The Story of (almost) All Numbers

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  • @jessicafernanda11
    @jessicafernanda11 2 года назад +10152

    Gruk is the most underrated mathematicians of all time

    • @WinterNox
      @WinterNox 2 года назад +165

      Rip geuk

    • @BlackEyedGhost0
      @BlackEyedGhost0 2 года назад +250

      Just imagine that his name was actually "Two", and suddenly he's the most well known name in all of mathematics. Without a documented history of him, we can't really say his name wasn't Two.

    • @gyanprakashrai9412
      @gyanprakashrai9412 2 года назад +61

      Also the indians' and their contribution in the world have been underrated especially in ancient and middle ages later scholarly works declined during 750 years of foreign occupation(Turks, mughal, then british) time but still happy that some people are spreading the word now
      Some of the Contributions of india to the world-
      Mathematics, Astrology, Ayurveda, Yoga, Zero, Toilet( atleast 2500 BCE), Chess, Shampoo, Wireless Communication, Buttons, Cure of leprosy and lithiasis, Cataract surgery and cosmetic surgery (2000 BCE), Natural fibres that are used in clothes(since 5th millennium BCE) , Ink, Fiber optics, Heena, apart from these USB and Intel Chip were also invented under indians. I know other countries have also made a lot of contribution to world but just wanted to let people know about a country what some arrogant people in West termed at times as tribal, uncivilized land...So this is a tight slap on their face.
      Sorry if someone is hurt but that is fact west has demeaned indian culture a lot without trying to understand except few unbiased indologists and orientalists.

    • @MynameisS_A
      @MynameisS_A 2 года назад +30

      @@gyanprakashrai9412 Indians have contributed way too much, but as told in the video, Arabs liked to tell that it was their discovery instead that of Indians. This tells a lot about how Arabs and the outside forces were in the Middle Ages and before that. They only wanted their own fulfilment and the idea that someone would do such a thing is absolutely disgusting and heart-wrenching…
      As a maths student, I can say that this is equivalent to disrespecting someone’s grave after they have died…

    • @hacfret5693
      @hacfret5693 2 года назад +1

      Our ancestors keep fighting with their own people, so yeah not suprised if somone got big booty that kick eachother ass then stole and rewrite their history.
      Well if you compare that shitty situation to these modern times, ya can see how the chinese are so advancing in technologies, heck even they built their own space station, but still most of our media are being controlled by the west so we're not paying attention to those chinese. It's a same situation but different approach. lmao, humans are stupid af

  • @clips5518
    @clips5518 2 года назад +9207

    this man basically explained the math lore

    • @__nog642
      @__nog642 2 года назад +82

      A small glimpse into it

    • @jonathasantoz
      @jonathasantoz 2 года назад +394

      The gameplay is way harder than the lore.

    • @yurithnovasyndicate3910
      @yurithnovasyndicate3910 2 года назад +28

      @@jonathasantoz I still remember the days fondly in the library as our classroom while our other school was being [cleaned up]. learning the basics of how to the sum of matics and mathe works.

    • @annaclarafenyo8185
      @annaclarafenyo8185 2 года назад +6

      Skipping the most important numbers of all, invented by Cantor in the 1880s.

    • @ijemand5672
      @ijemand5672 2 года назад +5

      Pretty badly, but it was funny

  • @brandonklotz1207
    @brandonklotz1207 Год назад +270

    You lost me after two rock

    • @DenouementBob
      @DenouementBob 7 месяцев назад +1

      Same

    • @Ghoulser
      @Ghoulser 6 месяцев назад +3

      He lost me after rock

    • @JesusPlsSaveMe
      @JesusPlsSaveMe 4 месяца назад

      To everyone in this chat, Jesus is calling you today. Come to him, repent from your sins, bear his cross and live the victorious life..

    • @TomTomTankTom
      @TomTomTankTom Месяц назад +3

      ​@@JesusPlsSaveMeAh yes, I've sinned because I'm looking at a video about the very thing that enables thinking. Something that Christians & God seem to despise since it leads people out of indoctrination lol.

    • @BoringBoris1
      @BoringBoris1 Месяц назад +1

      You haven’t sinned by watching this video he’s just saying to repent your other sins

  • @KMOLP987
    @KMOLP987 2 года назад +5184

    Also, Pythagoras didn’t discover that root 2 was irrational, but someone within the cult of Pythagoras did. As the story goes, Pythagorean principles centered around the belief that the world could be perfectly expressed through numbers and ratios, however a simple mathematical proof was discovered that contradicted that belief. It is also rumored that the man who discovered this was murdered by the cult of Pythagoras either to cover it up or for blasphemy as mathematics at the time was treated basically religiously.

    • @baltofarlander2618
      @baltofarlander2618 2 года назад +158

      I know different version of the story, slightly more "justified" - irrationality of sqrt(2) was kept as a secret in Pythagorean cult as it was hard to deal with that fact according to their beliefs, and someone blurted it out, so he got executed by them for telling secrets to outsiders rather than heresy.

    • @brutusthebear9050
      @brutusthebear9050 2 года назад +54

      It wasn't treated religiously. It was the religion of Croton during that time. It was inspirational to Plato, in helping develop his world of Forms. You see, the Pythagoreans believed that math was the fundamental building block of everything, and that math existed in a pure form. Plato took this and ran with it.
      Thank math that Aristotle came around to set things straight. Good thing nothing will happen to all the work he's done. No one will willingly choose to believe in Platonic ideals when reality is so important, right? Aristotle isn't gonna be lost in the West for over 1000 years, right?

    • @BarnabyTheEpicDoggo
      @BarnabyTheEpicDoggo 2 года назад +14

      Some say he was exiled from publishing his findings, others say he was drowned

    • @Vysair
      @Vysair 2 года назад +8

      @@brutusthebear9050 It's still not wrong to say math is the building blocks of the world since they are able to describe the world

    • @brutusthebear9050
      @brutusthebear9050 2 года назад +40

      @@Vysair Math is descriptive of reality, that is true. But, that is not what Pythagoreans believed. They believed that math was the *real* reality.

