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  • @ianprado1488
    @ianprado1488 4 года назад +1868

    Dr. Eisenbud seems like such a nice guy

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  4 года назад +500

      He *is* a nice guy.

    • @andrewzhang8512
      @andrewzhang8512 4 года назад +31

      @@numberphile Why do you seem serious?

    • @MuffinsAPlenty
      @MuffinsAPlenty 4 года назад +19

      He absolutely is!

    • @vgstep
      @vgstep 4 года назад +3

      Totally

    • @shmunkyman33
      @shmunkyman33 4 года назад +54

      "DR. EISENBUD IS INDEED A HUMAN WHO IS NICE" *blinks "HELP" in morse code*

  • @adamweishaupt3733
    @adamweishaupt3733 4 года назад +893

    According to Google Scholar, "Homological algebra on a complete intersection, with an application to group representations" has 678 citations.

    • @andrewzhang8512
      @andrewzhang8512 4 года назад +12

      huh

    • @PHDnHorribleness
      @PHDnHorribleness 4 года назад +55

      I feel like we should also be including papers that cite those 678 papers, and so forth, if we are using citations to measure impact.

    • @CommodoreHorrible
      @CommodoreHorrible 4 года назад +98

      @@PHDnHorribleness "What is the cardinality of the set Q, where Q is the set of all papers that either cite "Homological algebra on a complete intersection, with an application to group representations" or cite a paper in set Q"

    • @samuelthecamel
      @samuelthecamel 4 года назад +60

      @@CommodoreHorrible You should write a paper on it and then do the calculations on your own paper.

    • @martinpaddle
      @martinpaddle 4 года назад +60

      For a pure mathematics paper, that's a lot. In statistics, medicine, etc. you get different orders of magnitude, but there's less honesty in those numbers. In math, for example, you would typically only cite papers that are directly relevant to what you're doing (just as you would put authors in alphabetical order and don't include coauthors unless they contributed).

  • @davidr2421
    @davidr2421 4 года назад +526

    It's pretty neat how he basically did "market research" on the physicists to see what paper they might like next, like the next version of a product. I've never thought about research fields interacting in that way.

    • @bonob0123
      @bonob0123 4 года назад +5

      no i think it went the other way. He wrote the paper first and then the physicists found it useful and it became popular.

    • @Isiloron
      @Isiloron 4 года назад +56

      @@bonob0123 David Vaughan was talking about the generalization paper, not the initial paper.

    • @marcoantonio7648
      @marcoantonio7648 4 года назад

      i know right?

    • @bonob0123
      @bonob0123 4 года назад +2

      @@Isiloron Fair enough

    • @NYsummertimeCHI
      @NYsummertimeCHI 4 года назад +40

      @@Isiloron Thing is the physicists are usually like "I don't need the generalised version I just need enough to solve this specific problem." Then a hundred years later they come back with a "what were you saying about the n-dimensional generalisation again?"

  • @penisbreath952
    @penisbreath952 4 года назад +140

    love his answer at 15:01 "It makes me pleased, that's all really." :)

    • @randynguyen9006
      @randynguyen9006 4 года назад +16

      @Ryan Henry Dean Thanks for pointing out his Username

  • @sb_dunk
    @sb_dunk 4 года назад +426

    12:23
    "So the reason that x was ok here is because it was multiplied by..."
    "...zed"
    "...zee"
    "This interview is over"

    • @aceman0000099
      @aceman0000099 4 года назад +16

      We need a phoneticphile video to sort this out

    • @antagonistictherapy
      @antagonistictherapy 4 года назад +43

      @@aceman0000099 "phoneticphile" That's a weird way to spell Tom Scott.

    • @vae3716
      @vae3716 4 года назад +2

      It's zed actually

    • @stv3qbhxjnmmqbw835
      @stv3qbhxjnmmqbw835 4 года назад +2

      @@vae3716 but more than 300 million people say it zee. So it's zee for US

    • @PeterBarnes2
      @PeterBarnes2 2 года назад

      I wonder, what do the rules say on whether or not that's a jinx?

  • @inyobill
    @inyobill 4 года назад +21

    And, Bam! Jus like hat, he day after my 72nd birthday, I learned something new. Thanks Dr. Eisenbud, Numberphile, and RUclips.

