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The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor

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2020 ж. 5 Шіл.
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Dig into the mystery of Nicolas Bourbaki- one of the most influential mathematicians of all time… who never actually existed.
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When Nicolas Bourbaki applied to the American Mathematical Society in the 1950s, he was already one of the most influential mathematicians of his time. He’d published articles in international journals and his textbooks were required reading. Yet his application was firmly rejected for one simple reason: Nicolas Bourbaki did not exist. How is that possible? Pratik Aghor digs into the mystery.
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  • so you're telling me, that a group of university students didn't like their math textbook so they made a new one? damn.

    @Sammyoed@Sammyoed3 жыл бұрын

    • Some of them were professors when the group started. However, all of them were in their twenties. So, pretty young.

      @pratikaghor987@pratikaghor9873 жыл бұрын

    • How smart do you have to be to do that?

      @Gadget-Walkmen@Gadget-Walkmen3 жыл бұрын

    • They were prestigious mathematicians and you had to be an elite to be able to join. They wanted a continuous math, and they came up with many important definitions. They unified math. They were aggressive literally! In one of their meetings seen by a mathematician not in the group the fights were so violent that one person broke a table over a definition !

      @charonpluto1085@charonpluto10853 жыл бұрын

    • @@charonpluto1085 now I know why my professor said "definitions are life or death"

      @lynettemojica6503@lynettemojica65033 жыл бұрын

    • @@lynettemojica6503 good!

      @akshaypendyala@akshaypendyala3 жыл бұрын

  • Imagine looking at your calculus book and thinking, "man, i can write better than that."

    @stormysamreen7062@stormysamreen70623 жыл бұрын

    • probably comes down to how people views school and learning other countries have a completely different view of schooling

      @aa-jt1yt@aa-jt1yt2 жыл бұрын

    • Honestly I think this everyday. I’m just built different.

      @jeremias-serus@jeremias-serus2 жыл бұрын

    • Imagine looking at a calculator and thinking, "7+5=?"

      @deleted_handle@deleted_handle2 жыл бұрын

    • to be fair modern calculus and math books are so undated, i mean in the logic they are on point, but the way it presents its is so old and weird. you have to be a math genius or very talented to understand and learn just from a raw math and calculus book. We for sure would use a better approch for ANYONE that want to learn math from scrach

      @v44n7@v44n72 жыл бұрын

    • @@v44n7 the school system should change like if someone wants to be in a specific job he/she doesn’t need a specific subject or most of the subject like art to be in a specific engineer for example industrial engineer u need geometry not how to draw an object

      @izzeldeenmez4343@izzeldeenmez43432 жыл бұрын

  • Mathematicians : Hmm.. We don't hane an author... LET AUTHOR BE x

    @user-ht3tp3uj4v@user-ht3tp3uj4v3 жыл бұрын

    • X= Nicolas Bourbaki (so precise)

      @adventureawaits3860@adventureawaits38603 жыл бұрын

    • "but, y?"

      @ramduar@ramduar3 жыл бұрын

    • @@ramduar y=life So it's a complex equation

      @amansahayminz8247@amansahayminz82473 жыл бұрын

    • z=?

      @karlkapple6531@karlkapple65313 жыл бұрын

    • @@karlkapple6531 z= x+iy where x is name and y is life. A perfect complex equation

      @amansahayminz8247@amansahayminz82473 жыл бұрын

  • One of the nerdiest "it's a prank bro" moments

    @Ceshua@Ceshua3 жыл бұрын

    • lmfao

      @zkskakksis1514@zkskakksis15142 жыл бұрын

  • His existence was imaginary, his influence was real... You could say that's quite *complex*

    @wizardinchiktrodon@wizardinchiktrodon3 жыл бұрын

    • 😂😂😂😂😂

      @vinitabisht712@vinitabisht7123 жыл бұрын

    • not funny didn't laugh

      @-guitarhero@-guitarhero3 жыл бұрын

    • bruh

      @maisamaskari8774@maisamaskari87743 жыл бұрын

    • 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣THAT’S AN AWESOME JOKE

      @coleabrahams9331@coleabrahams93313 жыл бұрын

    • 😆😆😆😆😆

      @nuji8942@nuji89423 жыл бұрын

  • The smartest, elaborate, and important prank ever

    @saucyyikers3877@saucyyikers38773 жыл бұрын

    • Saucy Yikers is to drumm roll pls Shut up😂😂✌️

      @anime4life930@anime4life9303 жыл бұрын

    • @@anime4life930 ummm I dont get it

      @saucyyikers3877@saucyyikers38773 жыл бұрын

    • Saucy Yikers um I mean like why do u have to write this comment no one asked u too

      @anime4life930@anime4life9303 жыл бұрын

    • Saucy Yikers I’m just kidding I’m not mean

      @anime4life930@anime4life9303 жыл бұрын

    • Saucy Yikers 😜🤣

      @anime4life930@anime4life9303 жыл бұрын

  • “I don’t get you” “Me neither” sounds like your standard math conversation 😂

    @jackanderson6966@jackanderson69663 жыл бұрын

  • These guys are their time's equivalent of "doing it for a meme".

