@fern-tv
Thank you for the opportunity to collab 😊 Fantastic video!
@kunai9809
"Proof?" "It was revealed to me in a dream."
@fatroberto3012
I never cease to be amazed that mathematicians hundreds of years ago could visualize things that normal people just cannot see without a computer simulation showing them what it is that the equations are telling them. My research (engineering not math) involved modeling of electromagnetic fields to predict charged particle motion and without computers I would have got nowhere. My supervisor could just look at the equations and "see" it straight away! His ability to simply strip away 90% of a complicated problem because he understood that it was irrelevant, leaving something even I could solve, was awesome.
@stevenstrogatz1
Thanks for having me on again :-) And hey Veritasium fans: Sorry I messed up the numbers while getting emotional about Ramanujan. Here's the right version of the story, quoted from Robert Kanigel's book on Ramanujan: " [Hardy] would contrive an informal scale of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 and Littlewood a 30. To David Hilbert, the most eminent mathematician of the day, he assigned an 80. To Ramanujan he gave 100.” ― Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
@Grey_Warden189
Goldbach: Every even number >2 is the sum of two primes. YouTube: Every 2 minutes is the sum of two ads.
@VEE727
"write the formula on his tongue" is like a proverb in India meaning the goddess spoke through him - not to be taken literally.
@AvianYuen
The explanation of the circle method was one of the most beautiful explanations I have seen on YouTube. This is quickly becoming my favourite maths channel, even while maths isn't your focus! Great work
@tst_09
You know you’re looking at the next mathematician of the century when you see a guy reading a math textbook during an air raid
@Xingchen_Yan
I am a Chinese and grew up in China's education system. To most students, Chen's story was sometimes used as a counter example as how one can be so into math so he became delusional. One commonly referred story is that he bought a truck load of cup noodle to eat everyday just to solve this. But I was lucky enough to have a highschool math teacher that is very passionate about such topics and he lightened us with this story like 15 years ago. I feel really grateful for that. This video just reminds me of all those things and yeah, it is such a great video. Thank you Veritasium.
@kruksog
For anyone who isnt already a math nerd, the part where Derek guesses Leonhard Euler (said "oil-er") is a little funny moment, because Euler shows up nearly everywhere in math. There is a joke that many things in math are named after the first person to discover them after Euler. There is a shockingly long wikipedia article entitled "List of topics named after Leonhard Euler." Hopefully at least one person reading this wasn't already aware of this "maths inside joke."
@Bravo-oo9vd
12:53 Hardy: Source? Ramanujan: It came to me in a dream.
@Silver-bq6td
Euler is everywhere in math it’s like the guy invented math.
@vertassium
Veritasium x Fern collab is crazy
@Glorious_Potato
14:23 in the footnote, Hardy rates him a 100 factorial. Well, Ramanujan deserves it.
@aatrox5559
my physics lecturer says: "If someone says that something is obvious, they don't really know what they're talking about"
@johnhoover5431
The true question: How many times will the thumbnail change?
@AcheOcho
14:08 Hardy casually gives mathematicians power levels like anime characters.
@dmadalengoitia
29:31 I'm from Peru and I remember when they announced he proofed the weak conjecture, he was like a rockstar amongst scholars here
@NovaLightAngel
This video is amazing! Thank you for this! Chen’s story and struggle broke my heart. I appreciate you highlighting his story. I also want to thank you for continuing to use origin art in your videos! The AI slop has proliferated so many channels it’s absolutely refreshing to see major producers stick to real artwork. 🦄
@arshil6249