  • @khalidbinwalid1566
    @khalidbinwalid1566 4 года назад +147

    Listening to him is so soothing. Also, I thought it’d be some familiar factorization from linear algebra, but it turned out to be much cooler!

  • @crimsonkhan3815
    @crimsonkhan3815 4 года назад +50

    I love modesty of mathematicians..they do not brag about their works, because they have no idea where to use it, they just love mathematics, that's all for them.

    • @duartesilva7907
      @duartesilva7907 4 года назад

      Yes. A mathematician knows he never knows everything.

    • @stv3qbhxjnmmqbw835
      @stv3qbhxjnmmqbw835 4 года назад

      @@duartesilva7907 he also knows that he can't know everything. It makes him sad, but that's the reality.

  • @yorickdewid
    @yorickdewid 4 года назад +132

    We see David again!

  • @ebrahimsonday5941
    @ebrahimsonday5941 4 года назад +78

    "If you enlarge the domain of things you accept has a factorization then suddenly it becomes possible to factor." - Dr Eisenbud

    • @JonathanMandrake
      @JonathanMandrake 2 года назад +3

      To be fair, if you told a mathematician in the 16th century that x^2+y^2 factors into (x+iy)(x-iy) they would have told you
      1. What are x,y, ^2 and i supposed to mean? We do math geometrically!
      2. What square could have a negative area (regarding i)?
      Generalising is what always improved math, and if you see something that doesn't generalise itself but is revolutionary, it relies on at least a few new generalisations to work, or it should have been realised way sooner

    • @KilgoreTroutAsf
      @KilgoreTroutAsf 2 года назад

      Yes, these are called field extensions.

  • @RaunySilva
    @RaunySilva 4 года назад +42

    Damn, I think it is just me missing numberphile's uploads frequently, but I was missing this guy. Such a nice person!

  • @neon-rust
    @neon-rust 4 года назад +22

    If he ever wanted branch out, I can see him having a career in audio books with that buttery smooth delivery.

  • @neonblack211
    @neonblack211 4 года назад +241

    Sometimes I think this guy is too high level for this channel. But I wanna see more from him definitely

    • @rogerkearns8094
      @rogerkearns8094 4 года назад +6

      Fair enough, but I find Dr Peyam's channel even more challenging sometimes.

    • @GruntDestroyarChannel
      @GruntDestroyarChannel 4 года назад +50

      I guess it's better if you have some easy stuff and some hard stuff. Something for everyone.

    • @mobius32
      @mobius32 4 года назад +25

      I love Eisenbud's style! He has an ease of explanation that's very enjoyable to listen to.

    • @neonblack211
      @neonblack211 4 года назад +22

      I’m not saying it’s not easy or enjoyable, take my comment with a grain of salt, just the fact he can explain topics like this without losing the layman without dumbing down the mathematics and the fact that he is actually a contributor to pushing mathematics is awesome, and it shows not only in his enthusiasm but his work

    • @neonblack211
      @neonblack211 4 года назад +4

      I just mean that he is actually explaining topics on the cusp of his field, when a lot of these videos suffer from explaining things you would find in a typical course on various levels of mathematics, available on many other channels.... (not that that’s a bad thing either)... I meant it as a positive comment

  • @prikarsartam
    @prikarsartam 4 года назад +8

    Such a great interaction with a very humble mathematician. It really is nice!

  • @MuffinsAPlenty
    @MuffinsAPlenty 4 года назад +80

    12:59 "Proving this depends on the theory of finite free resolutions, in which I'm an expert."
    It feels like a bit of an understatement for Eisenbud to consider himself _only_ an expert on finite free resolutions :P

    • @Lastrevio
      @Lastrevio 4 года назад +6

      i read this comment as he said it

    • @alazrabed
      @alazrabed 4 года назад +1

      Why would it be an understatement? I don't know much about Eisenbud's work.

    • @selenamertvykh6481
      @selenamertvykh6481 4 года назад +9

      @@alazrabed Eisenbud literally wrote the book on commutative algebra.