    @SamiShukayr@SamiShukayr3 жыл бұрын

    • Different generation, same antics. Nice👌.

      @__Hmmmmmmmm__@__Hmmmmmmmm__2 жыл бұрын

  • When you dont like your textbook so you prank mathematicians by pretending to be a man from Russia.

    @thisisahumanlol8255@thisisahumanlol82553 жыл бұрын

    • Irodov wants to know your location!

      @maxpoweroverdrive@maxpoweroverdrive3 жыл бұрын

    • In Soviet Russia, others don't make you read za book... you write your own...

      @thisrandomdude_@thisrandomdude_3 жыл бұрын

    • ARandomDude You didn’t need to mention za accent

      @dedley2664@dedley26643 жыл бұрын

    • @@maxpoweroverdrive hey man he wrote more about physics than mathematics

      @parasb6485@parasb64853 жыл бұрын

    • @@dedley2664 ok it's G O N E now I edited it so that the joke looks better

      @thisrandomdude_@thisrandomdude_3 жыл бұрын

  • Plot Twist: Nicolas was real and the group killed him to take his credit.

    @ShauryaSingh-ts2oc@ShauryaSingh-ts2oc3 жыл бұрын

    • Whoa whoa calm down my dude! That was dark👀

      @shivakumargujjari@shivakumargujjari3 жыл бұрын

    • cursed comment

      @deepstariaenigmatica2601@deepstariaenigmatica26013 жыл бұрын

    • Woah...

      @esmeray9704@esmeray97043 жыл бұрын

    • I am here be careful.. 😐🙏

      @tribhavansingh9536@tribhavansingh95363 жыл бұрын

    • Stop

      @illusionfaderr5394@illusionfaderr53943 жыл бұрын

  • It’s so amazing to imagine just how intelligent these students were. They were clearly not just your everyday people, but geniuses in their own ways. Also, I love how this indirectly tells us, that even though we as individuals may not be comparable to legends like Einstein, Pythagoras or Newton, but in groups, we’re capable of achieving amazing achievements.

    @Sarik0497@Sarik04973 жыл бұрын

    • So.......like..........."Two heads are better than one"?

      @Heart2HeartBooks@Heart2HeartBooks Жыл бұрын

    • @@Heart2HeartBooks Exactly. Together humanity grows. Apart it is nothing.

      @ajcon3874@ajcon3874 Жыл бұрын

    • Most maths students are very intelligent and there was a lot undiscovered or not formalized at the time. There are many more maths geniuses among us today but the problems have become more difficult.

      @davidgutierrez3312@davidgutierrez3312 Жыл бұрын

    • ​@@davidgutierrez3312 I won't say most.. But some...

      @i2keepitrealInreseach@i2keepitrealInreseach4 ай бұрын

  • That moment when you "prank" half the world's population into using a textbook made by a ghost...

    @thehammerandsickle2490@thehammerandsickle24903 жыл бұрын

    • Em ghost is probably not an accurate word since ghost would 'exist' if you know what im saying

      @callen34659@callen346592 жыл бұрын

  • “Nicolas Bourbaki may have been imaginary, but his legacy is very real.” So you could say he was... complex?

    @GRBtutorials@GRBtutorials3 жыл бұрын

    • Nah, just projecting.

      @lonestarr1490@lonestarr14903 жыл бұрын

    • that's a nice one. a math joke under a math video.

      @dinghanxue704@dinghanxue7043 жыл бұрын

    • Good one haha.

      @527vamsikrishna3@527vamsikrishna33 жыл бұрын

    • You have no argument

      @alexisp-c379@alexisp-c3793 жыл бұрын

    • that was a good one lol

      @stevewilldoit_cuzwhynot@stevewilldoit_cuzwhynot3 жыл бұрын

  • Everybody gangsta till their textbooks’ author doesn’t exist.

    @thinhnonyt@thinhnonyt3 жыл бұрын

    • I don't know why but I find this funny

      @kavinbharathirm9478@kavinbharathirm94783 жыл бұрын

    • Hmmm. Kimetsu no yaiba?

      @wickivicton9450@wickivicton94503 жыл бұрын

    • @@wickivicton9450 No it's a JoJo reference

      @baguette745@baguette7453 жыл бұрын

    • @@wickivicton9450 Have u read the manga or just has watched the anime? 😃 btw big fan.

      @Bakasta170@Bakasta1703 жыл бұрын

    • @@Bakasta170 both

      @wickivicton9450@wickivicton94503 жыл бұрын

  • A bunch of mathematicians that didn't mind not taking credit for their work! Mad respect!

    @PeacePham1991@PeacePham19913 жыл бұрын

    • True!

      @vozamaraktv-art5595@vozamaraktv-art55953 жыл бұрын

  • Pranks back then : let's create a character and write groundbreaking math in his name,hehe. Pranks nowadays : so I burnt my friends home and bought him a new one.

    @genkideska4486@genkideska44863 жыл бұрын

  • "No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness." --Aristotle

    @QuestionEverythingButWHY@QuestionEverythingButWHY3 жыл бұрын

    • wasn't that Einstein when talking about paul dirac?

