Ramanujan's Pi Formula

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  • Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024

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  •  4 года назад +385

    Ramanujan was literally self-educated and he came up with some superb formulas and more. I would say that among the recent 500 years of geniuses Ramanujan definitely deserves a place. That said, computer science of today use many of Ramanujan's formulas because they not only are brilliant, but computers love them with only a few tweaks. What is that? A guy, from India, self-taught in math, provided results that benefits all of the globe today (with just some small tweaks), isn't that GREAT? I am amazed, to say the least.

    • @piratesofphysics4100
      @piratesofphysics4100 4 года назад +31

      He should have lived 80 years. I'm from Bangladesh. My most respected man in the world. He is the most genius man from the big bang.

    • @AdarshRajCR7
      @AdarshRajCR7 4 года назад +20

      If he would have lived till 80 , we would have met aliens already.

    • @hemantkumar9303
      @hemantkumar9303 4 года назад +8

      Indians are genius is every field they opt for especially MATHS.

    • @sowmitriswamy6718
      @sowmitriswamy6718 4 года назад +28

      @@hemantkumar9303 Stop your bragging, it doesn't look good. Geniuses - Newton, Galileo, Gauss, Euler, Einstein, Shakespeare, Darwin, -can be born anywhere.

    • @MABfan11
      @MABfan11 3 года назад +11

      @@piratesofphysics4100 if he had lived to be 80, Fermat's Last Theorem would've been proved much earlier. hell, he would probably be the one to solve the Riemann Hypothesis

  • @priyamshukla8670
    @priyamshukla8670 6 лет назад +665

    Ramanujan was genius.
    We Indian celebrate his birthday as a National Mathematics Day at 22 December.

    • @leif1075
      @leif1075 4 года назад +7

      I feel like I could do what he did..

    • @harshitkumar4760
      @harshitkumar4760 4 года назад +26

      @@leif1075 why not? Anyone can be a genius :)

    • @niteshsrivastava3122
      @niteshsrivastava3122 4 года назад +1

      @@harshitkumar4760 😂😂😂😂

    • @_DD_15
      @_DD_15 4 года назад +16

      @@leif1075 I guess anyone can add all the positive numbers and come out with a negative one. 😂😂

    • @leif1075
      @leif1075 4 года назад +1

      @@_DD_15 Well I can do much more than that.

  • @malcolmbyrne
    @malcolmbyrne 8 лет назад +333

    3:04 wow! Just look at that formula. How can someone "discover" that! That must be real genius. I'm really enjoying this series, thanks.

    • @prajeeshprasannakumar1079
      @prajeeshprasannakumar1079 5 лет назад +35

      When he died he was 32. & Hardy found him when he was at 26.

    • @ddstar
      @ddstar 5 лет назад +4

      he used number theory based on a prime table of 25. I'm sure of it.

    • @musik350
      @musik350 4 года назад +6

      @@ddstar could you elaborate?

    • @adrianbiber5340
      @adrianbiber5340 4 года назад +1

      *3:14

    • @maloxi1472
      @maloxi1472 2 года назад +8

      @@musik350 No, like many lunatics on the internet, he cannot

  • @leobekayombo8087
    @leobekayombo8087 7 лет назад +51

    I like it that you talk about Ramanujan's work. It seems that western mathematicians tend to minimize his contributions. That's not easy though.

    • @RinkuYadav-pn4jo
      @RinkuYadav-pn4jo Год назад +1

      I doubt why he died so early in a era when birtish colonialism and rascism was at its peak

    •  Год назад

      Definitely not -- but my knowledge about Ramanujan begun by a beginner's class of computer science, so I cannot 100% agree with you on the "western" statement ... except the class was about numerical computing and thus not mathematician-only

    • @NetrocMagi
      @NetrocMagi 8 месяцев назад

      They definitely do a lot. I've seen westerners straight up deny Ramanujan and said he made up stuff on his own this lacking proofs. Incredibly ignorant, but I'd have to say none of those westerners seem quite educated on higher mathematics let alone basic math. l@

  • @pierrejeanes
    @pierrejeanes 6 лет назад +146

    wow I wonder what Ramanuja would discover and prove if he wouldn't die so yung

  • @AlexeiRamotar
    @AlexeiRamotar 7 лет назад +719

    Ramanujan's brain must have been wired differently. He saw math.

    • @josed6739
      @josed6739 5 лет назад +10

      Yeah he a mathmatican he knows How to solve partitions

    • @amalsrivastava6853
      @amalsrivastava6853 5 лет назад +37

      Ramanujan said that goddess saraswati would whisper all this in his ears

    • @niemandniemand2178
      @niemandniemand2178 5 лет назад +1

      dumbass

    • @hidgik
      @hidgik 5 лет назад +18

      @@amalsrivastava6853 You got that wrong. It was the Mahalakshmi of Namakkal. Big deal!