    • @MuffinsAPlenty
      @MuffinsAPlenty 3 года назад +2

      @@alazrabed Sorry about the very late response! Eisenbud (and his collaborators, such as David Buchsbaum) proved some of the basic and foundational tools in studying finite free resolutions. He pretty much pioneered the topic!

  • @danielurbinatoro9496
    @danielurbinatoro9496 4 года назад +4

    A gem per se (and especially in these troubled times). What a pleasure to watch Prof. Eisenbud. Thank you!

  • @Carbon-XII
    @Carbon-XII 4 года назад +37

    1:52 - "If you don't have enough tricks in your bag, put in a new trick" :-)

  • @ubertoaster99
    @ubertoaster99 4 года назад +4

    This is mindboggling stuff. Kudos to Paul Dirac who only lived a mile or two down the road from where I am now!

  • @nataliaquinones4356
    @nataliaquinones4356 4 года назад +2

    I really enjoy hearing Dr. Eisenbud! :) Thanks for taking the time to make such wonderful videos.

  • @drpkmath12345
    @drpkmath12345 4 года назад +23

    Wow great! Def my favorite in linear algebra~ like the way you present it~

  • @CosmiaNebula
    @CosmiaNebula 4 года назад

    Another perspective on Dirac's equation is that it is factored using numbers from Clifford Algebra (a vast generalization of complex numbers, quaternions, and such).

  • @DyllonStejGaming
    @DyllonStejGaming 4 года назад +123

    I just got done with my Linear Algebra course, and you *had* to remind me of it just a few days later :P

    • @yrrgallerte354
      @yrrgallerte354 4 года назад +21

      Isn't it always nice to see that the stuff you learned is usefull? :)

    • @FtwXXgigady
      @FtwXXgigady 4 года назад +1

      Oh wow it's the TAs guy

    • @victorarturoibanezaliaga8783
      @victorarturoibanezaliaga8783 4 года назад +4

      bro u should watch linear algebra on 3b1b channel if you haven't

    • @jledragon
      @jledragon 4 года назад +4

      Same, I just finished a Bayesian Machine Learning course yesterday and thought I had seen my last matrix for a while!

    • @brightsideofmaths
      @brightsideofmaths 4 года назад +11

      No one is ever really finished with Linear Algebra :)

  • @shaileshrana7165
    @shaileshrana7165 4 года назад +10

    I understood nothing but I loved listening to him.

  • @romanbykov5922
    @romanbykov5922 4 года назад +54

    You kinda lost me halfway to the end, but I still watched it through, cuz it's interesting.

    • @TakeWalker
      @TakeWalker 4 года назад +4

      You have my admiration, I was lost the moment he started talking about matrices. XD

  • @stephenbeck7222
    @stephenbeck7222 4 года назад +35

    Enjoyed studying math and physics at Florida State University where Dirac spent his final years in semi-retirement (apparently he hated the humid summers compared to Cambridge but I bet the winters were much more enjoyable!). Many hours spent trying to understand analysis and algebra in the Dirac Science library.

    • @denisdaly1708
      @denisdaly1708 4 года назад +1

      Glad for you Stephen. Sounds like you took alot in in your course. You have a connection to one of the main men of the 20th century.

  • @Axacqk
    @Axacqk 4 года назад +2

    Love how naturals are represented by a hammer (you can't hit a nail a time and a half), rationals by an an axe (used to "divide" firewood), and complex numbers by a compass (referring to geometric interpretation).

  • @nightworg
    @nightworg 4 года назад +5

    That was awesome. I really like David Eisenbud explanation, and that was an interesting conversation about his work.

  • @exxzxxe
    @exxzxxe Год назад +1

    Every school in the World should have a David Eisenbud teaching math!

  • @michelebotticelli3258
    @michelebotticelli3258 4 года назад +1

    I Just love listening to Professor Eisenbud: he is crystal clear and surprisingly relaxing for me.

  • @kwgm8578
    @kwgm8578 Месяц назад

    David, we engineers may not be writing many papers, but we have used and appreciated your brainchild. Thank you.🧙🏼‍♂️💙

  • @ImKurono
    @ImKurono 4 года назад +2

    He did the matrices portion very well. I enjoyed this alot and it makes me miss learning math. Thank you for this. He seems to be a very humble person.