      @deepstariaenigmatica2601@deepstariaenigmatica26013 жыл бұрын

    • Heh... I have more than atouch’

      @Ell_lovell@Ell_lovell3 жыл бұрын

    • "No better place to learn math than on the internet" - Pythagoras

      @blabla-rg7ky@blabla-rg7ky3 жыл бұрын

    • bla bla Can’t deny such a universal quote by Pythagoras

      @ayman9224@ayman92243 жыл бұрын

    • @@ayman9224 glad you agree :)

      @blabla-rg7ky@blabla-rg7ky3 жыл бұрын

  • "Hey guys I just had and idea." "What?" "What if we pretend to be some Russian dude when we publish this book?" *silence* "THAT'S GENIUS!"

    @merrittanimation7721@merrittanimation77213 жыл бұрын

    • The lads just having fun.

      @ma1ist@ma1ist3 жыл бұрын

    • Yes

      @asopbob6064@asopbob60643 жыл бұрын

    • 🤣

      @rnwillyanto@rnwillyanto3 жыл бұрын

    • @@ma1ist me and the boys secretly writing a book as a prank

      @jaclies7628@jaclies76283 жыл бұрын

    • In Soviet Russia, others don't make you read za book... you write your own...

      @thisrandomdude_@thisrandomdude_3 жыл бұрын

  • Whoever made the idea on writing puns in Nicholas' obituary deserves an applause.

    @angelyiu629@angelyiu6293 жыл бұрын

    • Now we need those puns.

      @jakubpiekarski5591@jakubpiekarski55913 жыл бұрын

    • *mad lads*

      @hwgoblin@hwgoblin2 жыл бұрын

  • This is nothing compared to the greatest scientist of all time, "Et Al."

    @blackout995@blackout9953 жыл бұрын

    • lol 😂

      @divishatewari7612@divishatewari76122 жыл бұрын

    • The means to do what he does

      @michaelmclemore649@michaelmclemore6492 жыл бұрын

    • Math is the father of science and language. Man counted before he organized his language (discovered numbers). Without his father Math, Science cannot stand. Math stands without science. In fact the biggest fan of Math is his son Science that he graciously lent the power to toddler off into the sunset

      @michaelmclemore649@michaelmclemore6492 жыл бұрын

    • Can you guys explain da joke pls?

      @skycopper1336@skycopper13362 жыл бұрын

    • When a document is quoted in order to give credit you must cite the authors and put them in your References or Bibliography. When a document has many authors you only mention some of them and then you put "et al." which means "and others". Et al. Appears in many citations, that's the joke.

      @user-dl1bs6lm1g@user-dl1bs6lm1g2 жыл бұрын

  • I never understood why people would give credit to a made up dude for the excellent work that they did

    @shaheen4663@shaheen46633 жыл бұрын

    • Guess they were all about the laughs

      @aliyannadeem1104@aliyannadeem11043 жыл бұрын

    • Because for a lot of mathematicians, it isn’t about being recognized. It’s about the betterment of mathematics. Great example of this is Grigori Perelman who proved Poincaré conjecture but turned down the award.

      @isaiahestabrook6247@isaiahestabrook62473 жыл бұрын

    • Mathematicians tend to be masochists. In all sorts of ways.

      @danielsteel5251@danielsteel52513 жыл бұрын

    • A lot of these results weren’t new or ground breaking ZFC was already formalized by the time of “Bourbaki”

      @duckymomo7935@duckymomo79353 жыл бұрын

    • ikr like Einstein didn’t think that what he discovered was special at all

      @mazeemadaline3091@mazeemadaline30913 жыл бұрын

  • “I like Russia” “Ok?” “Let’s pretend to be Russian “

    @bobypiza@bobypiza3 жыл бұрын

    • We like Russia. That's the truth and at the same a communism joke. Feels good.

      @maninthecrowd5076@maninthecrowd50763 жыл бұрын

    • Actually named after an old French general, not a Russian.

      @peterfireflylund@peterfireflylund3 жыл бұрын

    • @@maninthecrowd5076 get out capitalist jocker

      @MaheshKumar-vw6uo@MaheshKumar-vw6uo3 жыл бұрын

    • Jorjeeta Panda who asked?

      @anime4life930@anime4life9303 жыл бұрын

    • “Let’s pretend to be Russian” “You mean Russians?” “No no, Russian”

      @Qbe_Root@Qbe_Root3 жыл бұрын

  • he was so famous, he even got a 21 pilots song made after him

    @relatablenoodles9245@relatablenoodles92453 жыл бұрын

    • @Sousea morph

      @violetboulevard3899@violetboulevard38992 жыл бұрын

    • The 21 pilots song was so great 20th century mathematicians had a pseudonym inspired by it

      @youraveragegrandma568@youraveragegrandma5682 жыл бұрын

    • i was wondering how far i’d have to go for this comment

      @nate_storm@nate_storm2 жыл бұрын

    • Still dont get why TOP mentioned his name

      @SaiTheForgotten@SaiTheForgotten2 жыл бұрын

    • @@SaiTheForgotten yh the i dont get the why the leader of the niners was named after him

      @alex_plds@alex_plds2 жыл бұрын

  • They should make a movie about this!!!