    • @stardustreverie6880
      @stardustreverie6880 5 лет назад +28

      @@niemandniemand2178 dumbass

  • @chaoticdays
    @chaoticdays 4 года назад +53

    At 03:14 you say "no one knows how he actually got the formula". GH Hardy has stated that when he asked the same question to Ramanujan, he replied "God talks to me". This dialogue is also shown in the movie 'The man who knew infinity'.

    • @koushikmediga8397
      @koushikmediga8397 2 года назад +5

      I think he is the one who does the math, but as he believes in god, he just thinks that god communicates it to him.

    • @adityaagarwal636
      @adityaagarwal636 2 года назад +5

      @@koushikmediga8397 Actually not. It did happen that her deity goddess came in his dreams and told him the formulas, and then his work was just to prove them!!

    • @adithyadanaj9768
      @adithyadanaj9768 2 года назад +7

      @@adityaagarwal636 yeah that's that's he meant. Our mind works like that. Many scientists have had encounters like that. Where they get answers just after a sleep or having written something in their notebook during sleep. There are accounts for that. Ramanujan just attributed that to his godess but it was he himself who was actually doing it subconsciously. Our subconscious mind is surprisingly more productive when we focus on it

    • @koushikmediga8397
      @koushikmediga8397 2 года назад +1

      @@adithyadanaj9768 yeah that's my point

    • @bv6168
      @bv6168 Год назад

      ​​@@adithyadanaj9768 ramanujam is different than rest of the scientist or mathematician. He is uncomparable

  • @sanketgore8915
    @sanketgore8915 4 года назад +41

    The pi formula that you mentioned which was discovered by Leibnitz was actually discovered by an Indian mathematician named Madhava about 300 years before Leibnitz was even born!

    • @azzteke
      @azzteke 8 месяцев назад

      Leibniz please.

  • @backpropagation8365
    @backpropagation8365 2 года назад +11

    Euler, Gauss, Ramanujan, Jacobi are the true geniuses who spit out concepts after concepts and formulas that are the basic of every math today. Black holes are now being explained by Ramanujan’s mock theta functions discovered by him 80+ years ago, while on his deathbed and wanted to share it right away via a letter to Hardy because he knew it was so important to share. This is quite unexplainable how he could have seen the importance of mock theta functions that early. I do not recall any science genius or even any prominent scientist of having written down a piece of complex math that was applicable to an application that would only be discovered so far into the future. Basically, Ramanujan had the math ready to be put to use to explain a physical discovery that happened way into his future? This is superhuman. No other mathematician ,past or present , was this superhuman. It is quite unexplainable and bizarre actually.

  • @DANGJOS
    @DANGJOS 4 года назад +39

    That man was one of the greatest mathematical geniuses ever!

  • @YazFidz
    @YazFidz 8 лет назад +15

    Hey james, i just wanna say thank you. You're doing a great job at teaching us viewers about math. Keep on keepin on.

  • @omkarpawar14
    @omkarpawar14 8 лет назад +85

    The man who knew infinity.

  • @vector8310
    @vector8310 4 года назад +13

    As an inspiration, Ramanujan is irreplaceable. Euler and he have that effect on me. I'm compelled to take pencil to paper and explore mathematics

    • @yavuz1779
      @yavuz1779 2 года назад

      Evariste Galois too

    • @zwwx2142
      @zwwx2142 Год назад

      @@yavuz1779 yes😎😎😎

  • @brian554xx
    @brian554xx 8 лет назад +281

    A pie formula is called a recipe.

    • @Tfin
      @Tfin 8 лет назад +6

      +Brian Schiefen
      Everyone loves pie, and I want some now. I have no way of accessing pie at this hour.

    • @XoPlanetI
      @XoPlanetI 4 года назад +8

      ReciPIE to be exact.

    • @saw7191
      @saw7191 4 года назад

      brian554xx ReciPI

  • @DaC10101
    @DaC10101 8 лет назад +62

    It's staggering how someone managed to find such an apparently bizarre formula for τ/2...

  • @Roshkin
    @Roshkin 8 лет назад +33

    And as always, if you have been, thank you for watching.

    • @U014B
      @U014B 8 лет назад +7

      IT'S NOT THE SAME! 😣

  • @RSLT
    @RSLT 3 месяца назад

    Look forward to seeing a new Riemann Hypothesis video by you. I believe it will be fantastic. Your insights on such a profound and challenging topic would be incredibly valuable. I've always admired your ability to explain complex mathematical concepts clearly and engagingly. A new video on the Riemann Hypothesis would be an excellent update to your content, and I'm sure many others would benefit from and enjoy it as well. Please do it!