  • @mathhack8647
    @mathhack8647 2 года назад

    It's not about mathématics only, Everybody listening here can appreciate , modesty, humbleness, altruism, soul beauty and a lot of hope for next scientist generations.
    thanks for those precious minutes of pure pleasure.

  • @davidgillies620
    @davidgillies620 4 года назад +12

    In addition to factoring matrices, you can meaningfully take their logarithms, exponentiate them and take a matrix to the power of another matrix.

    • @typo691
      @typo691 4 года назад

      Whaaaat? Really? How?

    • @lumer2b
      @lumer2b 4 года назад +5

      @@typo691 Taylor series. Those functions (exponential, log) can be represented as an infinite sum. And we now how to sum matrices.

    • @tomkerruish2982
      @tomkerruish2982 4 года назад

      I question taking a matrix to the power of another matrix. Sure, you can do A^B = exp(B ln A), but you could also do A^B = exp((ln A) B), as there's no guarantee that ln A and B commute. (There's also no guarantee that ln A exists - it doesn't, in general - but we can assume it does for the purposes of a definition.)
      I must admit, the concept is new to me, and quite interesting. Thank you.

  • @roderickwhitehead
    @roderickwhitehead 4 года назад +1

    True fact... saw thumbnail of David in my sub feed and was all like, "Aw hail, yeah!"... my favorite guest on Numberphile... and makes me wish I could have had him for a professor.

  • @alaanasr7505
    @alaanasr7505 4 года назад +129

    Early Numberphile videos talks about a specific number.
    Nowadays Numberphile videos talks about partial derivatives and matrices.
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    Future Numberphile videos talks about hypertopology and combinatorial number theoy.

  • @paulpantea9521
    @paulpantea9521 4 года назад +2

    We all need more Eisenbud in our lives.

  • @sarahcogswell9166
    @sarahcogswell9166 Год назад

    Dr. Eisenbud makes this content so approachable

  • @thatdude_93
    @thatdude_93 4 года назад +1

    Yesterday I was rewatching all of Professor Eisenbuds material on this channel and was hoping that there'll be more soon. Looks like my wish came true

  • @lambda494
    @lambda494 4 года назад +1

    The inspiration from Dirac is really awesome. That guy was a genius. A random comment from him inspired Feynman's approach to quantum mechanics. And I use matrix factorizations at work all the time. This is wonderful.

  • @Cobalt0000000
    @Cobalt0000000 4 года назад +2

    I was just procrastinating on a commutative algebra assignment and stumbled upon this video, not realizing this is the very David Eisenbud from the commutative book I was reading! (The book is great, of course.)

  • @WaffleAbuser
    @WaffleAbuser 4 года назад +92

    7:57 I want him to add the parentheses so badly!!!!! This is torture!!!!

    • @moodleblitz
      @moodleblitz 4 года назад

      Why?

    • @worldOFfans
      @worldOFfans 4 года назад +15

      @@moodleblitz becaus xy-uv * A =/= (xy - uv) * A

    • @brightsideofmaths
      @brightsideofmaths 4 года назад +2

      I feel with you :)

    • @MuffinsAPlenty
      @MuffinsAPlenty 4 года назад +19

      @@worldOFfans But xy-(uv*A) doesn't really make any sense at all, so there's only one reasonable interpretation of xy-uv * A.

    • @ericbischoff9444
      @ericbischoff9444 4 года назад +10

      @@MuffinsAPlenty you're right, but you should not rely on reader doing the correctness work for you ;-) .

  • @flymypg
    @flymypg 4 года назад +2

    Oh, I would have dearly loved to see a step-by-step worked example of this! Perhaps for a trivial-but-real case that illustrates the basic mechanism in a way that may fail to illustrate its depth, but still shows its utility.
    Perhaps in a follow-up video?

  • @andrewxc1335
    @andrewxc1335 4 года назад +12

    "So citations are like your video views, then?"
    More like "engagement statistics," since it only counts those people who have actually used your work to do further work.

  • @TheTwick
    @TheTwick 4 года назад

    I could listen to prof Eisenbud for hours. Thank you.

  • @manueldelrio7147
    @manueldelrio7147 4 года назад +1

    I am really fond of Doctor Eisenbud's videos, and by proxy, of himself!