  • @connorwright7040
    @connorwright7040 2 года назад +2181

    1:00
    For anyone wondering how you can count to 1024 on just your fingers, count in binary. Each finger can either represent a zero by being down, or a one by being up.
    With ten fingers, you can count up to 2¹⁰ or 1024

    • @mrocto329
      @mrocto329 2 года назад +41

      isn't it 2^10 + 2^9 + ... + 2 + 1, since you can count upto 11111111111?

    • @connorwright7040
      @connorwright7040 2 года назад +146

      @@mrocto329 1111111111 would be 1+2+4+8+16+32+64+128+256+512 for a total of 1023. (you have 1024 possible combinations but 0000000000 is just zero)

    • @mrocto329
      @mrocto329 2 года назад +34

      @@connorwright7040 No clue what I was thinking when I wrote that tbh, I guess I was too lazy to write 10 digits of 1's and convert to base 10?

    • @magorovthegreat6801
      @magorovthegreat6801 2 года назад +9

      Not really simce you need both hands and its humanly impossible to raise ring finger without little finger or middle finger without helping with other hand. So you miss numbers like 8 for example lol. So just 2^8 is more realistic maximum value

    • @lolwhot
      @lolwhot 2 года назад +26

      It is said that if a binary number has _n_ ciphers, you can count _2^n_ numbers, from _0_ to _(2^n)-1._
      Having 10 fingers, you can count from 0, up to 1023.

  • @hugorodriguez8672
    @hugorodriguez8672 2 года назад +276

    4:00 for anyone wondering, this number is 69420.

  • @Writer_Productions_Map
    @Writer_Productions_Map 2 года назад +1127

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introduction
    0:40 - Counting Numbers
    1:25 - The First Written Numbers
    1:50 - Origins of the Fractions
    2:37 - Rationals Numbers
    3:40 - Roman Maths
    4:19 - The Infinite Concept
    5:03 - Negative Numbers?
    5:40 - The Zero in India
    6:27 - Numbers Systems
    7:56 - Calculus, Calculus, Calculus...
    8:42 - Complex Numbers
    9:35 - PI Number
    10:32 - E Number
    11:07 - End
    Btw, the result is LXIXCDXX (69420). Deciphered by "Owuraku Asare"

    • @josephbevan1036
      @josephbevan1036 2 года назад +26

      And the subtraction result should be MCCCLIV, or 1354.

    • @carlofrancisco1501
      @carlofrancisco1501 2 года назад +15

      3:14- Pythagoras

    • @shivamchouhan5077
      @shivamchouhan5077 2 года назад +5

      @@carlofrancisco1501 lol timestamp is at π

    • @HaveANiceDayLol.
      @HaveANiceDayLol. 2 года назад +3

      @@shivamchouhan5077 Imagine if the timestamp followed the pi decimal with infinite precision and we just don't know it

    • @ethansolomonsaviogodfrey4517
      @ethansolomonsaviogodfrey4517 2 года назад +1

      LXIXCDXX is not 69420 its believe it or not: 689
      MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMCCCCXX is 69420

  • @Danymok
    @Danymok 2 года назад +3793

    It's interesting how when we look back, we realize how inefficient other older number systems were, but ours seems so good. Imagine on the future our number system is looked at like we see the ancient Sumerian one

    • @cosmo_4785
      @cosmo_4785 2 года назад +49

      i thought the same things

    • @renaissanceAgain
      @renaissanceAgain 2 года назад +214

      Even if we invent new number system, it probably would be based on our system, at least because it was used everywhere and it will be too expensive to change it. But I want to see new digits for hexadecimal system instead of letters

    • @dat1pengu1n
      @dat1pengu1n 2 года назад +2

      hello checkmark

    • @LancesArmorStriking
      @LancesArmorStriking 2 года назад +73

      Base 12, here we come

    • @TommyLikeTom
      @TommyLikeTom 2 года назад +9

      Like Hexadecimal or binary

  • @thomaskennedy5728
    @thomaskennedy5728 Год назад +264

    It is quite amazing that many mathematician from all around the world calculated the value of pi and they never met with each other or knowing each other's work.

    • @Tommy_007
      @Tommy_007 10 месяцев назад +18

      Here is a more interesting fact: I once multiplied the two numbers 4116453213565341246357132542 and 11247498996654853558153551, and I'm absolutely sure that I'm the ONLY person who has ever done that until now.

    • @findystonerush9339
      @findystonerush9339 9 месяцев назад +6

      @@Tommy_007 Not if I also do it!

    • @adoolaTurayk
      @adoolaTurayk 9 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@Tommy_007using a calculator?

    • @Me-mt9rq
      @Me-mt9rq 8 месяцев назад +13

      ​@@Tommy_007some random supercomputer did it in 1997

    • @randominternetguy2930
      @randominternetguy2930 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@Me-mt9rq😭

  • @Lucpel18
    @Lucpel18 2 года назад +741

    2:59 The square root of 2 is approximately 1.41421356237, and 577/408 is 1.41421568627. They're pretty close to each other and it's impressive to think how they could approximate the square root of 2 to such an extent.

    • @MohitSingh-kl5pf
      @MohitSingh-kl5pf 2 года назад +78

      Dayum. Our ancestors were dripping

    • @praneethmashetty591
      @praneethmashetty591 2 года назад +115

      @@MohitSingh-kl5pf We just aren't on the same grindset like our ancestors back in the days.

    • @MohitSingh-kl5pf
      @MohitSingh-kl5pf 2 года назад +27

      @@praneethmashetty591yup but our scientists are

    • @princeroy1837
      @princeroy1837 Год назад +30

      Hmm, back then Indians even knew the distance of the moon to earth. Pythagoras theorem was also in Hindu spiritual texts.
      The number system was invented by Indians. Otherwise Roman numbers were used.

