Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Animation vs. Math

[Apocalypse_tank]

"He proved pi! Now will he eat the pie?"
Best Quote ever

[Sir_Uncle_Ned]

Alan could probably be given the concept of watching paint dry and still get a swordfight out of it

[mibadada]

Yay, a reaction from someone who knows the math! I had a lot of fun watching you and the ways you explained stuff from your own POV

[alvelycken]

I'm a programmer.

Edit: changed ~= to == because everyone were confused (I meant ~= as approx. equal to)

[rampatel]

14:22 The function f(•) = 9tan(pi*•) is being applied. So when plugging e^(i*pi) as •, the result is 0, because tan(-pi) is 0.

[trandaiphuc]

You know shit is crazy when "infinity isn't big enough, you need something bigger".

[Skelebot]

Alan Becker is a master storyteller on this platform and his animations never fail to astound the viewer. As you can see, this video is no different and is definitely one of his most creative works. Not sure if the rest of his content would be applicable to your expertise though, since the two main series on his channel are Animator vs. Animation and Animation vs. Minecraft. Anyway, I loved to have heard what you thought about this one. Great reaction!

[blazethewolf]

it's amazing to see how an animation about math got the attention of so many people, from math nerds to teachers to professors and now a literal Nuclear Engineer, OMG

[shamanrauger]

You are the only person i have seen this far who actually understands the content of this video. I had to watch some instructionals and do some research to figure even half of this stuff out. I agree that content like this would greatly increase interest in mathematics. It drew my interest, and im way out of school.

[STAT]

I genuinely have no idea why but this particular video drives me to tears.

[FireyDeath]

This is the only guy I've seen so far who immediately notices some things like the circle blast being multivariable (which is why it breaks the integral) and "e×iτ" meaning "exit" as he watches it

[toddoverholt]

Having the 'antagonist' be e^iπ is such a great idea because its something that you can run into so easily which is very alien and doesnt make sense. And in the beginning when all you have is addition and subtraction it easily eludes you

[johncarlortiz]

TSC(the orange stickman) is how we imagined ourselves when the test say "defend your answer"

[FelanLP]

I saw another "breakdown" video where they explained that the entire video is basically just a ride through the history of math, how every new "invention" or conclusion just again and again shattered everything that was there before which lead to a mathimatical crysis and so on And that this video basically just represented the fight between all mathematicians or so.

[ai-spacedestructor]

2:00 and to extend the list, for a programmer 1 + 1 is 11 because one was a string and the other one got transformed to one and suddenly we went from numbers to text. at least as a web dev, javascript is so fun with automatically redefining value as necessary to keep going at all cost XD

[jehmarxx]

Did you notice that the function gun (that takes literal bullets as input) was briefly shown as a tangent function? That is why it shoots out tangent plots. And when it was caught by the Transformer, it turned into an integral symbol because the shape is similar.

[Mk-msoq]

This is someone's math assignment that their professor gave them to prove it equals -1

[CaptainCFalcon]

See, I've always actually enjoyed math *_itself._* The problems I've had with math *_class_* is the way that the American Board of Education believes math should be *_learned._*
Math has always been about using logic to find answers & solve problems. And translating that knowledge into real life situations is why it's a useful skill. But the way that math class works is that it goes through all of the MANY things of math at a very slow rate & you are punished for attempting to solve a given problem outside of the *_intended_* equation.
Regardless of whether you found the *_correct answer, _* if you failed to solve the problem the way you're *_TOLD_* to. And that's not really what math is about. Math is about questioning what we know as factual & searching for new ways to solve the same problems. It's *_MEANT_* to make you get creative.

[AzphrinxOfficial]

This is the reaction what I want like Experts, Professors, Nuclear Engineers compared to other reactions that are not accurate. We know that there's so many reactions out there

[clemclimacosa]

Really enjoyed this reaction! I knew some of the things that were happening with the complex numbers but it was really fun getting the more complex (pun not intended) parts explained. Your reaction to e^iπ sending Orange home made me laugh really hard, especially since you asked whether the entire animation was gonna prove e^iπ=-1 at 9:22 🤣