Carl Gauss was a child prodigy who reinvented mathematics. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and get 20% off your annual premium subscription.
CORRECTION:
@4:44 I showed the wrong compass (massive brain fart). Carl Gauss would not approve
Chapters
0:00 The Most Mathematical Child Who Ever Lived
0:43 Carl’s Early Education and Genius Revealed
1:36 Self-Taught Scholar
2:53 The Revolutionary Discovery of Non-Euclidean Geometry
4:06 The Duke’s Patronage and Academic Success
5:04 Solving the Mystery of His Birthday
6:19 Revolutionary Impact of Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (Arithmetical Investigations)
7:12 Gauss Predicts Planet Ceres
7:58 Gauss Falls in Love
9:08 The Duke’s Dies and Gauss’ New Path
11:04 Finding Love Again
11:54 Mapping the Kingdom of Hanover
13:23 The Earth’s Magnetism
14:21 Carl Gauss’s Legacy
15:05 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant
Sources:
University of Göttingen: By A.Savin – Own work, FAL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=124836092Grace of Carl Gauss: Julian Herzog, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Göttingen Observatory (front view): Par Foto: Michael Paetzold, Lizenz: Creative Commons by-sa-4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=121421415
Göttingen Observatory (rear view): Von Tine – Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34289999
Lüneburg Heath (in order of appearance):
1) By Nikanos – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1245468
2) By Willow – Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2604646
3) By Willow – Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2582154
4) CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4492837
5) By Willow – Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2579882Heliotrope: By Hajotthu, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58421933Victorian Civil Courtroom: Fayerollinson, CC BY-SA 3.0 ttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carl Gauss grave (winter): Longbow4u, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=599114
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40 Comments
@4:44 When you're explaining Gauss's groundbreaking math but can't pick the right compass…TOTAL brain fart
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I thought this video would be about Ramanujan (from the title)
Definitely the greatest
See , how beautiful the maths is..😭😭
just wow…. ❤❤❤
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9:15 "He didn’t just predict the stars… he became one."
Carl Gauss wasn't just a mathematician; he was a true visionary. When astronomers couldn't find the missing planet Ceres, it was Gauss who cracked the code. His precise calculations led to the planet's reappearance—just as he had predicted. A celebrity mathematician—but the world didn't fully understand his genius yet…
I must say Gauss is the God of Mathematics…..The simplicity of his Mathematical ideas is unprecedented.
The sudden transition to brilliant ads caught me off guard 😂
door-uh-TAY-uh? Not door-uh-thee-uh?
Fantastic video! Thank you so much 👍
A sensitive, fitting tribute to a great mathematician. Thanks.
Not the greatest technician that ever lived.
Wait. He didn’t invent linear algebra?
Do the lorentz
Don't forget Archimedes. He developed the first steps of calculus 2000 years before Newton and Leibnitz. I really like his solutions – I always say it looks like calculus done by aliens.
Ascension Day is always Thursday, so the Wednesday before it is the previous day. You might rather have said, "Wednesday of the previous week" to land on April 30th.
One of the most amazing contributions of Gauss to science was non-Euclidean geometry.
Non-Euclidean geometry describes spaces with curvature, like the surface of a sphere.
Gauss had the insight that space may be curved, and even conducted experiments to find out.
Einstein much later used non-Euclidean geometry for his theory of General Relativity, which states that gravity is caused by the curvature of space-time.
Gauss's intuition that space may be curved was pure genius!
Definitely have AI involved in the video it so boring and monotone nothing stand out, the straight edge and compasses got wrong, definitely not even understood the subject matter.
As a medical student, I still love watching videos like this about Maths and Physics, and also understand some advanced concepts that I've never learned in school because I went to the path of medicine instead of Maths and Physics.
Now that's what you call a real man!
1.) Contributed a lot to the world , so much that anyone who is a science student or engineer, cannot escape his name.
2.)) Chose his passion over money and made it his profession.
3.)) Loved his wife , and raised a family.
4.) Though things did not turn out to be good with his personal life , he didn't cry about , and focused on producing ground breaking works .
The compass you pictured is not the compass used in geometry… It's the one you use to make circles, not the one you need to find the north pole…
A friend of mine studying to be an engineer, made it all the way up to Numerical Analysis. He got straight 100's on every single test.
I think it was Neumman but Gauss is a legend
Euler smiling in the corner. 😀
Very impressive, except for the "As far as I can tell" part at 8:16
The greatest mathematician was, perhaps, Euler.
sure!
Probably commented below, but at 4:51 you might have the wrong kind of compass.
Gauss's life story is impressive, but your narration and voice brought it to a new dimension, like a great actress bringing a character to life. It was simply wonderful to hear you tell this story. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
interesting
Here is a man who used this God-given abilities to serve his country, and the world. It was a pleasure to learn of him and his genius.
Why are you guys advertising coinbase which is a total scam? Does this YouTube channel enjoy scamming people? It's interesting talking about mathematics and then advertising a scam company.
4:49 not this kind of compass!
Euler left the chat
Carl said that anyone can make his discoveries if they spent as much hours thinking about maths as he did, contradicting himself when he told his son that he did not have the aptitude for maths, but rather to do law. It is one of the biggest lies to think of human intelligence in terms of certain distinct fields e.g maths, language…Don't even talk about IQ tests, as they really only confirm extremes which needed no IQ tests to begin with. Just a circular way to confirm garbage. Everybody has intellectual power in one field/area or another, which are made visible to the public when they become more developed, are demanded or meet opportunity. Then, we have fields like maths that is a demand, because of the important role it plays in our lives in building, construction, aero-dyamics, space travel and so much more. So, proud people at these universities have taken smarts in these fields/areas to mean that they are more intelligent then others. This has fostered intellectual arrogance. Prodigies are normally gifted in more then one field/area, and with extremely high development in those areas from an early age, but the rest of us need to develop the gift/s and if they discover their own intellectual giftings, no maths genius will be able to own them. No math wiz will be able to beat Magnus Carlsen at chess, Warren Buffett at business, Adam Worth at crime, Micki Maze at gambling, Napoleon at war, Thomas Edison at inventing, Meyer Langsky at organised crime, Albert Gonzalez at hacking, Vincent Van Gogh at painting, Thomas Wolf at writing, Steve Jobs at leadership, Elon Musk at engineering, Michael Jackson at dancing, 2pac at rapping, Shakespeare at poetry, Richard Feynman at physics, James Watson at biology, Michael Faraday at electrical science and so much more. These are the tip of the iceburg for giftings that are more easily measurable. There are those gifting that are very hard to measure and who not recognised. Examples are those who have speaking gifts, manipulation gifts, extreme logical thinking gifts, real world strategy gifts, spacial and imaginative gifts, etc. It's crazy how a poor guy can walk into a casino for the first time and notice things no-one has seen in decades, and use those observations to win crazy amount of money even to get kicked out of the casino(check out Micki Maze). Be yourself to the fullest extent and you will learn your giftings.
9:27 I didn't realise joey was a mathematician
Stop lying. His mom could count beyond 6! What are you smoking to make such a stupid claim!
Leonhard Euler
Gauss was incredible! One thing I learned about his family was that he only has a handful of descendents in Germany but hundreds in America. His son Eugen that he did not think highly of prospered and had many children, grandchildren, etc.