    @enchantking@enchantking3 жыл бұрын

    • omg so true that would be amazing

      @LdNote@LdNote2 жыл бұрын

  • Descartes : I THINK, THEREFORE I AM. Bourbaki : THEY THINK, THEREFORE I AM. 😇😇😇

    @nigelmaccuver9122@nigelmaccuver91223 жыл бұрын

    • Billie Ellish: Therefore I am

      @lisahoang5166@lisahoang51662 жыл бұрын

    • That's actually... brilliant.

      @rougeandrei9095@rougeandrei90952 жыл бұрын

    • Elite joke

      @dylanmark1834@dylanmark18342 жыл бұрын

    • You are really a mathematician

      @rufaiguruboy7677@rufaiguruboy76772 жыл бұрын

    • I rebel therefore we are

      @ryanblechta7156@ryanblechta71562 жыл бұрын

  • "All but one of us are gonna be referenced as 'et.al' anyway" -the authors, probably

    @mk_rexx@mk_rexx3 жыл бұрын

    • Ultimate math/science troll: change your name to "et al". that way we can get "et al et.al"

      @gildedbear5355@gildedbear53553 жыл бұрын

    • etality

      @playmaker.3596@playmaker.35963 жыл бұрын

    • I was just asking myself that! How do you reference the work of an imaginary person? 💭

      @shiningdahlia@shiningdahlia3 жыл бұрын

    • @@shiningdahlia Well you have to keep in mind that for people who lived at the time, Bourbaki was very much a "real" person. So yeah, including him in references is not really that much of an issue

      @forreadingoutloud6282@forreadingoutloud62823 жыл бұрын

    • GildedBear “et-al et al” I do think that’s how some of the early algebra treatises were attributed.

      @wellesradio@wellesradio3 жыл бұрын

  • "If every *possible* output could be mapped onto *by* at least one input" is in my mind a better phrasing for surjectivity. Great video! 😍

    @MHeymann@MHeymann3 жыл бұрын

  • "Who should be the author?" "Nicolas something...." "Great Idea!!!"

    @Snehal_Bajpeyee@Snehal_Bajpeyee3 жыл бұрын

  • Maybe the greatest mathematician was the friend we made along the way.

    @ujwalbasnet9444@ujwalbasnet94443 жыл бұрын

    • bourbaki, I swear to God I will leave you in russia.

      @wohoi@wohoi3 жыл бұрын

    • I thought Nicholas Bourbaki was a guy from twenty one pilots' album, trench You can find that name in their song morph

      @leonardopaulsen2116@leonardopaulsen21163 жыл бұрын

    • What if... it was all... a dream...?

      @thisrandomdude_@thisrandomdude_3 жыл бұрын

    • Bifrost Bigfoot.. This was hilarious. Still laughing.

      @AnimeCritical@AnimeCritical3 жыл бұрын

    • *imaginary friend*

      @deliriousjason8133@deliriousjason81333 жыл бұрын

  • "Hey, lets publish our work under a pseudonym. Which one do you think people will take seriously?" "Russian. People only trust wisdom and knowledge when they come from far away. Can't ever grow that stuff locally it seems."

    @Panda_Roll@Panda_Roll3 жыл бұрын

    • Fyaza Heylets lets publis v

      @sovimohammedsaeed7802@sovimohammedsaeed78023 жыл бұрын

    • e

      @wafer8870@wafer88703 жыл бұрын

    • C

      @royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409@royaldecreeforthechurchofm84093 жыл бұрын

    • d

      @t-gaygaygay8164@t-gaygaygay81643 жыл бұрын

    • That and lots of mathematicians came from the Soviet Union. The coolest kids at most schools at that time in the Soviet Union were kids who were good at math and physics. In the western world, they are considered weird and kind of shameful to be like that.

      @baxakk7374@baxakk73743 жыл бұрын

  • When a fictional guy's life has more meaning than mine 😭

    @michaleandmore5111@michaleandmore51113 жыл бұрын

    • F

      @sirthomasfishnchips2477@sirthomasfishnchips24772 жыл бұрын

    • It's a long list. For example, Batman.

      @grammar_shark@grammar_shark6 ай бұрын

  • Nicolas bourbaki: hi- Tyler joseph: hippity hoppity you're now in dema

    @mordecaithesage25@mordecaithesage253 жыл бұрын

  • Damn I just can’t imagine being smart enough to rewrite your school’s whole dang textbook

    @illusionfaderr5394@illusionfaderr53943 жыл бұрын

    • Cuz knowledge isn't spoon-fed before. They need to discover thing cause ya know they can't google 😅

      @anemari5809@anemari58093 жыл бұрын

    • @@anemari5809 how can you not make sense on so many different levels, that's kind of brilliant.

      @memoboy4141@memoboy41413 жыл бұрын

    • @@memoboy4141 are you unable to read English? That is quite amazing.

      @hybmnzz2658@hybmnzz26583 жыл бұрын

    • @@hybmnzz2658 you should meet my 1 yr old niece

      @raspberrycrowns9494@raspberrycrowns94943 жыл бұрын

    • @@hybmnzz2658 That was engrish, sir.