    • @ManishKumar-ue1wm
      @ManishKumar-ue1wm Год назад +8

      @@princeroy1837 they even estimated radius of planets and that too with remarkable accuracy except Jupiter and venus

  • @jacquest2642
    @jacquest2642 3 года назад +4238

    I knew accountants were epic but not this epic 😎

    • @user-db2se3nm5d
      @user-db2se3nm5d 2 года назад +52

      Pushin 🅿️

    • @weirdhungidas8998
      @weirdhungidas8998 2 года назад +40

      @@user-db2se3nm5d there are ✌️ P’s in your sentence

    • @robotmeister009
      @robotmeister009 2 года назад +19

      You know who's epic-er, some high Indian guy.

    • @Ave_Satana666
      @Ave_Satana666 2 года назад +1

      @@h0ser my family works so hard I used to then 3 weeks ago I break my leg been on pain killers. Man I see why lazy people are lazY now. Walking? Who needs it. Not me shie.

    • @Ave_Satana666
      @Ave_Satana666 2 года назад +3

      @@h0ser since being "enlightened" I have grown distrust for the banks. Inolden days the teller had a gun and put his life on the line. So we paid him more. Then we gave the risk to the guard pay him less and increase pay for the banker to do nothing. Further more back then black people where alot more likely to wear suits. What did you think i was gonna say.

  • @davidlandry3487
    @davidlandry3487 Год назад +23

    Thanks for saving the best for last! e is such a powerful constant. It also ties into complex numbers since sine and cosine can be expressed as a form of e to the x, although in engineering, we say j instead of i. I'm also a big fan of Planc's constant.

  • @pythagoras_3148
    @pythagoras_3148 2 года назад +681

    Hey thanks for explaining the story of my great-grandfather gruk. Means a lot.

    • @a_Playerwastaken
      @a_Playerwastaken 2 года назад +21

      when you think about it how did he become his great grandfather

    • @werds1392
      @werds1392 2 года назад +11

      The man from earth

    • @pizzazemle6262
      @pizzazemle6262 2 года назад +5

      he is granpa of all people

    • @DihydrogenMonoxideGuy
      @DihydrogenMonoxideGuy 2 года назад

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    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 Год назад +2

      Grukpa

  • @matej_grega
    @matej_grega 3 года назад +916

    Underratedness levels are really high. We need to make more people know h0ser for he is amazing.

    • @manavshah8335
      @manavshah8335 2 года назад

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    • @SAIWFY
      @SAIWFY 2 года назад +3

      @@manavshah8335 yikes..

    • @NehalNagib-fn6in
      @NehalNagib-fn6in Год назад

      Not that amazing ... Roman math is unpredictable propablity state of action

    • @SreenikethanI
      @SreenikethanI Год назад

      goofy ahh google logo

  • @JoshuaLo2732
    @JoshuaLo2732 2 года назад +8

    Having Moldau as the background music , and having maths as the main topic, means that this video is going to be EPIC!!

  • @hexal6009
    @hexal6009 2 года назад +457

    6:45 "Bengali numerals, eight for four and nine for seven, this is madness!"
    as a bengali growing up learning english, I can confirm

  • @adamsaldana5462
    @adamsaldana5462 2 года назад +168

    I love your geography videos, but this one is absolute gold to me.

  • @dyanfisher
    @dyanfisher 2 года назад +38

    I dont think I ever knew just how complicated math really is until watching this video

  • @isaacjacobharris
    @isaacjacobharris 2 года назад +290

    Euler didn't actually name e after himself, he just liked to use vowels as variables and had already used a in his book

    • @aakashprasad114
      @aakashprasad114 2 года назад +29

      e is NOT a variable, i hope you mean a constant

    • @Clip.Craze2
      @Clip.Craze2 2 года назад +6

      @@aakashprasad114 a constant is a variable

    • @determinadedgoon
      @determinadedgoon 2 года назад +5

      Based euler

    • @zafuro
      @zafuro 2 года назад +3

      onion

    • @eatbass8055
      @eatbass8055 2 года назад +43

      @@Clip.Craze2 how can a constant be a variable if it isn't variable

  • @patcam8652
    @patcam8652 2 года назад +1399

    I know Pi has probably been proven to definitely be irrational, but how hilarious would it be if the computers finding the digits of pi just stopped... like they reached the end and we come to find out pi isn't irrational.

    • @cubicinfinity2
      @cubicinfinity2 2 года назад +231

      That'd be an insane crisis.

    • @ffc1a28c7
      @ffc1a28c7 2 года назад +165

      It would not be a crisis, and it would not happen without fault in the code (it's a proof for that reason lol).

    • @elfilinamie1326
      @elfilinamie1326 2 года назад +5

      Oh my gosh XD Truly so

    • @rupert_1491
      @rupert_1491 2 года назад +37

      @@ffc1a28c7 whoooooosh

    • @ffc1a28c7
      @ffc1a28c7 2 года назад

      @@rupert_1491 It's a shit joke because it's proveably false.

  • @borgiaz1999
    @borgiaz1999 2 года назад +14

    Thanks to Gruk, I fail at least one exam a year ! Thanks mate 💪

  • @Connor_Montgomery
    @Connor_Montgomery 2 года назад +176

    I saw something a while ago about how if an average person was sent back in time they'd be able to describe all this fantastic technology, but if they were asked to make some they'd have no idea how. Since then I've been trying to learn the basics of stuff, and knowing how pi was worked out is very useful

    • @smolytchannel5062
      @smolytchannel5062 2 года назад +22

      That's why I always had the idea to find the best mathematician in town and blow his tiny brain away by my advanced math

    • @yourdreams2440
      @yourdreams2440 2 года назад

      Basics of “stuff”?

