being taught history of science when I just wanted to learn science. What did I care about outdated models of atomic structure? But now I actually enjoy learning more of the history side of things.

Imagine the intellectual high Netwon was on after accidentally revolutionizing mathematics 4 times while just playing around with an equation out of boredom

@draco89123

3 жыл бұрын

Stuck in quarantine no less. Where's our COVID Newton?

@chsxtian

3 жыл бұрын

@@draco89123 watching Netflix, probably

@binderchannel9454

3 жыл бұрын

Just imagine that same Isac Newton spent years decoding the bible and metaphysics that no one talks about today. guess how many mysteries would be unlocked the day we refer to his metaphysical findings.

@austinhernandez2716

3 жыл бұрын

@@binderchannel9454 The Bible is a bunch of bs made up by primitive men. Half of it seems to be stories adopted from older religions.

@3mpt7

3 жыл бұрын

@Austin Hernandez That bunch of bs contains a whole bunch of quarantine measures, ideally suited for disease, plagues, and other outbreaks. Number one being 'If unclean, or showing symptoms, _don't_ attend your local congregation'.

This is the best video from Veritasium. I have learned so much than I studied in my school life😅

I love the professor he always has a permanent smile on his face.

I mostly knew Newton as the physics guy but I had no idea he also INVENTED CALCULUS AND BROKE THE BINOMIAL THEOREM TO SOLVE PI THIS MAN WAS INSANE AND DESERVES ALL THE FAME

@critical_analysis

Жыл бұрын

Newton was the greatest genius who ever lived. Even the great Gauss pays homage to Newton.

@MrTaleth

Жыл бұрын

Regarding inventing calculus it should be noted though that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invited it simultaiously and independently from Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz notation was actually superior and the one used later on

@critical_analysis

Жыл бұрын

@@MrTaleth Newton invented it nearly two decades earlier and kept it for himself. Leibniz is a great mathematician but even he would be embarrassed to be compared with the genius of Newton. Newton is the only human in history who could be arguably called as the greatest mathematician and physicist simultaneously. Newton was something else, no wonder even the incomparable Gauss was in awe of Newton. To me, Newton's genius mind is the pinnacle of human thought.

@MrTaleth

Жыл бұрын

@@critical_analysis I fully agree that Leibnez can't be compared to Newton. Regarding calcus specifically though as I have understood it most historians view the development of it as made by both of them independently of each other. If you have sources of historians pointing to it being the sole invention of Newton please share :)!

@pineapplesandwich3906

Жыл бұрын

oh! he also discovered how your eyes perceiving color works. man was so cool that solving color was just a minor achievement in his career

So he figured this out during quarantine. Now I feel even worse about how little I accomplished in 2020.

@dadutchboy2

2 жыл бұрын

engineer gaming

@uzerf

2 жыл бұрын

anddd he was 24 lol

@airprincessjennifer

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@PerthScienceClinic

2 жыл бұрын

And so you should. It isn't as though he had one of the finest creative scientific minds of the last, well, all of history.

@dionysianapollomarx

2 жыл бұрын

He also invented optics and the prism experiment. He was also doing alchemy. As mentioned, he wrote the foundations of calculus.

I'm convinced every mathematician just has an image of pascals triangle on their desk with the amount of times it's been used to solve problems from every subject imaginable.

Good thing I forgot things often. Relearning how people play around with patterns is intriguing.

Moral of the story : Newton was hell of a genius.

@madcap9977

Жыл бұрын

True

@santhoshhbs

Жыл бұрын

@@madcap9977 he just tried all the possibilities that he know

@hijdjf2961

Жыл бұрын

@@santhoshhbs Look who's talking. You don't even have proper grammer.

@hijdjf2961

Жыл бұрын

@santhoshh bs, you are the type of person to struggle to open pistachios.

@santhoshhbs

Жыл бұрын

@@hijdjf2961 means?

Newton’s quarantine: playing with mathematics and changing the science, my quarantine: playing youtube videos I can barely understand

@yousorooo

3 жыл бұрын

Sir Isaac Newton also invented color theory.

Never tired of new Derek

Newton quarantines at home due to a global pandemic and he creates a revolutionary way to solve a mathematical problem. I do it and I just make some bread and gain weight 😩

@GodZefir

6 ай бұрын

Ok, but was the bread good?

Imagine spending 25 years trying to calculate pi but then some 23-year-old just invented a method that does all your work in a few days.

@SpaceLordof75

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, it’s Isaac freakin’ Newton. During that same quarantine, he discovered calculus, optics, and classical mechanics.

@DM0407

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone working with pen and paper during the digital revolution can relate.

@iau

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I do imagine Newton confirmed his results with Van Ceulen's to make sure they were correct.

@squeakybunny2776

3 жыл бұрын

@@iau I doubt it. He already proved his method mathematically which is way more assuring than checking against empirical results... Maybe he compared them but not to confirm his own work I think

@Banydian

3 жыл бұрын

We stand in the shoulders of our ancestors

just imagine how long maths took because of things like roots and stuff. we're lucky to be in the age of calculators

@vejymonsta3006

3 жыл бұрын

Totally. Calculators give anyone the ability to be a mathematician. It's safe to say we wouldn't have most of the technology we use today without them.

@emlun

3 жыл бұрын

Then again, calculators only work because of infinite series expansions much like this one for pi. We are in the age of calculators because mathematicians have worked hard to rewrite complicated functions as quickly converging series of basic arithmetic operations.

@cavvieira

3 жыл бұрын

Books with tables of numbers and functions were a thing when my dad was in college. Fun times, I bet.

@kamo7293

3 жыл бұрын

@@cavvieira yeah I heard from my high school teacher about how to do big multiplications with log tables and such. granted... I got nothing out of it except a headache

@rahimashraf7146

3 жыл бұрын

There is a down to calculators they make it quicker for you to compute but you don't understand the true beauty of what is going inside