      @markusoreos.233@markusoreos.2333 жыл бұрын

  • "Nicolas Bourbaki may have been IMAGINARY, but his legacy is very REAL." I see what you did there, TED-Ed.

    @YEdwardP@YEdwardP3 жыл бұрын

    • YEdwardP Im(Bourbaki)=life Re(Bourbaki)=legacy

      @pleaseenteraname4824@pleaseenteraname48243 жыл бұрын

    • I don’t get it. That reference was too complex for me

      @blackmamba1261@blackmamba12613 жыл бұрын

    • @@blackmamba1261 it's quite irrational

      @srash8854@srash88543 жыл бұрын

    • @@srash8854 I dunno, seems pretty natural to me

      @archeopterixneuroza4715@archeopterixneuroza47153 жыл бұрын

    • @@archeopterixneuroza4715 the fact that y'all are _add_ ing puns is _whole_ some

      @dhrithivbhat@dhrithivbhat3 жыл бұрын

  • Those Mathematicians are Madlads at a whole new level

    @klarissemagallanes8961@klarissemagallanes89613 жыл бұрын

  • "He'll always try to stop me, that Nicholas Bourbaki He's got no friends close but those who know him most know He goes by Nico, he told me I'm a copy" ~Morph - Twenty One Pilots

    @zaclanderos1624@zaclanderos16242 жыл бұрын

  • I can just imagine all the Geniuses who died in the world wars and how the world might be totally different if at least a few mozarts and einsteins lived. May they rest in peace.

    @Challyyeh@Challyyeh3 жыл бұрын

    • and it is also sad that most of the technologies advancing are a result of military research.

      @dinghanxue704@dinghanxue7043 жыл бұрын

    • Dont really know man. While it did alot of damage, it also allow the society to grow. Without world war I and II. We may not have the Unite Nation either. Small country might still be used by big nation and big nation might still have minor conflict over and over. And tbh, the world war is such a big war that everyone just so done with it and want peace. That period of peace allow technology and science to grow exponentially. The tech we have today is sth people from 100years ago could never imagine of. While these great mind die, their legacy live on. These group of mathematicians is collecting their legacy and set a universal standard. That mean, their work didn't go to waste. They didnt live on to do more math discovery, but our today mathematician are just as capable.

      @prumchhangsreng979@prumchhangsreng9793 жыл бұрын

    • Wihout it, we probably wouldnt have a use to apply all that theory practically.

      @honkhonk8009@honkhonk80093 жыл бұрын

    • @@prumchhangsreng979 woah dude, that one is beautiful

      @valhatan3907@valhatan39073 жыл бұрын

    • @@dinghanxue704 Necessity drives actions

      @boslyporshy6553@boslyporshy65532 жыл бұрын

  • TED-ED: Nicolas Bourbaki never existed Me: "surprised Pikachu face"

    @MarvelGeek@MarvelGeek3 жыл бұрын

    • ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⣶⣶ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⣀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡏⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠉⠁⠀⣿ ⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⠟⠿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿ ⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⢰⣹⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣭⣷⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⢾⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⡠⠤⢄⠀⠀⠀⠠⣿⣿⣷⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢄⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿

      @jofx4051@jofx40513 жыл бұрын

    • Nice!

      @MarvelGeek@MarvelGeek3 жыл бұрын

  • They pretty much went back to basics, making a modern work of Euclid. His own “Elements” was quite similar.

    @MalignantToaster@MalignantToaster3 жыл бұрын

  • A glance into the Wikipedia article tells that this group still lives and their latest publication was in 2016

    @stanley_george@stanley_george3 жыл бұрын

  • I just looked all of their names up and was incredibly saddened when I found all had died except one, Jean-Pierre Serre. R.I.P. mathematical legends.

    @MathMadeEasy@MathMadeEasy3 жыл бұрын

    • it's just nature's law.

      @dinghanxue704@dinghanxue7043 жыл бұрын

    • Bourbaki still exist. Jean-Pierre was fired as he is more than 50 years old.

      @theyoutubeuser6797@theyoutubeuser67973 жыл бұрын

    • He was and still is the youngest winner of the Fields Medal, at the age of 27.

      @mohitjain088@mohitjain0882 жыл бұрын

    • Yeah, the thing with Bourbaki is that all the members are below a certain age and are all anonymous until one member is at least old enough, and so, out of the group. Then Idk what the specifics are, but iirc it's the member's decision to tell if they were a member or not, but usually former members we know of are old when they're still alive.

      @clemente3966@clemente39662 жыл бұрын

  • Me:*unable to understand the math text book* after watching this video,my mind:"I will write my own math text book"

    @tintirinao@tintirinao3 жыл бұрын

  • Thanks for the video.

    @manuelangeldomingueztoribi6516@manuelangeldomingueztoribi6516 Жыл бұрын

  • This is a great content that I've shared in my social media. Keep it for further!