    • @RoflcopterLamo
      @RoflcopterLamo 2 года назад +2

      @@yourdreams2440 It’s not that hard really
      Like playing around with logic gates
      Once you know that a basic computer can be achieved with some time
      Or the fundamentals of engineering

    • @teathesilkwing7616
      @teathesilkwing7616 Год назад +2

      Depends on how far back and what inventions would be unknown. The average dude could invent farming or the wheel or maybe even things like the plow. But if it’s like the 1700s then not much they’d be able to bring apart from vague ideas

  • @ChronicTaxEvader
    @ChronicTaxEvader 2 года назад +63

    Ive spent the last several hours binging your channel and honestly this video has been my favorite

  • @shmackydoodRon
    @shmackydoodRon Год назад +24

    I made a number in high school. It’s in the base 11 system between 7 and 8. It’s called schmeight. Doing calculations with a new digit mixed into the middle was fun to show off.

  • @menassies3224
    @menassies3224 3 года назад +107

    I’m actually a big fan of your channel

  • @biged7415
    @biged7415 2 года назад +209

    Today I learned that Pythagoras was an absolute madman. He was crazy, or at least by today's standards. He constantly claimed to be Hermes' son and that his father gives him the ability to see all of his past lives. He also drowned one or more students for weird mathematical discoveries, like the existence of irrational numbers. He considered it punishment from the gods.

    • @sirchafa8472
      @sirchafa8472 2 года назад

      @DHRMP "did you just entered my math class with a bean soup and expect me not to skin you to death for your heresy?"

    • @notsojharedtroll23
      @notsojharedtroll23 2 года назад +4

      @DHRMP if I recall correctly it was the soybeans, rather than the beans itself bc that reminded him of the vulva in women

  • @grahambell-xm9qm
    @grahambell-xm9qm 11 месяцев назад +6

    It feels unfair that indian schools dont teach about ancient indian mathematicians, the only thing I ever learnt is that we invented zero

    • @Rohit-cj6eb
      @Rohit-cj6eb 10 месяцев назад +1

      And that also because someone mentioned that in comment section actually whole 0-9 number system was discovered in india

  • @Alexandros.Mograine
    @Alexandros.Mograine 2 года назад +546

    i always wondered, how confusing were the big roman numbers to educated romans. is it confusing to us because we arent used to it? or was it actually that confusing. some people even today can read roman numbers just as easily.

    • @positive2772
      @positive2772 2 года назад +13

      Thats interesting

    • @brutusthebear9050
      @brutusthebear9050 2 года назад +77

      It also works a lot better in Latin than it does today. Just like how different base systems came naturally to the people who used them. Hell, no one really has trouble with time, even though it's base 60 (one of the best bases imho) and base 24 (eh it's okay).

    • @nanamacapagal8342
      @nanamacapagal8342 2 года назад +98

      @@brutusthebear9050 hell, the whole time thing gets more confusing. i say 90 seconds, you get me. i say one and a half minutes, you get me. but if i said 1 minute and 90 seconds you would punch me in the face

    • @brutusthebear9050
      @brutusthebear9050 2 года назад +60

      @@shafwandito4724 It's neither. That's not a valid combination of Roman numerals.

    • @tm30shadowball37
      @tm30shadowball37 2 года назад +9

      @@shafwandito4724 It's -4 lol

  • @AnujMishra-fc7dg
    @AnujMishra-fc7dg 2 года назад +518

    Fun fact - Aryabhatta is speculated to have known that pi is irrational 1300 years before lambert proved it. Its just that most of the works of Indian mathematicians did not survive 😔
    P. S. - If you don't know who Aryabhatta was then just Google it. You'll be surprised to know about his contributions to mathematics and astronomy.
    Edit : For those of you who think I'm claiming it without any proof just read this page : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryabhata

    • @lumi2030
      @lumi2030 2 года назад +4

      nice

    • @MenacingPerson
      @MenacingPerson 2 года назад +42

      "speculated" there is no proof. I say this as an indian, please stop glorifying our history

    • @AnujMishra-fc7dg
      @AnujMishra-fc7dg 2 года назад +99

      @@MenacingPerson I never said there is any proof. In fact, there isn't any proof that's why I said it's speculated in the first place. It's speculated because in most of his works, Aryabhatta uses pi as an irrational quantity. He might even have proved it but the works did not survive that's what I am saying.
      And there is no harm in glorifying our history as long as it's true and not some bullsh*t from the WhatsApp university.

    • @kiyopon3229
      @kiyopon3229 2 года назад +5

      If it's speculated, doesn't that mean it isn't a fact?

    • @AnujMishra-fc7dg
      @AnujMishra-fc7dg 2 года назад +35

      @@kiyopon3229 Why do you think it is speculated?
      After calculating the value of pi correct to 3 decimal places, Aryabhatta himself said that it is an approximation and he also used the word āsanna which most likely means irrational. It isn't necessarily a fact because he didn't prove it and even if he did, the works did not survive but he has mentioned it to be irrational.

  • @TimelessTimothy
    @TimelessTimothy Год назад +7

    When I was watching this video around the 1:29 mark, I realized that the background music was none other than the orchestral piece "Themes of the Moldau!"
    Besides the video being a goofy mix of humor and simplified mathematical history (along with some additional facts), I really appreciated the choice of background music here, as I performed an arrangement (specifically by Robert S. Frost) with my high school orchestra classmates just a week ago from the time of typing (12/16/2022).
    Nonetheless, if I hadn't known the name of the background music, it would've been nice if the description had a "music used" list; frankly, I feel that plenty of other YT channels should adopt this same practice.

  • @jonathandaffron1781
    @jonathandaffron1781 2 года назад +149

    Complex numbers are actually when you have a number that combines imaginary and number line numbers, it’s not a different name for imaginary numbers

    • @itsiwhatitsi
      @itsiwhatitsi 2 года назад +13

      Yes true a complex is a number with a real part and an imaginary part

    • @falcon_arkaig
      @falcon_arkaig 2 года назад +9

      I swear every time I look up "imaginary numbers" on Google the results always say "complex numbers". Sigh.

    • @jonathandaffron1781
      @jonathandaffron1781 2 года назад +9

      @@falcon_arkaig yeah, it’s a common misconception. An example of a complex number would be 3+2i, where the number line number “3” is combined with the imaginary number “2i”.