  • @whendaybreaks4317
    @whendaybreaks4317 8 лет назад +19

    2k views. 400 likes. 4:20 long video. my favorite mathematician of all time

    • @dannygjk
      @dannygjk 7 лет назад

      Here is a sobering thought I wonder how many 420 worshipers know that is also Hitler's birthday?

    • @egenriether
      @egenriether 7 лет назад

      Or George Takei..... Oh My.

  • @Low-addition1987
    @Low-addition1987 3 года назад +11

    If ramanujan would have lived 10-15 years more, we would be having the technology of self replicating spacecrafts to go to other planets/galaxies.

  • @idjles
    @idjles 8 лет назад +7

    I've loved this formula for 30 years. Please show us a few terms or how it was derived, or how you get root(8) to X digits

    • @zwwx2142
      @zwwx2142 Год назад

      What formula?

    • @idjles
      @idjles Год назад +1

      @@zwwx2142 Ramanujan‘s pi formula!

    • @ernst9100
      @ernst9100 Год назад

      Ramanujan himself did not derive it from first principles..it was given to him in a dream by the God he believed in. The structure of Benzene which had evaded scientists was revealed to Kekule in a dream. God does miracles thru his chosen subjects . No one can explain how a simple Indian from those days who had no mathematical background in university could solve so many theorems, even attempted to solve Fermat's last theorem, thus came up with the magic number 1729 as the smallest number that can be expressed as sum of two cubes in two different ways...simply amazing

  • @joyjeetdas6821
    @joyjeetdas6821 6 лет назад +4

    ramanujan the best mathematician ever came on earth...proud to be an indian

  • @mridul303
    @mridul303 8 лет назад +153

    Formula for calculating value of PI up to 100 digits
    31415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679/10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

    • @yusufqaddura7103
      @yusufqaddura7103 8 лет назад +6

      lol

    • @ThePerfect1077
      @ThePerfect1077 8 лет назад +4

      +Mridul Tiwary isn't that "evaluates" not "calculates" ?

    • @mridul303
      @mridul303 8 лет назад +4

      +ThePerfect1077 well someone has to do the division, either your brain or a calculator, which will actually "calculate" the final result.

    • @ThePerfect1077
      @ThePerfect1077 8 лет назад +3

      Mridul Tiwary hmmm i wouldn't call it a formula though cos there aren't any variables, nothing u can sub values into. like volume of a cube: v=h^3, u can sub in different values for h into the formula to find the volume

    • @mridul303
      @mridul303 8 лет назад +2

      ThePerfect1077 that's true. Technically, it's a function.

  • @ramanparashar1
    @ramanparashar1 5 лет назад +5

    Ramanujan was on the mathematical scene for only 4-6 years doing Maths along with managing his livelihood in a foreign country, fighting ill-health & prejudices and scores of other issues..
    Researchers are still discovering new things in those 4 years of Mathematics that he has done..

  • @TheMaplestrip
    @TheMaplestrip 8 лет назад +159

    So when are you starting on Crash Course Maths with Matt Parker?

    • @joshnigam7733
      @joshnigam7733 8 лет назад +11

      Yea, Parker squares in general

    • @MrHSX
      @MrHSX 8 лет назад +15

      Oh that'd be so awesome
      Hank recruiting the entire Numberphile team to star on their Maths videos...

    • @TheMaplestrip
      @TheMaplestrip 8 лет назад +8

      Matt said he'd be in for it if James would do it, for what it's worth ;p

    • @onafehts
      @onafehts 7 лет назад

      oh, that reference though haha

  • @piratesofphysics4100
    @piratesofphysics4100 3 года назад +10

    If God told me that ramanujan will come back but I have to die first.
    I would definitely die happily and instantly 😐

  • @petermerrotsy1011
    @petermerrotsy1011 5 лет назад +2

    Well, this result was actually published by Ramanujan in 2014 (QJM, 65, 350-372), hence accomplished before he went to Cambridge, and "values" such as 1103 and 9801 were not "deduced from numerical examples", but arise from his deeper, more genralised work on modular functions.

    • @petermerrotsy1011
      @petermerrotsy1011 4 года назад

      @rf4life Yes, of course, 1914, thank you for the correction.

  • @MOHNAKHAN
    @MOHNAKHAN 7 лет назад +33

    I am proud to say that I am from that Great Land India from where Ramanujan was...

    • @TheVicky3030
      @TheVicky3030 6 лет назад

      Mohna Khan
      He was a "Bootparast".

    • @yahikouzumaki2767
      @yahikouzumaki2767 5 лет назад +4

      You people always need a reason to take pride in something with almost zero effort . Why not do something great and take pride in yourself ?

