A (very) Brief History of Bernhard Riemann

In this episode, I run through the life of Bernhard Riemann. Sadly, he only lived to about 40 years old, unlike Gauss or Euler. Had he lived longer, who knows how much the mathematical boundaries could've been pushed!

Apologies ahead of time for my poor accents when trying to pronounce names. My French pronunciation needs work...

[natepolidoro]

That moment when your PhD advisor is Gauss.

[erawanpencil]

It's crazy seeing that PAINTED portrait of Gauss next to the PHOTO of Riemann, and to hear that his advisor was Gauss. He's like a bridge from the medieval world to the modern. Riemann's non-Euclidian geometry seems like something from a more ancient, simpler, fundamental time, despite the fact that it's used in relativity and QM. Despite its validity, we all still think and feel very Euclidianly. I like to think that as industrialization, determinism, machination, etc was sweeping across the world, people like Riemann maybe kept touch with more medieval or ancient intuitions about the fluidity and wholeness of reality.

[gurk_the_magnificent]

Today I learned it took almost two centuries of active usage for someone to get around to rigorously defining the integral

[helicopterpeace]

I am very grateful that you have put these biographies together. I love mathematicians of that era...

[iridium]

I thought I’m watching some famous math channel that I didn’t know about, your videos are underrated!

[MUFFINHEAD]

I have no clue about maths but this is like a Darth/Jedi channel. Thank you.

[elrisitas]

such a good video, my favorite mathematician probably too all his work was amazing

[weylguy]

Thank you for this video. If Riemann had lived, he would probably have discovered general relativity and eclipsed Einstein. Like Mozart, all I can say is what a damn shame he died so young.

[edidiongedemeka]

Thank you for these much needed video biographies man

[nowhereman]

Berlin eine stadt eine gesellschaft, translating a city of knowledge, he was the first to talk about curved space and he said that we might are living in curved space and einstein added space time without gauss and Riemann we would have had lost 200 years of knowledge.
Thanks Riemann.
By these geniuses we should remember the germans not wars

[tubalcain]

I was nearly born in Hemer, Germany a long time ago. I have written some General Relativity papers. After all this time, I found out that Gottingen is only about a two hour drive from Hemer!

[RSLT]

A great short biography! Very informative! thank you very much!

[shuki]

This is wonderful content hope that you continue to make videos such as this, you are doing wonderful work. Although I would love to see some citations in future videos so I can dig in a bit further.

[Abhijeetetrx]

Great stuff. I hope your channel grows

[mohanace]

Amazing.Thank you very much and keep on doing videos about other great mathematicians.

[Prisha.Mathur]

Thanks for such a wonderful description.

[isakhammer]

Hilarious the way you pronounce Legendre at 2:59, and it is probably the correct way too

[IDrinkandKnowThings]

Thanks for the presentation on my cousin Bernie.

[tftmehdi]

Thanks for making these videos about these geniuses.

[francescaemc]

This is excellent. I am subscribed. IMO, the music is very distracting. Would you want a music vid with background maths? ;)