    • @UltraAryan10
      @UltraAryan10 2 года назад +12

      @@falcon_arkaig All real and imaginary numbers are complex but this is not true the other way around. A complex number is not just real nor just imaginary, it is a mix of both.

    • @marches45
      @marches45 2 года назад +7

      Imaginary numbers are complex numbers when written in the form 0 + Ci

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 3 года назад +110

    5:56 in Greek especially there's even more of a confusion. The word for zero, μηδέν, literally means nothing/not a single thing.

    • @universenerdd
      @universenerdd 2 года назад

      And “Βιβλιοθήκη” means book place “library” very descriptive

  • @Т1000-м1и
    @Т1000-м1и Год назад +2

    This is a channel we needed but didn't deserve

  • @slu77y
    @slu77y 2 года назад +89

    this inspired me to try harder in math, but i forgot i already graduated

    • @__nog642
      @__nog642 2 года назад +12

      That shouldn't stop you

    • @kaitlynzuniga
      @kaitlynzuniga 2 года назад +2

      i literally had this exact thought 😭

    • @davidlandry3487
      @davidlandry3487 Год назад

      Do it anyway! Math is even cooler when you learn it without being compelled to do so for some assignment and without the pressures of getting a good grade.

  • @gunadityapatil5009
    @gunadityapatil5009 2 года назад +146

    Me an Indian watching this on the day gave my Engineering Mathematics Exam :
    ITS IN MY BLOOD

    • @AmanVerma-qh9jv
      @AmanVerma-qh9jv 2 года назад +6

      🔥

    • @bruh____784
      @bruh____784 2 года назад +4

      W

    • @cubicinfinity2
      @cubicinfinity2 2 года назад +14

      I love the work Indian people did for mathematics.

    • @AmanVerma-qh9jv
      @AmanVerma-qh9jv Год назад +3

      Do know Pingala gave meru prastara ( which is now known as Pascal's triangle) and the Fibonacci sequence way back in 3rd century BC.
      Also,
      The infinite series for pi is mostly today known as Leibniz formula for π. But many few people know that this series was already discovered in India by Madhava (c. 1340-1425 AD) of Sangamagrama, 300 years before Leibniz or Gregory.
      You can check on the internet

    • @jackal25301
      @jackal25301 Год назад

      no it isnt you pajeet lmao

  • @ALECTORMANCY
    @ALECTORMANCY Год назад +54

    10:09 WHY HE LOOK SO DEVIOUS??????

    • @guts2048
      @guts2048 Год назад +3

      Faaaacts

    • @l.p4251
      @l.p4251 Год назад

      Why does he looks like he has a evil idea

  • @chicken5620
    @chicken5620 3 года назад +37

    just casually doing my commenting on underrated youtubers. (your the best!)

  • @hegotleggy
    @hegotleggy 2 года назад +17

    I was in a math competition my junior year of high school in which we had to learn how to do math with babylonian and ancient egyptian numbering systems. I had locked that memory away, but this video brought it back. It's amazing how much we take math for granted.

    • @thea.f.k2979
      @thea.f.k2979 2 года назад

      why in the name of miracle whip, do you need to learn math in babylonian and ANCIENT egyptian numeral??? i know it's a math competition but why though? couldn't they just think of something else like uhhh accounting

    • @hegotleggy
      @hegotleggy 2 года назад

      @@thea.f.k2979 the topic of the entire competition was ancient babylon and egypt. It was an intermural competition, I just was only on the math team.

  • @Roberto-REME
    @Roberto-REME Год назад +4

    Loved your video and I have to say you are an excellent narrator. Though the video was informative and engaging, you found a way to pepper the content with well placed sarcasm. The part about "...Brahmagupta wrote this book called.... called....It's not important" had me laughing out loud. Very funny.

  • @LifeisHard1010
    @LifeisHard1010 3 года назад +44

    Ah yes the process of smoking one ton of weed in order to find the hyper-negative-infinities. Classic Mathematics

  • @dashcrowngd8954
    @dashcrowngd8954 2 года назад +202

    I can't believe it.
    I've been taught all of math and it was actually interesting...
    Now that's an achievement

    • @finlandd
      @finlandd 2 года назад

      My reaction to this information: ruclips.net/video/Vg3I4Ut9uXE/видео.html

    • @dorol6375
      @dorol6375 Год назад

      These are just the celebrities of math

    • @ConernicusRex
      @ConernicusRex Год назад +1

      This is generously "some" of math. A lot of the details are incorrect and the chronology is fucked up bad.

    • @dabajabaza111
      @dabajabaza111 Год назад +2

      Math is way more fun when you don't have to commit things to memory for a test.

  • @Ordinal_Yoda
    @Ordinal_Yoda 10 месяцев назад +1

    I love you dude. Your sense of humor is spot on bro!!!

  • @rparl
    @rparl 2 года назад +29

    When I was studying calculus, sometimes we needed to hospitalize a ratio when it was zero over zero.

    • @orkkojit
      @orkkojit Год назад +2

      L'Hopital

    • @rparl
      @rparl Год назад

      @@orkkojit Thanks. I couldn't recall the correct term but only what we called it.

  • @yankeedoodle5187
    @yankeedoodle5187 2 года назад +15

    This is great man, cracked me up. Keep going and you'll be big in no time.

  • @MattH-wg7ou
    @MattH-wg7ou Год назад +2

    The music is Smetana - Moldau if anyone is interested. It's really a beautiful piece.

  • @mitzvahfilms
    @mitzvahfilms 2 года назад +14

    Mate this is gold, one of the most important history videos on RUclips

  • @levirhoden
    @levirhoden 2 года назад +4

    “e, the most used letter in English and the least used letter in mandarin.” You win, I’m subscribed.

  • @localcringeguy
    @localcringeguy Год назад +1

    Gruk isn’t appreciated enough by us. Love Gruk

  • @kpggr1827
    @kpggr1827 2 года назад +26

    4:53 "wtf were they smoking"

  • @rks1738
    @rks1738 2 года назад +51

    Roman architecture is way more impressive when you imagine somebody designing them with roman numerals

    • @mnj3t
      @mnj3t Год назад

      yeah that's why we have leaning tower of pisa

    • @IkarimTheCreature
      @IkarimTheCreature Год назад

      @@mnj3t that tower was made in medieval italy...

