A (very) Brief History of David Hilbert

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In this episode, we cover the history of 19th and 20th century German mathematician David Hilbert, most notable for his axioms on geometry and his 1900 list of 23 unsolved problems plaguing mathematics. As per usual, any mathematics I go into is surface level, and I mostly survey Hilbert's life.

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Amazing. I met E. Wigner briefly circa 1983 and have a brief anecdote about our encounter. I had no idea at the time that he knew or studied with D. Hilbert. I related my anecdote to the project manager for the translation of all of Einstein’s papers at Princeton and he was amused and entertained by it in a kind and jovial way

dougr.

Good stuff as always, david hilbert absolutely popped off!

JackHDW

I was so desperately waiting for this. Thank you. Keep it up 👍.

rishavkarki

How did I just find this channel?! Awesome work!

Self-Duality

Nice video, I apreciate your efort, keep up the good work

anceaipv

I enjoy history of mathematics, thank you!

gucker

This video is chock full of important references to books, published papers and history, for instance Léopold Kronecker being merciless in his criticism of Georg Cantor’s work. Today, we are much more adjusted to the concept of infinity containing and covering other infinities, along with the visible universe being much much more vast than ever expected in the early 1920s, and the existence of an even larger unexplored and invisible vast portion of it

dougr.

That was not a brief history at all, for the total of 22 minutes long on this mathematician monster. it appears short but you have given us everything, I thank you.

littledimon

Thanks for recording the history of Hilbert math Prof, good job, bless his math work, Hilbert geometry, very important, critical. Uses today amen

rayrocher

Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile. Hilbert received blood transfusions for his anemia. Richard Courant was then Director of the Mathematical Institute and he volunteered as the blood donor. With the rise of anti-Semitism at the time, and the many great Jewish mathematicians at Gottingen, it was said that now the entirety of Gottingen's Mathematical Institute, including even Hilbert had Jewish blood flowing through their veins. This sad account is from George Polya's published photographic history of his years in the German mathematics community of the time. Courant soon relocated to NYU (their mathematical institute known as the Courant Institute) and others relocated throughout the U.S., U.K., and even the Soviet Union.

robertschlesinger