    @cestrocchia@cestrocchia3 жыл бұрын

  • Honestly I kinda get it, if I was a part of the team, I'd rather choose a cool group name to "represent" everyone than being reduced to et al. lol

    @Moon-iv1xy@Moon-iv1xy3 жыл бұрын

    • I didn't think about that, everytime I put et al. for the papers I had written, I always feel bad for all the other names that also deserved recognition.

      @mayaibarra85@mayaibarra853 жыл бұрын

  • He’ll always try to stop me, that Nicholas Bourbaki

    @firstname4653@firstname46533 жыл бұрын

    • TOP fans liked that 😎

      @XxSwagBeatboxerxX@XxSwagBeatboxerxX3 жыл бұрын

    • He's got no friends close but those who know him most know , he goes by nico he told me I am copy and when I heard he'd mocked me THAT ALMOST STOPPED ME

      @zaarakhan6824@zaarakhan68243 жыл бұрын

    • We'll we're surrounded and we're hounded

      @TemPestKratos@TemPestKratos3 жыл бұрын

    • theres no above or a secret door

      @sofiavelardez2441@sofiavelardez24413 жыл бұрын

    • what are we here for?

      @alexandermcleanalmndbuttrt4714@alexandermcleanalmndbuttrt47143 жыл бұрын

  • I heard Nikolas bourbaki and immediately my brain went to twenty one pilots

    @pahulpreetsingh141@pahulpreetsingh1413 жыл бұрын

    • He'll always try to stop me, that Nicolas Bourbaki

      @ryanthegreat6768@ryanthegreat67683 жыл бұрын

    • Me too 😭😭

      @Stickerznstitchez@Stickerznstitchez3 жыл бұрын

    • YAAAS I LOVE TRENCH

      @mordecaithesage25@mordecaithesage253 жыл бұрын

  • This takes twenty one pilot song to a whole new level

    @evagraciela225@evagraciela2253 жыл бұрын

    • Which song is that?

      @nebulouscalamity6338@nebulouscalamity63382 жыл бұрын

    • @@nebulouscalamity6338 Nico and the Niners

      @evagraciela225@evagraciela2252 жыл бұрын

    • @@evagraciela225 Thanks for the surprising prompt reply! I guess Nico and the Niners are all the same here. They're the ones controlling all of math, eh?

      @nebulouscalamity6338@nebulouscalamity63382 жыл бұрын

  • I changed my comment so the replies don't make any sense

    @AM_-wg1hj@AM_-wg1hj3 жыл бұрын

    • *But I feel bad for everyone who lost their lives on world war 1*

      @harshita.07@harshita.073 жыл бұрын

    • And the horses

      @youisstupid2586@youisstupid25863 жыл бұрын

    • bro its a relief otherwise the syllabus would have been more thicker

      @jinujustin9271@jinujustin92713 жыл бұрын

    • The scientists, the artists and all others. War is just a waste of good people.

      @Aphelia.@Aphelia.3 жыл бұрын

    • @@Aphelia. ikr

      @esmeray9704@esmeray97043 жыл бұрын

  • These stories would make maths so interesting imo. why they don't tell this at school.🤷‍♂️ Thanks Ted ed

    @Dr_Steve.N@Dr_Steve.N3 жыл бұрын

    • it doesnt help u understand the mathematics of it all

      @ChrisM-qo1jc@ChrisM-qo1jc3 жыл бұрын

    • @@ChrisM-qo1jc It would make you want to understand it more though, and wanting to understand makes understanding a lot easier

      @ariaasterial9295@ariaasterial92953 жыл бұрын

    • @@ariaasterial9295 10/10 Make it a quote now.

      @dimitris5866@dimitris58663 жыл бұрын

    • @@ariaasterial9295 yup

      @Dr_Steve.N@Dr_Steve.N3 жыл бұрын

    • Ikr. just imagine how many people would be interested in math just because of the prank story.

      @user-ht7pl6go1v@user-ht7pl6go1v3 жыл бұрын

  • I really appreciate this.

    @napoleontan2841@napoleontan28412 жыл бұрын

  • Thanks for telling such an informative video😀

    @ashrafbutt9418@ashrafbutt94183 жыл бұрын

  • Man: No, Nicolas Bourbaki doesn’t exist. French Mathematicians: Ight bet.

    @Alkalus@Alkalus3 жыл бұрын

  • " the highest form of pure thought is in mathematics" - Plato

    @irene9332@irene93323 жыл бұрын

    • Is it tho? Explain for example!

      @Gadget-Walkmen@Gadget-Walkmen3 жыл бұрын

    • LudicrousKid those were Plato’s words, not his.

      @deadangel03@deadangel033 жыл бұрын

    • Smoke weed everyday -Elon Musk

      @manjityadav6845@manjityadav68453 жыл бұрын

    • @@manjityadav6845 I'm crying

      @iredred4378@iredred43783 жыл бұрын

    • @@Gadget-Walkmen there is nothing more pure than math. I cant prove that now but its true. Btw the thing we are learning in schools is not math. Believe me.

      @behzat8489@behzat84893 жыл бұрын

  • Interesting and worthwhile video.