    • @prateekdalal1659
      @prateekdalal1659 5 лет назад +4

      @naz de even i dnt know from where are you from ? and you are just talking about india, try to make your country proud , dnt take any credit from other counrty . you are so negative like a nil/zero.

    • @prateekdalal1659
      @prateekdalal1659 5 лет назад +5

      @@yahikouzumaki2767 with zero effort LOL, you are the biggest joke , can you count me your contribution regards to your country which provide some impact on other countries ?

    • @prateekdalal1659
      @prateekdalal1659 5 лет назад +3

      @naz de if you cant respect your own country , so its very sad to say you have done nothing in your life and also for others its like a , as you can so you become, now come to the point of cleaner things , you have fully filled with self ego and a uncertainty , i am also lived in Paris but i cant figure out any cleaner things compare to urban city like in india. India is much cleaner than your thoughts .|| Respect from Indian guy ||

  • @peterlindner3283
    @peterlindner3283 Год назад

    What is the third video, since this is "The second video in a series about Ramanujan "? Thanks for your spirited and often enlightening series.

  • @monosizroy7017
    @monosizroy7017 4 года назад +5

    Ramanujan formulae joins the chat
    My brain : Alright imma head right out

  • @pnachtwey
    @pnachtwey 8 лет назад +37

    I used 355/113 as an estimate for PI when I was programming 16 bit micro controllers without floating point. Try it.

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 7 лет назад +4

      Accurate enough for the vast majority of practical applications on Earth.

    • @egenriether
      @egenriether 7 лет назад +1

      without floating point isn't it rounded by the processor to 3? I use the Parallax Propeller (an integer-based controller). If you put in 355/113 for example, I think you just get 3. If there's a workaround I'd like to have it

    • @stevenvanhulle7242
      @stevenvanhulle7242 7 лет назад

      egenriether - I guess he means a FPU, i.e. floating point done in hardware.

    • @egenriether
      @egenriether 6 лет назад +1

      Pedro Pendejo Amigo oh yeah... that seems like it would work. I use floating point libraries now that do the job but I’ll try that sometime. Thanks

    • @RubenHogenhout
      @RubenHogenhout 6 лет назад +3

      2143/22 = pi^4 is even better.

  • @ericvilas
    @ericvilas 8 лет назад +17

    controversial maths? Would that happen to mean Ramanujan sums of divergent infinite series?

  • @wyattarent156
    @wyattarent156 8 лет назад

    What I didn't know you had a personal channel! Instantly subscribed

  • @jackwright2495
    @jackwright2495 8 лет назад +4

    FYI, the stress is on the second syllable of "Ra-MA-nu-jan."
    BTW, 355/113 = 3.141 592 920 = pi * 1.000 000 085!

  • @Yakushii
    @Yakushii 8 лет назад +44

    This might be a hard habit to kick, but Ramanujan was Indian, and the "-man" syllable is the one that should be emphasized. Not the "-u".

    • @EmperorZelos
      @EmperorZelos 8 лет назад +4

      +Yakushii and worship the cow, don't forget the cow worshipping

    • @KevinSolway
      @KevinSolway 8 лет назад +18

      +Yakushii "the "-man" syllable is the one that should be emphasized"
      Not very politically correct in the modern climate!

    • @Yakushii
      @Yakushii 8 лет назад +8

      Kevin Solway - Haha, sorry. I should have said Ramanujan/Womanujan.

    • @EmperorZelos
      @EmperorZelos 8 лет назад +1

      Kevin Solway BURN THE FEMINIST!

    • @AnotherCuber5050
      @AnotherCuber5050 8 лет назад +1

      +Yakushii You're right. It's pronounced as RAA-MAAN-u_Jen

  • @AdarshRajCR7
    @AdarshRajCR7 4 года назад +8

    Ramanujan didn't knew a lot more than any other person. The fact that he studied all the mathematics on his own using a book gifted by his friend is Insane.

    • @GyanTvAmit
      @GyanTvAmit 8 месяцев назад +1

      thats why he ruled brits

  • @VideoMathTutor
    @VideoMathTutor 8 лет назад

    I have a similar abacus as the one on his desk. Had it since the '80s. Love it!

  • @georgemissailidis7581
    @georgemissailidis7581 7 лет назад +3

    Or for a better approximation, 9089/(747√15)...Or for a better approximaion, 116881/(7932√22)...Or for a better approximation, 58651979/(3466840√29)...You see, π ≈ A/(B√C) and there seems to always exist two distinct integers A and B such that A is odd, A > B, and C = 7n + 1, ∀n ∈ ℕ.Now you might say there always exists two integers X and Y to satisfy the equation π ≈ X/Y but if it was instead approximately of the form A/(B√C), then it seems like there exists two integers A and B where this form is accurate to π by at least 6 decimal places ⇔ C = 7n + 1.