  • @tombulous
    @tombulous 4 года назад

    I'm introducing operator algebra (and factorization) to my Quantum Mechanics Students this week. I'm showing them this video because I find a nice introduction to the idea before we dive into some mathematics. Nice video.

  • @matiasreinoso3393
    @matiasreinoso3393 4 года назад

    This is one of the best videos on this channel thus far

  • @davidianmusic4869
    @davidianmusic4869 4 года назад +1

    Mind, phew, blown. Yes, you’ve reached this audience, thanks for the enlightenment.

  • @DerNesor
    @DerNesor 4 года назад

    This channel is 86% reason why I will quit my job and go for a PHD ... I can't live without this stuff ^^

  • @thederivationchannel4243
    @thederivationchannel4243 4 года назад

    What a brilliant educator. So humble and down to earth

  • @kaakatin
    @kaakatin 4 года назад +3

    Could you make a video about Clifford algebra? It is a pretty cool way to simplify and unify a lot of mathematics in physics, and I think it deserves to be shown to larger audiences. Dirac's matrix problem in this video is basically Clifford algebra, but just with a matrix representation.

  • @daniellanes813
    @daniellanes813 4 года назад

    Started watching, watching took over, this Dr. got some chill charisma.

  • @charlieangkor8649
    @charlieangkor8649 3 года назад +1

    This number domain expansion technique is especially useful during exams. Example: a kid gets an exam problem: divide 173 by 7. So the kid writes: "Let's extend the set of integers by a new number i, so that 7i=173. So the result of our problems is i". And this way he avoids the mentally exhausting process of actually solving the problem.

  • @javierantoniosilva8477
    @javierantoniosilva8477 4 года назад +3

    I'd love to see more of Numberphile regulars explaining us part of their research.

  • @1978Maedhros
    @1978Maedhros 4 года назад +6

    OMG that's Eisenbud?? The writer of one of my favorite books! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @meexi9824
    @meexi9824 4 года назад

    I don’t get it , I almost watch every Numberphile Video on release , but this video didn’t show up in my feed. Might be the best video on yt I’ve seen in weeks. May the algorithm be with you for the next video . Love the Eisenbud Videos and hoping for another one with Clifford Stoll

  • @NeoLogicification
    @NeoLogicification 4 года назад +18

    Could someone explain the connection between finding the root of xy-uv and finding roots of x^2+y^2+z^2+t^2? I don't see how it relates to complex numbers.

    • @martinepstein9826
      @martinepstein9826 4 года назад +20

      Let's say the first equation is rs - uv. We get the second equation if we set
      r = x + iy
      s = x - iy
      u = z + it
      v = -z + it

    • @Miyelsh
      @Miyelsh 4 года назад +4

      @@martinepstein9826 To get the equation with -t^2, set u = -z + t and v = z + t

    • @cretinobambino
      @cretinobambino 4 года назад +7

      I too felt like this was an important link that was missing.

  • @bittertea
    @bittertea 4 года назад +9

    I aspire to be at his level of chill.

  • @kiro9291
    @kiro9291 4 года назад +2

    this professor is a lovely teacher

  • @gabrielhermesson9926
    @gabrielhermesson9926 4 года назад +7

    As soon as they mentioned Dirac in the context of the mathematical toolbox, I thought they might talk about the Dirac delta.

  • @kcmichaelm
    @kcmichaelm 4 года назад

    This entire video was so heartwarming. I loved it.

  • @chunchen3450
    @chunchen3450 4 года назад +5

    Amazing! Never realized that a polynomial can be directly linked to matrix. Usually it is taught as a series of equations. It would be interesting to know any applications that prefer to turn matrix into ploynomials

    • @Belioyt
      @Belioyt 4 года назад

      He just talked about Dirac and how he applied it to quantum mechanics

    • @Belioyt
      @Belioyt 4 года назад

      It's also used in string theory

    • @tomkerruish2982
      @tomkerruish2982 4 года назад

      For square matrices, there's the characteristic polynomial, whose (ordinary numerical, i.e. complex) roots are the eigenvalues of the matrix. Interestingly, the matrix itself is a root of its characteristic polynomial.