    @robertschlesinger1342@robertschlesinger13422 жыл бұрын

  • I found This on Wikipedia- The group's namesake derives from the 19th century French general Charles-Denis Bourbaki,[3] who had a career of successful military campaigns before suffering a dramatic loss in the Franco-Prussian War. The name was therefore familiar to early 20th century French students. Weil remembered an ENS student prank in which an upperclassman posed as a professor and presented a "theorem of Bourbaki"; the name was later adopted. (Andre wiel was one of it's founders)

    @adventureawaits3860@adventureawaits38603 жыл бұрын

  • I really like the fact that the guy working on commutative groups and the guy working on Z-modules couldn’t understand each other despite these two objects being the same. If that was an intentional touch, Kudos!

    @francotomatillo@francotomatillo3 жыл бұрын

  • "Genius is the recovery of childhood at will." --Arthur Rimbaud

    @QuestionEverythingButWHY@QuestionEverythingButWHY3 жыл бұрын

    • Be gone, bot

      @michaeljohnson905@michaeljohnson9053 жыл бұрын

  • This is one of the most interesting stories i have heard

    @cypher1133@cypher11334 ай бұрын

  • This is one of my favorite Teds.

    @WillSelman@WillSelman2 жыл бұрын

  • Saw the title and instantly knew who this was about. ...He'll always try to stop me, that Nicholas Bourbaki...

    @denhro@denhro3 жыл бұрын

    • He's got no friends close but those who know him most know he goes by Nico

      @ananyask503@ananyask5033 жыл бұрын

    • @@ananyask503 he told me i'm a copy when i'd hear him mock me that almost stopped me

      @mordecaithesage25@mordecaithesage253 жыл бұрын

  • 0:48 Me & my friend in Math.

    @MatthewSmith-wx9wy@MatthewSmith-wx9wy3 жыл бұрын

    • "..the lack of a shared mathematical language." 😂

      @mel594@mel5943 жыл бұрын

    • 😂😂😂😂

      @paradox5468@paradox54683 жыл бұрын

  • So much of this went over my head, but I do like the humour of the group!

    @alannash2778@alannash27783 жыл бұрын

  • Why dont they tell us this in school? we just assume things have always been organized but really people worked super hard to being math together

    @phillipskids3686@phillipskids36863 жыл бұрын

    • Do you seriously think math was created, organized and developed without effort? Hundreds of generations were needed to even conceptualize the field of mathematics... School assumes you assume that everything took lots of work to be done.

      @Jay-nh6um@Jay-nh6um3 жыл бұрын

    • Because these were scholars studying advanced mathematics, why would school waste any time telling you their story when they need to teach kids basic maths lmao

      @giobronskij8249@giobronskij82493 жыл бұрын

  • I can't believe what I'm studying now came from a prank lmao

    @razlem@razlem3 жыл бұрын

  • Oh, wow. That's an inspiring story. The world owes a lot to the Bourbaki group.

    @Inkan1969@Inkan19692 жыл бұрын

  • amazing information

    @amit_1@amit_12 жыл бұрын

  • Moral of the story: If you don't like a book, write one on your own(and yes,pretend to be a Russian guy-that's important)

    @mellow-yellow918@mellow-yellow9183 жыл бұрын

  • imaginary numbers exist in mathematics so as imaginary mathematicians in our society

    @sayanchoudhury3190@sayanchoudhury31903 жыл бұрын

    • It’s seems very apropiate when you put it that way 🤔

      @amellirizarry9503@amellirizarry95033 жыл бұрын

    • Apt

      @Aditi-eq1um@Aditi-eq1um3 жыл бұрын

  • Incredible!

    @ConnoisseurOfExistence@ConnoisseurOfExistence3 жыл бұрын

  • It's nice when people who are capable, follow through.

    @TheOfficialZombieWhisperer@TheOfficialZombieWhisperer3 жыл бұрын

  • Always on point with the gorgeous animation

    @asurajsharma@asurajsharma3 жыл бұрын

  • Great animation as always!

    @danpat8135@danpat81353 жыл бұрын

  • Wow thanks for insights

    @reymartbara2206@reymartbara22063 жыл бұрын

  • I am a Undergraduate student and this video gave me goosebumps 🔥

    @troller7779@troller77793 жыл бұрын

  • The story of man who never was in a world who never knew him creating a legacy many couldn't reach. What a great legend

    @camiloiribarren1450@camiloiribarren14503 жыл бұрын

  • As soon as I saw that title I knew “who” this was gonna be about. Great work as always!

    @supermarioplayersmp@supermarioplayersmp3 жыл бұрын

  • Wow, thanks for this one:)

    @paulgraf6963@paulgraf69633 жыл бұрын

  • One of the greatest stories ever told

    @johnnyr7289@johnnyr72892 жыл бұрын

  • So this is the Nicolas Bourbaki that Tyler Joseph of twenty øne piløts is talking about in the song Nico and the Niners.🤔

    @soobinickyoung@soobinickyoung3 жыл бұрын

    • Yes that's the point, Nicos studies are a good metaphor for the story of trench(Plus he literally invented TOPology)

      @jangronowski8180@jangronowski81803 жыл бұрын

  • Great videos from Ted-ED during the pandemic. Thank you! ❤️

    @nutritiondaily2022@nutritiondaily20223 жыл бұрын

  • I love this channel always new facts about physics, math and science. Thanks for uploading these videos, 😊😊😊❤❤❤

    @devroopsaha4020@devroopsaha40203 жыл бұрын

  • 우리가 지금 배우고 있는 수학이 정립된 지 불과 몇십 년 밖에 지나지 않았다는 사실이 좀 놀랍네요. 확실히 수학 용어를 통일시킨 작업은 수학자들이 서로의 분야를 이해하고 융합하는 데 도움을 많이 주었을 것 같습니다. 유익한 영상 감사합니다!