  • @sidhambaramaadhimurugan5475
    @sidhambaramaadhimurugan5475 3 года назад +2

    One of the reasons for genius of ramanujan was his food.. What food we eat determines what we are... Food influences our mind , body even our behaviour , our character... Our inteligence , our thinking ....
    Animal flesh , egg will have negative influence on our thinking, (which means not giving high level thinking which means we cannot think broader as well as deeper , if we eat non veg we can able to think little deeper but not clearer )
    Gives Negative to our intelligence growth, (lower intelligence)
    Gives negative to our behaviour and character( anger, hatred, lust , desire, ego, selfish which are all negative or dark)
    Gives the bad karma which is action/reaction which means you do killing and cause pain , then you will get pain frim others
    Ramanujan was vegetarian.... Thats why he doesnt have the bad karma of killing and eating animals.... Thats why gods love energy/light can easily getdown in his consciousness...
    If we eat non veg , we are making our karma darker and thicker that it becomes very very difficult for god energy to enter into us..
    If you are vegetarian its enough...... dont need to be vegan ...

    • @roberthoffenheim7861
      @roberthoffenheim7861 3 года назад +1

      Bullshit. Most great mathematicians in history ate meat. Not saying that eating meat is a good to thing, in fact factory farming is very cruel and the meat industry is destroying the planet, but eating meat is not detrimental to mathematical ability.

  • @geoffklassen9402
    @geoffklassen9402 8 лет назад +3

    And we have been, so you're welcome for watching. ;)

  • @clashott4372
    @clashott4372 4 года назад +7

    The man really knew infinity ♾

  • @bemusedindian8571
    @bemusedindian8571 4 года назад +1

    Its called the Madhava-Leibniz series. Madhava of Sangamagrama is still not recognized for his work. In a way, rightly so, because of very little historical evidence.

  • @megawattapps
    @megawattapps 7 лет назад +2

    Leibniz did not actually come up with that formula you talk about at 1:41, it is miscredited to him. Check out the documentary "The History of Maths" on Netflix it talks about it

  • @Fiyaaaahh
    @Fiyaaaahh 8 лет назад +1

    Will you talk about Ramanujan's almost integer numbers at some point this week? For me that's his works that appeals the most to my imagination. Especially considering he derived them way before any type of serious (digital) calculator was available.

  • @sidorak12814
    @sidorak12814 8 лет назад

    Love that the prime number generator is still on the desk

  • @ApplicationBot
    @ApplicationBot 8 лет назад +188

    I was going to make a joke about forests, but why wood I?

  • @explorewithcate3040
    @explorewithcate3040 4 года назад

    God I love your explanation, I've been watching your videos all day long for goodness

  • @skarumuru
    @skarumuru 3 года назад +1

    The formula for pi you attribute to leibnitz was originally discovered by Sankara , an Indian mathematician some 200 years earlier, leibnitz name still figures in math history books ‘cos - white man invented everything.. great ..

  • @adityaagarwal636
    @adityaagarwal636 2 года назад +1

    0:22 He actually said that his deity goddess came in his dreams to tell all those unproved formulas to him, and then he just tried to prove all these afterwards. That's why there are still no proves to many of his formulas, but all of them work....

  • @jamespklett
    @jamespklett 8 лет назад

    What is that device on your desk behind you? And are those markers or tapes to the right? Can't make them out, just curious - thanks for your videos !!!!

  • @astrovert.ed2321
    @astrovert.ed2321 4 года назад +2

    Hi, this is very informative. I have seen formulae by Ramanujan and the Chudnovsky brothers, but how do these compare in accuracy with the actual value of pi?

    • @ernst9100
      @ernst9100 Год назад

      There is no actual value of pi.....it goes on and on to infinity, just like the number e

    • @astrovert.ed2321
      @astrovert.ed2321 Год назад

      @@ernst9100 Noted Sir. But generally these two would align with the actual irrational value to what extent?

  • @lindy7985
    @lindy7985 8 лет назад +27

    Math geeks complaining about too much mail?

  • @ParticleJesus
    @ParticleJesus 8 лет назад +5

    Get your calculators ready, the _-1/12_ series is coming.

  • @ITsmapleTimexD
    @ITsmapleTimexD 8 лет назад +2

    KEEP IT COMING! I'M LOVING IT!

  • @stellagilbert
    @stellagilbert 8 лет назад +8

    Love these!!

