Timeline of Greatest Mathematicians

[takumamori]

I was moved by the fact that the life of a great man in history was spent for each of the theorems we have learned easily.

[josefholba]

It's criminal to not put Galois and Gödel there, both probably top 10 most influential mathematicians.

[huiyinghong]

My most 'Advanced' University Undergrad Mathematics that i learnt was invented around the 1800s, imagine how much more Math there is to learn.

[xraygamer]

Lebesgue, Godel, Weil, Galois, Jordan, Peano, Kolmogorov Borel, Banach, Liouville, Artin, Klein, Chebyshev, Minkowski, Hausdorff and D’alembert are some mathematicians left out

[imshiruba]

from arithmetic, to geometry, to trigonometry, to calculus. just wow

[FilledWithDetermination]

It's cringe how school makes math seem so lame when in reality its like the coolest thing ever. One day I hope to at least be able to understand the language even if I can never speak it.

[theknightikins]

I like how every major civilization had their time to shine for math. It started with the Greeks, then shifted to the Indians. Later the Persians and Muslims took charge until the Chinese began making headway. Then, things would shift into Northern Europe for some time until modern day where Germany and the Americans have their moment. It’s so cool to see everyone contribute in some way from the whole world.

[scottpollock]

1. I did not realize how far back math goes.
2. I did not realize that even men 2600 years ago had a firmer grasp of math than I do today.
3. I find it amazing that these concepts were continued to be built on for thousands of years. Imagine today you make a discovery in math that for the next 2500 years, the most brilliant minds in the world continue to build upon.

[ChallHatt]

I just saw the faces of people whose theories, formulas and methods I have been using for I don't know how long and to realize that they were doing all this back in the 1600s and 1700s is just amazing. In some ways, they are still living through me as I use their ideas. This is inspiring to say the least!😮

[thisisakoolname]

Legendre's portrait is legendary.

[yuwumi]

I absolutely love Euler. Obviously he was going to be here, but boy was I still happy to see him. His identity, in my opinion, is one of the most amazing displays of mathematics that we have

[OsvaldoBayerista]

Shotout to my man Ahmes. He was an ancient Egyptian scribe who lived towards the end of the Fifteenth Dynasty (and of the Second Intermediate Period) and the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty (and of the New Kingdom). He transcribed the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a work of ancient Egyptian mathematics that dates to approximately 1550 BC; he is the earliest contributor to mathematics whose name is known. He's also the first mathematician to use fractions. Ahmes claimed not to be the writer of the work but rather just the scribe. He claimed the material came from an even older document from around 2000 B.C

[lexced]

I cant believe there was a super saiyan mathematician in 1752… the world is full of surprises

[brianmaresca]

Well done, with a few notable exceptions. Not sure if you had a mathematical historian review the presentation before publication, but it's a bit hard to see how you could have missed Evariste Galois (1811-1832), widely regarded as one of the most penetrating mathematicians of all time (for whom Galois Theory is named), as well as Charles Hermite (1822-1901) number theory, quadratic forms, and invariant theory, to name three areas Hermite developed in addition to mentoring Henri Poincare, and Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932), a principal architect of logic and Set Theory.

[prestonwhite]

So no one is talking about the elephant in the room? Adrien Legendre portrait? Its absolutely hilarious

[IantoCannon]

I was surprised to see the later theories are not necessarily the most complicated ones. Cantor and Poincare for example.

[param]

Truely outstanding video - no other video had this much detail in such a concise way

[EdKolis]

I like seeing all the names from different cultures, how different periods of history had their mathematicians coming from different places - first Greece, then India, then Arabia, and so on!

[MicaFarrierRheayan]

I love the way it moves and the aided you add to present it.

[Doffel]

Its crazy that there are so many rules and theorems of mathematics that are built on each other. Only for me to use it on a random high school test