    • @mnj3t
      @mnj3t Год назад +1

      @@IkarimTheCreature oh. my bad

  • @DreamHHS
    @DreamHHS Год назад +2

    This was the BEST explanation of numbers I heard hilarious and informative 😂😂

  • @ishanbajpai6940
    @ishanbajpai6940 2 года назад +291

    Just like no one before "Pythogoras" knew how to use the Pythogorus theorem, no one knew how to use the number 0 before Brahmagupta introduced it in a formal way.
    And all the other stuff credited to Greeks which no one Earth had the big brains to figure out but only the Greeks had the ability to do.

    • @brutusthebear9050
      @brutusthebear9050 2 года назад +47

      All ideas have an origin. They are difficult to discover but easy to learn. Isn't that one of the wonderful things about humanity?

    • @rlpn6710
      @rlpn6710 2 года назад +9

      How did pythagoras know how to use the pythagoras theorem before it existed? hmm really makes you think doesn't it

    • @mygills3050
      @mygills3050 2 года назад +2

      @@rlpn6710 there are some geometric proofs, most of which use rearranging various similar triangles to form negative space.

    • @alternateperson6600
      @alternateperson6600 2 года назад +9

      Elementary theorems of mathematics spanned throughout the ancient world, but were mostly stated without proof. The Greeks were the first to prove those same theorems because Ancient Greeks loved debates; as such Greek mathematicians made use of the elenctic method to give mathematics a rigorous and unassailable foundation. The axiomatic deductive system that we know today evolved from the Greeks. No other civilisation had come up with it because they were more conservative and reverent than the Greeks; stage debates were a foreign thing to them, especially in China.
      The theorem is known today as the Pythagorean theorem because the Pythagoreans were the first to prove it.

    • @ishanbajpai6940
      @ishanbajpai6940 2 года назад +6

      @@alternateperson6600 Offcourse buddy and because you are saying this that means you have read all the proofs of theorems given by Greeks and other civilizations with conclusive evidence that Greeks were less conservative and had more open debates than others civilizations.
      I would trust that you wouldn't just make shit up on the internet without definitive proofs for your claims about Greek supremacy

  • @primorock8141
    @primorock8141 2 года назад +8

    Whether it's geography, politics or numbers, this guy just drops straight bangers.

  • @a_muhammadfarishbinahmadna5556
    @a_muhammadfarishbinahmadna5556 Год назад +10

    Why didn't these guys just use calculators man. Think smart not think hard 🧠

    • @YesItsyou-ho2hk
      @YesItsyou-ho2hk 8 месяцев назад +2

      Rip mathematicians

    • @Daixnuo
      @Daixnuo 7 месяцев назад

      Nah, think hard not smart

  • @KangJangkrik
    @KangJangkrik 2 года назад +14

    Fun fact: when you're enjoying video games, ur computer actually do geometric transformation so hard

  • @magicalplace3788
    @magicalplace3788 2 года назад +61

    Now studying imaginary and complex numbers in highschool, now instead of knowing I'm wrong when I get "i" in the calculator, I'm just forced to go along with it

  • @Md.MuradAhmed
    @Md.MuradAhmed 6 месяцев назад

    6:45
    Wow you actually mentioned our Bengali numbers
    You got my respect and also a new subscriber!❤

  • @mosesfox52
    @mosesfox52 2 года назад +10

    Roman numerals were actually super efficient for basic algebra. I’ve since forgotten how it works but I remember that much.

    • @Solitaire001
      @Solitaire001 Год назад +1

      From what I understand, people wouldn't do calculations using roman numerals. Instead, they would do the calculations on a counting board and then write down the results in roman numerals.

  • @thisisvaughanroberts439
    @thisisvaughanroberts439 2 года назад +17

    Dig the humor and easy story telling style. Enjoyed, thanks dude

  • @storageman8763
    @storageman8763 Год назад +8

    7:24 i love you for telling this

  • @edwinhuang9244
    @edwinhuang9244 2 года назад +18

    5:42 No you're missing nothing there.

  • @shreyaspatel424
    @shreyaspatel424 2 года назад +14

    I'll suggest you make videos on broader topics like these, you'll get views as well plus people will enjoy cause your tone of narrating jokes is hilarious!

    • @Robopi3.14
      @Robopi3.14 2 года назад +2

      Idk it kinda seemed like he was disrespecting Indians. like no one else was treated that badly when it came to discoveries :/

    • @ovn_tamil
      @ovn_tamil 2 года назад +3

      @@Robopi3.14 I'm Indian, it seemed fine to me

    • @Robopi3.14
      @Robopi3.14 2 года назад

      @@ovn_tamil yeah I'm indian too

    • @Valstrax420
      @Valstrax420 2 года назад

      Nah he should stop making videos if they're gonna have misinformation. Arabic numerals came from Arabia first and taught to the Indians. Modern day Arabic uses old Indian numerals, and India made new numerals. Now Arabic numerals are used in English. Had Arabs just kept the Arabic numerals both English and Arabic would have the same numbers and hindi would have something else. Teaching Indians these new numerals was a mistake by the Arabs, because now they lose all credit. These numbers have been engraved in stone long before they taught them to other groups.