  • @Robert-so3oi
    @Robert-so3oi 8 лет назад +3

    "Everyone loves pi!" Tell that to vihart :)

  • @marcschmidtpujol550
    @marcschmidtpujol550 4 года назад +1

    Do you know if he really did write sqrt(8) instead of 2sqrt(2)? Would really like to know!! Good video :)

  • @logaandm
    @logaandm 4 года назад +1

    11-33-55 easy to remember. Last three divided by first three is 355/113 = 3.1415929.... and is pi to 6 decimal places or 27 parts in 100 million. Not as accurate as Ramanujan's formula which is 7.6 parts in 100 million, but easier to remember. So only estimate the circumference of the earth to about 3.5 meters.
    e can be estimate with 335588/123456 but this is only about 160 parts in 100 million
    Just in case you forget your slide rule.

  • @twertygo
    @twertygo 8 лет назад +8

    looking forward to the next video since I don't know how math is going to be controversial :)

    • @WatchingTokyo
      @WatchingTokyo 8 лет назад +4

      Maybe something related to 1 + 2 + 3 + ... = - 1/12

    • @hadensnodgrass3472
      @hadensnodgrass3472 8 лет назад

      +WatchingTokyo No, the document he sent to Cambridge had already deduced that. So it unlikely Grime would use that, plus it has already been done a thousand and one times.

    • @inkolore2
      @inkolore2 8 лет назад

      +twertygo If you want to see controversy you just need to check the comment section of some of Numberphile's videos, like 1+2+3+ ... = -1/12, problems with zero, infinity paradoxes.

    • @twertygo
      @twertygo 8 лет назад

      +IceNoob88 But it's all just logical and makes sense!

    • @bonbonpony
      @bonbonpony 8 лет назад +1

      +twertygo Then jump into some math forum and ask if √4 = +2 or -2, or just the +2 ;)
      (On second thought: _don't_ :P )

  • @kyanite1164
    @kyanite1164 2 года назад

    Can you please post your resources!! I would love to read more and where you got your info from!!

  • @SuperYoonHo
    @SuperYoonHo 2 года назад +1

    awesome!

  • @shashanksistla5400
    @shashanksistla5400 8 лет назад +1

    Another great video!

  • @TimJSwan
    @TimJSwan 4 года назад +2

    Hilbert was a normal human who made sense.
    Godel was a guy who was rational.
    Einstein was a regular man who understood logic.
    Euler was a reasonable husband and father.
    Galois was a talented bachelor.
    Ramanujan.. Compared to them, he was like an insane alien genius who must have obtained non-finite intuition from spiritual beings.
    Screw what Hardy said about him being 100 and Hilbert being an 80, they are all 1's and he's still at the limit of 100 on that scale. We can't figure out where he was because nothing he figured out was anywhere near normal. Go look at his work for yourself. It was strange and different. It wasn't even proofs or restricted to logic systems. He had crazy intuition results and approximations which are insanely accurate yet not precisely the function, so all the more curious how he developed them.

    • @a6hiji7
      @a6hiji7 3 месяца назад

      He was a genius with a great intuition similar to the likes of Gauss but I think it was the lack of formal training and the lack of guidance in formal research which contributed towards his early work being more based on intuitions.

  • @earlystrings1
    @earlystrings1 8 лет назад +1

    I have a dim sense that Leibnitz's infinite sum to approximate pi is doing, in essence, what Archimedes was doing with his calculation of ever-more-sided inscribed and circumscribed polygons. But I am as far from being a mathematician as it is possible to be. Perhaps someone can explain if this in any way correct?

  • @MrDarkNomad
    @MrDarkNomad 3 года назад

    I appreciated the energy and content

  • @sirfermainclancharlie1018
    @sirfermainclancharlie1018 5 лет назад +3

    Gosh such a smart fellow

  • @Doggyshakespeare
    @Doggyshakespeare 8 лет назад +208

    3:53 "But, everyone loves pi"
    No. #taumasterrace

    • @ZardoDhieldor
      @ZardoDhieldor 8 лет назад +17

      tau>pi

    • @robin888official
      @robin888official 8 лет назад +67

      +Zardo Dhieldor And 7>tau, what's your point? ;-)

    • @palmomki
      @palmomki 8 лет назад +12

      +Zardo Dhieldor that's literally true!

    • @ZardoDhieldor
      @ZardoDhieldor 8 лет назад +1

      +palmomki Not only literally though! :)

    • @Sparton646real
      @Sparton646real 8 лет назад +16

      +Zardo Dhieldor Pi gets you to the other side of the circle, tau gets you nowhere.

  • @ankitdhage8748
    @ankitdhage8748 4 года назад +4

    From his behaviour I can say that he is one of those genius away from world affairs.🙁

  • @jonathanschossig1276
    @jonathanschossig1276 7 лет назад +1

    Is that the prime number generator in the background?