  • @trevorteolis3691
    @trevorteolis3691 4 года назад +1

    Great video, Professor Eisenbud is great to watch. I would've liked to see more details though.

  • @王珂-k7d
    @王珂-k7d 4 года назад +6

    Respect to Eisenbud, and his gigantic GTM Commutative Algebra

    • @selenamertvykh6481
      @selenamertvykh6481 4 года назад

      @@edawgroe It's a graduate-level text. At minimum you'd need to have had an undergrad abstract algebra course that tackled rings and fields.

  • @sbmathsyt5306
    @sbmathsyt5306 4 года назад +1

    Such a soothing voice and very interesting video as per usual.

  • @samuelthecamel
    @samuelthecamel 4 года назад +27

    Prof. Eisenbud: "Matrices"
    High School Students: ight, imma head out

  • @redambersoul
    @redambersoul 4 года назад

    He is just the guy I want to take classes om algebra ... He is heartwarming in his wise love to the area he is an expert of.

  • @digitig
    @digitig 4 года назад +2

    I loved "Nature just said, 'you should have been using matrices all along'"

  • @omarsamraxyz
    @omarsamraxyz 4 года назад +1

    I love Dr. Eisenbud❤️❤️

  • @SATOUBLOGS
    @SATOUBLOGS 4 года назад +1

    Thanks you. Really kinda clicked the relation between the SU(2) generating matrices and pauli's matrices.

  • @ericpowell96
    @ericpowell96 4 года назад +5

    He has such a relaxing voice 😴

    • @Belioyt
      @Belioyt 4 года назад

      Yes, I want him to narrate an audiobook

  • @jhhtaylor
    @jhhtaylor 4 года назад +1

    Love the animations on this video

  • @allmycircuits8850
    @allmycircuits8850 4 года назад +1

    I'm currently working on rendezvous algorithm which uses quaternions to represent rotation of one object relative to other.But for initial "guess" there is affine approximation: we convert image of object into 2x2 matrix and 2x1 vector. And one of my tasks was to factor this 2x2 matrix into rotation, scale and "aspect" (looking from the side). So this video was very close to me: matrix factorization and also Dirac trick which has something to do with quaternions, though I still don't understand this connection thoroughly...

  • @senkottuvelan
    @senkottuvelan 4 года назад +2

    Even if I couldn't understand at first. He made me understand like magic. Great video from a nice guy. 😊

  • @mananself
    @mananself 4 года назад +17

    “Dirac was satisfied. He invented matrix mechanics...” but I thought matrix mechanics was developed by Heisenberg.

    • @Rififi50
      @Rififi50 4 года назад +9

      He misspoke, I guess. What he shows in the video leads to the Dirac equation, a relativistic wave equation and not matrix mechanics. He is after all, as he says himself, not a physicist ;)
      The whole motivation Dirac had was that the original relativistic wave equation, the Klein-Gordon equation, yields wave functions that cannot be transformed into probabilities. Taking the square root of it, so to say, would solve the issues but without considering matrix factorization there is just no way.
      Matrix mechanics, from looking through Wikipedia, appears to be the early version if the Heisenberg picture. A refrence frame where you evolve operators instead of wave functions. With fixed wavefunctions, the formalism can be considered as working only with matrices (given a chosen basis).

    • @mananself
      @mananself 4 года назад +1

      Rififi50 yeah I was waiting for him to say Dirac introduced antimatter to interpret the solutions of the Dirac equation.

    • @MatthijsvanDuin
      @MatthijsvanDuin 4 года назад +1

      To be fair, he's not a physicist

  • @dominiquelaurain6427
    @dominiquelaurain6427 4 года назад

    Thanks Professor Eisenbud, I learned more about maths and physics history. You gave more than the maths ideas but also the fighting spirit to go farther :-)

  • @abhinavagarwal244
    @abhinavagarwal244 4 года назад

    Fantastic....always had this question in mind...nobody answered this way

  • @bittertea
    @bittertea 4 года назад +5

    Could we have more linear algebra on this channel please?

  • @thescienceprint5825
    @thescienceprint5825 4 года назад

    David Eisenbud is an American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and was Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute from 1997 to 2007. He was reappointed to this office in 2013, and his term has been extended until July 31, 2022.