  • @BDCOMBO
    @BDCOMBO Год назад

    So freaking happy I found your channel

  • @KatySwan79
    @KatySwan79 2 года назад +27

    4:00 I did the conversions for like a minute just to get 69420
    Very nice
    Also at 4:08 the answer is MCCCLIV (or 1354)

    • @ukatofarticus9046
      @ukatofarticus9046 2 года назад

      yes i figured these out in my head and you were my only way to validate it

    • @calebm6684
      @calebm6684 2 года назад

      Imagine if Tom Lehrer did "ancient math"
      IX take V is IV,
      now you look at XXX, which take XXX is, ... XXX-XXX?
      im not sure about that one.
      Never mind. Ignore the Xs
      C take L is L,
      M take DCC is CCC,
      and an M is left over
      Add it all you get MCCCLIV
      Old math
      Really old math
      It won't do you any good to do new math
      It's so simple
      So simple
      That only a roman can do it

  • @oksanabashkirtseva2583
    @oksanabashkirtseva2583 2 года назад +6

    Love this video so much, truly need more content like this - both interesting and EXTREMELY funny ♥️
    I'm no mathematician myself but this video kept me watching till the end

  • @aidanskiffington3288
    @aidanskiffington3288 Год назад +1

    On of the few great videos being created on RUclips today. So interesting and hilarious.

  • @Xaneliar
    @Xaneliar 2 года назад +30

    4:06 On behalf of Julius its MCCCLIV

    • @_redniel_
      @_redniel_ 2 года назад +4

      MCCCLIV = 1354

    • @Loirn-onajourney
      @Loirn-onajourney Год назад +2

      Glad to know there’s people as insane as me

    • @microwave856
      @microwave856 Год назад

      can we get julius caesar to confirm this

    • @sophie________
      @sophie________ Год назад

      ​@@microwave856I'll call him and see

  • @louis9116
    @louis9116 2 года назад +21

    it is a crime that this channel has less than 1M subs. I hope to be the guy that says "I knew him before he blew up".

  • @ronercplayz3737
    @ronercplayz3737 2 месяца назад +1

    4:03 The answer is MCDXLV.

  • @Roxasguy13
    @Roxasguy13 2 года назад +13

    The build up to the second rock killed me 😂

  • @andrebenites9919
    @andrebenites9919 2 года назад +5

    2:20 obviously, they didn't use this formula.
    Actually, it is really simple math (I was never taught that this was the way they do it, but I made this method it makes perfect sense). I'm a math teacher, btw
    Imagine you want to compare a long stick to a brick.
    You see that the lenght of the stick is equal to 2 whole bricks "and a bit more".
    That means the lenght of the brick is a bit more than a third (because if it was a third, it would fit exactly 3). So it is 1/3 + error.
    You measure this "bit more"(error) and see how many times it can fit the whole stick.
    If the error length fits exactly 20 times in the stick length, that means this error is 1/20.
    If it doesn't fit perfectly, you can repeat the proccess and get even more acurste answers.
    So instead of trying to find a numerator and denominator for this fraction, they used this simple method to say it was 1/3 +1/20 instead of 23/60. If you were an engineer, how would you know that you had to divide by 60? The way we approach is divide always by ten equal parts (decimals).
    But the Egyptian way is also very interesting and cool and it is cool to show how numbers can be written in a way completely different from ours. We can see their behaviour in many different ways.

  • @srijannandi6747
    @srijannandi6747 Год назад +1

    BRO IM BENGALI AND YOU'RE RIGHT THIS SHIT IS ACTUAL MADNESS

  • @hennamatata6547
    @hennamatata6547 2 года назад +9

    I’m a math undergraduate student and it made me feel so moved. People don’t appreciate the power house that is mathematics.

    • @runajain5773
      @runajain5773 Год назад

      Because education system protray math as tough and boring way

  • @Skin1in
    @Skin1in 3 года назад +11

    Very interesting, didn't understand anything but very interesting.

  • @ByteMe_90
    @ByteMe_90 9 месяцев назад +1

    At present, the root 2 value is computed to 10 trillion digits. For general use, its value is truncated and is used as 1.414 to make calculations easy. The fraction 99/70 is also sometimes used as the value of √2.

  • @nicolasderra3888
    @nicolasderra3888 2 года назад +19

    9:23 Complex numbers and imaginary numbers are not the same. Imaginary numbers are only made of well, imaginary numbers while you can think of complex numbers as ordered pairs where the first number represents the real part, and the second one the imaginary part (though there are lots of ways to represent them, that’s where the fun part is). To put it in a more formal way: Both the set of real numbers and the set of imaginary numbers are proper subsets of the set of complex numbers. The intersection of these 2 sets only contains the number 0, and their Cartesian product (with R first and I second) would form the set of complex numbers, in a way.

    • @MagicGonads
      @MagicGonads 2 года назад

      they are only proper subsets up to isomorphism ala direct product
      (the linear subspace where the first coordinate is 0 is isomorphic (as a field) to the real numbers, and the linear subspace where the second coordinate is 0 is isomorphic (as ring operators on a field) to the imaginary numbers)

    • @ffc1a28c7
      @ffc1a28c7 2 года назад

      @@MagicGonads wow, look at this guy spouting first year linalg. Oh So SmRt lol

    • @jirachi-wishmaker9242
      @jirachi-wishmaker9242 2 года назад

      (-1)^1/2

    • @jirachi-wishmaker9242
      @jirachi-wishmaker9242 2 года назад

      @@nicolasderra3888 how? I meant _Square root_ of (-1) thx btw.

    • @nicolasderra3888
      @nicolasderra3888 2 года назад

      ​@@MagicGonads Yes, I know that 1 would be (1,0) in complex numbers, it's just notation, mathematically they are exactly the same, so both sets are proper subsets in every way.

  • @eternaldreamerofsleep
    @eternaldreamerofsleep 2 года назад +5

    Ah ancient mathematicians, it truly is crazy what they were on back then. How were they able to think in such a way? How were they able to derive something out of nowhere, truly admirable

  • @faridfarchovic6226
    @faridfarchovic6226 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks for putting Bředřich Smetana as a background music))

  • @hoelefouk
    @hoelefouk 3 года назад +14

    Amazing, keep it up brother.

  • @aidenexclamationpoint730
    @aidenexclamationpoint730 2 года назад +5

    just learned all of math in like 12 minutes, guess my math teachers won't be seeing me anymore

  • @FunkyTown___
    @FunkyTown___ 2 года назад

    Best thing ive watched all week

  • @kritical_2638
    @kritical_2638 2 года назад +26

    5:00 wtf was they smoking?