  • @_jenaissante_
    @_jenaissante_ 8 лет назад

    Always love Jame Grime's videos!!

  • @LesleLeBang
    @LesleLeBang 3 года назад +2

    -Take the first three odd integers: 1,3,5
    -Double them thusly: 113355
    -Divide the last three by the first three thusly: 355/113
    There ya go, Pi accurate to 6 decimal places!

    • @doserastalmi
      @doserastalmi 2 года назад

      logic behind this?

    • @adithyadanaj9768
      @adithyadanaj9768 2 года назад +1

      @@doserastalmi I think it's more of an intuition. And he was just offering a simple method to remember and apply it

  • @ThePlatinumPenguinHD
    @ThePlatinumPenguinHD 8 лет назад +44

    4:20 video length... Coincidence?

    • @keira_churchill
      @keira_churchill 8 лет назад +84

      +ThePlatinumPenguinHD - 4:20 is 260 seconds. 260/π/e = 30.4. 30.4 years is the age Ramanujan was when he was admitted to the Nursing Hostel in Cambridge. I assume that's the coincidence you're referring to.

    • @adityakhanna113
      @adityakhanna113 8 лет назад +8

      +Keira Churchill WOW!

    • @factsverse9957
      @factsverse9957 8 лет назад +7

      In phone it is 4:21 ;( But I believe it is 4:20

    • @dannygjk
      @dannygjk 7 лет назад

      Here is a sobering thought I wonder how many 420 worshipers know that is also Hitler's birthday?

    • @npm1811
      @npm1811 6 лет назад

      It’s because my dude James Grimes smokes the dutty stinky loud on the RE-GU-LAR my friends

  • @user-gl1kq7si5y
    @user-gl1kq7si5y 6 месяцев назад

    Pi is equal to 3.142696805... square root 2 times 2.2222222... if you have circle with radius equal to square root 2x4.5 the circumference is 40 exactly. The area is equal to the square root of 16,200

  • @saintcelab3451
    @saintcelab3451 8 лет назад +5

    I love Nottingham accent

  • @jaggubhai44
    @jaggubhai44 4 года назад

    You could be a good teacher.you explains complex things very understandable and easily comprehensible

  • @ffggddss
    @ffggddss 5 лет назад

    In Ramanujan's day, there were already *far* better formulas for π than Leibnitz' aesthetically beautiful, but computationally atrocious formula.
    [And actually, by using some convergence acceleration techniques, this can actually be turned into a (barely) useful computational tool.]
    John Machin's formula of 1706,
    ¼π = 4tan⁻¹(⅕) - tan⁻¹(1/239)
    using the Taylor series for arctan was, for instance, far superior. And this formula was further improved in 1789 by Jurij Vega.
    These are the proper objects of comparison for rating Ramanujan's formula, which was still a vast improvement, even over these.
    Secondly, I would like to have heard what if anything has been done to ferret out Ramanujan's method of arriving at his formula.
    Since it has been improved on (by the Chudnovski's), and is used today to compute π, there surely must at least be a proof of its validity?
    Fred

  • @youssefbenhachem993
    @youssefbenhachem993 4 года назад +1

    But how did he get to the formula ?? I mean it's quite weird to find such result in the first of the 20th century . Only one possibilty is left , which is he was seeing maths far more differently than anybody.

  • @randomreviews5693
    @randomreviews5693 4 года назад +2

    My brother who is engineering topper says physicists are afraid of none but Mathematicians.

  • @marlenepoblet555
    @marlenepoblet555 4 года назад +1

    A new subscriber! Thanks

  • @DRD363
    @DRD363 8 лет назад

    how about a video on the roots of 200, 64, 90, and 30 and their relationship to each other.

  • @tigerdalandan
    @tigerdalandan 4 года назад

    Yay! When I saw your face, I immediately remembered Numberphile.

  • @josepereira2759
    @josepereira2759 8 месяцев назад

    Profesor, i have a doubt. Ok, ramanujan's formula is incredible, but it uses √8 which also has to be aproximated, right? What is the point of having an approximation for a irrational number using an irrational number? Like, is it computationaly easier to estimate √8 than pi??

  • @pneptun
    @pneptun 8 лет назад

    that's all good and well but WHY does this formula work; what's the theory behind it? That's why i came here. Found the formula elsewhere, can't make sense of the wiki page related to it so i was hoping for an explanation here :-/

  • @Eric-im6eq
    @Eric-im6eq 2 года назад

    How about dividing 16 by 113 plus 3, that will also give Pi with six correct digits. With help of my HP-35s calculator.