  • @T75-n1m
    @T75-n1m 4 года назад +7

    Just been into trouble with Unitary Matrix Decomposition for weeks and Now I see this in my recommendation......

  • @Ricocossa1
    @Ricocossa1 4 года назад

    I remember doing that little computation in particle physics. I didn't realise it was such an important mathematical concept.

  • @skylardeslypere9909
    @skylardeslypere9909 2 года назад +1

    I've got a question about his theorem. If you do allow the matrix factorization to include constants, does it mean we CAN factor any and every polynomial?
    Take P(X,Y) = X+Y² for example. If we 'treat' it as another polynomial P(X,Y,Z)=XZ+Y², factor that one without constants, and plug in Z=1, do we not get a factorization?

  • @danibarack552
    @danibarack552 4 года назад +7

    I would have liked to see him actually factorize the polynomial hr started with..

  • @nocturnomedieval
    @nocturnomedieval 4 года назад +2

    Nice one. I really enjoyed it.

  • @anuraaggad
    @anuraaggad 4 года назад

    Great video and such a nice humble professor.

  • @mehfak
    @mehfak 4 года назад +8

    I really love Professor Eisenbud videos. I would have loved to have him teach me mathematics (especially algebra). Is there any course from him online ? (PDF, Vidéos, etc.)

    • @王珂-k7d
      @王珂-k7d 4 года назад +2

      you can just buy his GTM, the thickest GTM of all

    • @alicewyan
      @alicewyan 4 года назад

      @@王珂-k7d Lee's Smooth Manifolds is thicker IIRC

    • @Belioyt
      @Belioyt 4 года назад

      @@王珂-k7d what's GTM?

    • @MuffinsAPlenty
      @MuffinsAPlenty 4 года назад +2

      @@Belioyt Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Prof. Eisenbud's "Commutative Algebra: with a View Toward Algebraic Geometry" is about 800 pages long.

  • @lamgam-ts8tr
    @lamgam-ts8tr 9 месяцев назад

    Dr. Eisenbud is a treasure

  • @MrYashraj
    @MrYashraj 4 года назад

    A Person With Exceptional Skill In A Particular Area❤❤❤.

  • @RalphDratman
    @RalphDratman 4 года назад

    This is unusually clear! Well, to my slow brain it is unusual to be able to follow along so easily. So, thank you.

  • @cwaddle
    @cwaddle 4 года назад +1

    So what is the application of the matrix factorization? The traditional polynomial factorization will tell you where the zeros are, but does the matrix factorization do the same thing?

  • @legendhero-eu1lc
    @legendhero-eu1lc 4 года назад

    Thank you for the video! All of you friends are super awesome! Oh moments with this video are sad.

  • @fcarvajalbrown
    @fcarvajalbrown 4 года назад

    As always, great video

  • @thescienceprint5825
    @thescienceprint5825 4 года назад

    Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was an English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century. Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.

  • @exxzxxe
    @exxzxxe Год назад

    You, sir are a gentleman as well as a scholar!

  • @foxtrot.tango.whisky
    @foxtrot.tango.whisky 4 года назад +1

    Can we get a video on probing variation of the fine-structure constant using the strong gravitational lensing?
    Please.
    Thank you.

  • @zupacs
    @zupacs 4 года назад +2

    7:56 parenthesis is missing.

  • @businessguide6219
    @businessguide6219 4 года назад

    Thanks for sharing this!

  • @braedenlarson9122
    @braedenlarson9122 4 года назад

    I’m actually writing my essay on paraxial matrices in optics! Matrices are super convenient for simplifying complicated systems!

  • @Celastrous
    @Celastrous 4 года назад +1

    At 8:48, how does multiplying two 2x2 matrices line up with a 4x4 matrix? The matrix squared should stay 2x2 and diagonal, with squared elements only.

    • @MuffinsAPlenty
      @MuffinsAPlenty 4 года назад +1

      They aren't 2x2 matrices he's multiplying together. Those are "block matrices". Remember that A and B are both 2x2 matrices.

  • @matteolacki4533
    @matteolacki4533 4 года назад

    This is simply awesome!