  • @MaiFiinta
    @MaiFiinta 2 года назад +11

    0:27 "gruk have 2 left hands"

  • @tirthkhalasi769
    @tirthkhalasi769 Год назад +3

    I can't believe you missed BIRD FROM EGYPT, IT IS THE SUPERIOR NUMBER

  • @adamsaldana5462
    @adamsaldana5462 2 года назад +5

    I love your geography videos, but this is gold to me

  • @sladelucas5531
    @sladelucas5531 2 года назад +48

    I always love explaining to younger students the concept of complex numbers, but I always call them imaginary numbers because it's funnier to present it to them as a number that literally doesn't exist. Great thing is, as long as they know what a square root is and how it works, they can actually follow along with what an imaginary number is, at least at its most basic.
    I also like telling students that my favourite number is e, that always throws them through a loop.

    • @ryangallant7579
      @ryangallant7579 Год назад +2

      Complex numbers are a sum of a real and imaginary number. The term complex can't be used interchangeably with imaginary, they are not the same thing.

    • @sladelucas5531
      @sladelucas5531 Год назад

      @@ryangallant7579 yeah, but THEY don't need to know that.

    • @anerdwithaswitch9686
      @anerdwithaswitch9686 Год назад +2

      @@ryangallant7579 Imaginary numbers _are_ at least a subset of complex numbers, though; they just have a real component of 0.

  • @johancaesar
    @johancaesar 7 месяцев назад

    Wow props to you for using the Moldau in ur vid, it's a great piece

  • @eddietime1811
    @eddietime1811 2 года назад +6

    Actually you can count to 59049 using a base three system (finger down, finger half up, finger fully up)

  • @iGuysCOMEDY
    @iGuysCOMEDY 2 года назад +5

    3:02
    The Best "What‽" Ever

  • @annxu8219
    @annxu8219 Год назад

    As the number φ(1@(2,0)) (LVO

  • @ThePuma1012
    @ThePuma1012 2 года назад +6

    Fun fact: If you use trinary as a base for counting on your fingers, you could count up to 1,048,575 on both hands.

    • @ThePuma1012
      @ThePuma1012 2 года назад

      @Gladys edith You have 3 sections to your finger

    • @tanveshkaviskar442
      @tanveshkaviskar442 Год назад

      @@ThePuma1012 but our thumb has only 2 sections

    • @ThePuma1012
      @ThePuma1012 Год назад

      @@tanveshkaviskar442 You can still move it at 3 internals

    • @tanveshkaviskar442
      @tanveshkaviskar442 Год назад

      @@ThePuma1012 how did you got 1,048,575? Since you have only 10 fingers, the highest count would be [(3^10)-1]=59048

    • @ThePuma1012
      @ThePuma1012 Год назад

      @@tanveshkaviskar442 I think I meant quadinary lol

  • @wendyhan9727
    @wendyhan9727 3 года назад +13

    Really love your channel! Never commented before but wanted to say ur stuff is great and always improving 👍 (btw, do u think ull ever accept volunteer artists? love ot contribute some art to ur content one day!!)

  • @Roberto-REME
    @Roberto-REME Год назад +1

    It would be wonderful to hear you explain the Table of the Elements.

  • @psy_inamorato5703
    @psy_inamorato5703 2 года назад +65

    Not just zero even the decimal system, trigonometry, geometries of circle ,even many parts of calculus and the Pythagoras theorem was also know to india before the world.

    • @parth-ian5027
      @parth-ian5027 2 года назад +8

      More like indus theorem

    • @Ankit-d9f4u
      @Ankit-d9f4u 2 года назад +2

      @@nihilisticboi3520 yes Greeks Learned mathematics from other civilization

    • @darkpanda239
      @darkpanda239 2 года назад +6

      @@nihilisticboi3520 Pythagoras theorem was known in other ancient civilizations like the Babylonian, China but the emphasis there was on the numerical and not so much on the proper geometric aspect while in the Indian 'Sulbasutras', one sees depth in both aspects - especially the geometric. This is a subtle point analysed in detail by Seidenberg. From certain diagrams described in the Sulbasutras, several historians and mathematicians like Burk, Hankel, Schopenhauer,
      Seidenberg and Van der Waerden have concluded that the Sulba authors possessed proofs of geometrical results including the Pythagoras theorem. One
      of the proofs of the Pythagoras theorem, easily deducible from the Sulba verses, is later described more explicitly
      by Bhaskara II (1150 AD).

    • @mohammadnaif9894
      @mohammadnaif9894 2 года назад

      Nope

    • @psy_inamorato5703
      @psy_inamorato5703 2 года назад +2

      @@mohammadnaif9894 we know why you are saying nope....i hope you have something to be proud about

  • @shivamchouhan5077
    @shivamchouhan5077 2 года назад +5

    Gruk was the greatest mathematician yet so much underrated. Sad reality of the world

  • @alekseyprokopev7409
    @alekseyprokopev7409 Год назад +1

    Thank you, Gruk.

  • @crazyguyethan1848
    @crazyguyethan1848 2 года назад +24

    6:38 bro why is 4 an anime eye

  • @frederikbroni5490
    @frederikbroni5490 2 года назад +47

    Great content man! If you get you voice-overs a bit more engaging and lively, you really have something fantastic here. Keep up the good work!

    • @thecianinator
      @thecianinator 2 года назад +1

      Dude's already got 68,000 subscribers

    • @Gabeshark
      @Gabeshark 2 года назад +10

      I personally thought the voice made it more enjoyable, had a comedic feeling for me

    • @Marc-rw3dd
      @Marc-rw3dd 2 года назад +7

      His voice is the best part

    • @himynameisroman
      @himynameisroman 2 года назад +3

      But I like the mono chromatic voice, it makes it better

    • @redtankgaming7881
      @redtankgaming7881 11 месяцев назад

      @@himynameisromanplease what is the song playing in the background someone help me

  • @mutedgroove
    @mutedgroove Год назад +2

    Switching to 1.5x makes the video even more funny.