  • @Hampardo
    @Hampardo 6 лет назад +94

    This is my formula for approximating pi... pi ≃ 31415926535/10000000000... it's good up to 10 decimal places... Am I smarter than Ramanujan? I think so.

    • @_aka5h
      @_aka5h 5 лет назад +4

      Definitely

    • @josed6739
      @josed6739 5 лет назад +1

      No

    • @josed6739
      @josed6739 5 лет назад

      Do you know How to solve Paratitions?

    • @VishalKumar-lk1pt
      @VishalKumar-lk1pt 5 лет назад +3

      Oh yeah you are

    • @jimmythewig3354
      @jimmythewig3354 5 лет назад +8

      Ramanujan's formula was an infinite sum that would have resulted in exactly pi. The bit that was to 6 decimal places was just the first term. Ramanujan's first two terms would have beaten your approximation.

  • @madhukaraphatak
    @madhukaraphatak 8 лет назад

    Loving this series.. Keep it up

  • @SurprisedDivingBoard-vu9rz
    @SurprisedDivingBoard-vu9rz 3 месяца назад

    When something cracks it usually has a random direction pattern. And the universe should have cracked that way. Usually random direction of Big Bang. And why because if you put things together and keep on building then when something crash it takes time in different directions. Though symmetry is a localised pattern of numbers. Pi is about symmetry rather than random. Whenever you need symmetry which is supposed to be more stable you have to use Pi. Even if you take distant galaxies the spectrum of them gives the symmetry elements of the galaxy. Almost 90% are hidden space of the random. Light can come only from electrons transitions of nucleus disstable. That too relative.

  • @arunnayak3571
    @arunnayak3571 7 лет назад +14

    Ancient Indian history shows many evidences where many mathematical formulae were already being used.

  • @jayrajganatra8782
    @jayrajganatra8782 8 лет назад +1

    Can anyone please explain how Ramanujan derived the formula. I know he addressed it but I didn't fully understand.

  • @GB-gi6ft
    @GB-gi6ft 4 года назад

    ramanujan and blackhole..pls make a video on it too

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 5 лет назад +1

    When I see these formulae by Ramanujan and the like (and there have been few like him), I wonder how did they arrive at it, then I wonder if the presenter or professor (from my university days) is pulling some sort of prank on us, much like an April Fool's prank. Finally I realize, to paraphrase Hardy, they must be real equalities and formulae because "nobody" would have the imagination to invent them. [Actually, there have been a few such imaginative mathematical pranks, such as Martin Gardner's April Fool's prank during the mid-70s, and published in Sci.Am.]

    • @rmadhuram
      @rmadhuram 4 года назад

      In fact, G.H.Hardy thought it was a prank by Littlewood when he got those papers from Ramanujan! (See: ruclips.net/video/ay1RCfQkrWQ/видео.html)

  • @shahbazsheikh3545
    @shahbazsheikh3545 5 лет назад

    So what is applications of these pi formulas? Don't we already know pi to be 22/7 (or is that also an approximation formula)?

  • @Ace1King1
    @Ace1King1 6 лет назад

    There is only one number that consecutively repeats itself nine times in the first one and a half billion digits of pi. What is the 10 digit number and where does it begin in the sequence?

  • @peanut12345
    @peanut12345 4 года назад

    Tell me all the pi formulas used to make tires, cans, china, pistons, windows,pizzas, etc? They all use 6 numbers.

  • @leif1075
    @leif1075 4 года назад

    How did Ramanujan and Leibniz come up with those formulae?

  • @jhonyangarita9961
    @jhonyangarita9961 5 лет назад

    son muy buenos tus vídeos

  • @rishith1935
    @rishith1935 5 лет назад

    He said "The devi(goddess) bleeds maths in me",
    which is beyond our understanding.

  • @DRD363
    @DRD363 8 лет назад

    finally!!!! The Pi equation is shown!!

  • @ihebchagra9332
    @ihebchagra9332 8 лет назад +4

    James Grime seems very excited about this movie.
    I wouldn't have such high expectations.I am praying they don't add a dancing scene like every other movie about indians.

    • @adityakhanna113
      @adityakhanna113 8 лет назад

      Haha!!! Right, they make everything Indian Bollywood!

    • @glialcell6455
      @glialcell6455 8 лет назад +1

      +Iheb Chagra For some reason every Bollywood movie I have ever watched had exactly six, evenly spaced dance scenes, and they were all cancer. Just an observation.

  • @rickerbarren8469
    @rickerbarren8469 6 лет назад +2

    bro first one is madhav formulae

  • @theaweary
    @theaweary 7 лет назад

    Ramanujan said he was viewing colourful pictures when he was generating formulas. After he came to Britain his supplier refused to follow him that is why he died