    @ChanwooPark-me1wc@ChanwooPark-me1wc Жыл бұрын

  • flying from a fire, from nico and the niners

    @SS-yl5wo@SS-yl5wo3 жыл бұрын

    • Can you explain, please?

      @Pepel_sna@Pepel_sna3 жыл бұрын

    • @@Pepel_sna 'east is up I'm fearless when I hear this on the low' are you telling me you never heard this famous phrase ?

      @trap-pd2mv@trap-pd2mv3 жыл бұрын

    • always trying to stop me that nicholas bourbaki

      @jolie1412@jolie14123 жыл бұрын

    • @@jolie1412 omg! Now I finnaly understood the line.....thanks😀

      @krolipfozhe1417@krolipfozhe14173 жыл бұрын

    • EAST IS UP! I'm fearless when I hear this on the low, EAST IS UP! I'm careless when I wear my rebel clothes, EAST IS UP! when bishops come together they will know that: Dema don't control us!

      @gracelewis4016@gracelewis40163 жыл бұрын

  • I can think about nothing but Twenty-one Pilots just after hearing the name Nicolas Bourbaki.

    @captive-audience@captive-audience3 жыл бұрын

    • Why?

      @PedroHenrique-vt1nz@PedroHenrique-vt1nz3 жыл бұрын

    • @@PedroHenrique-vt1nz bump

      @huzi37709@huzi377093 жыл бұрын

    • @@PedroHenrique-vt1nz because they reference Nico as a fictional representation of negativity in their recent album named "Trench"

      @aishwaryaiyer117@aishwaryaiyer1173 жыл бұрын

    • YEAH

      @zx4706@zx47063 жыл бұрын

    • He's got no friends close but those who know him most know: he goes by nico

      @gracelewis4016@gracelewis40163 жыл бұрын

  • What a smooth video to talk about it ! Love it ! I would also add this : Nicolas Bourbaki still exists today. In fact, the group is welcoming new mathematicians who shall leave it when they are 50, because after this age we become idiots. The identities of current members are mostly kept secret...

    @lesbloches1142@lesbloches11422 жыл бұрын

  • dude this is amazing

    @caskie7465@caskie74652 жыл бұрын

  • They did it for the lolz. What madmen, I love them.

    @fazzadon8944@fazzadon89443 жыл бұрын

  • I feel so bad for those mathematicians who lost their lives in world war 1, war is a terrible thing😢😞

    @4felix8@4felix83 жыл бұрын

    • 2020 says bang bang pew pew

      @thalassaer4137@thalassaer41373 жыл бұрын

    • 😒🤫

      @sevastopol1845@sevastopol18452 жыл бұрын

    • @@thalassaer4137 more like touch touch dead dead

      @greenmustard493@greenmustard4932 жыл бұрын

  • Great job on filling the blanks with actual commonly used properties, makes it all the more believable

    @anathael6626@anathael66263 жыл бұрын

  • Amazing combination presenting the best of humans: Purpose, altruism, science and humor ❤️

    @alexanderpeca7080@alexanderpeca70803 жыл бұрын

  • This stories makes mathematics, really interesting and attractive. I love them!

    @oscard4801@oscard48013 жыл бұрын

  • the face when someone that never existed achieved way more than you ever will

    @salad5701@salad57013 жыл бұрын

    • fact* Also, you're speaking for yourself here. No one else

      @johndalton8839@johndalton88392 жыл бұрын

  • and I thought Nicolas Bourbaki was just a random name in the TwentyOne Pilots' "Morph"

    @angelanoelle8111@angelanoelle81113 жыл бұрын

  • I love how the phrase at the start was written by no other than Nicolas Bourbaki

    @agoogleuser3853@agoogleuser38532 жыл бұрын

  • He'll always try to stop me, that Nicholas Bourbaki He's got no friends close but those who know him most know He goes by Nico, he told me I'm a copy When I'd hear him mock me that's almost stopped me Well we're surrounded and we're hounded There's no above or a secret door What are we here for? If not to run straight through all our tormentors? But until that time I'll try and sing this

    @tigerlewis7370@tigerlewis73703 жыл бұрын

    • If I keep moving, they won't know

      @angler3897@angler3897 Жыл бұрын

    • I’ll morph to someone else

      @j-drummer9132@j-drummer91323 ай бұрын

  • He'll always try to stop me, that Nicholas Bourbaki He's got no friends close but those who know him most know He goes by Nico, he told me I'm a copy When I'd hear him mock me that's almost stopped me

    @z.a.23@z.a.233 жыл бұрын

    • Is this from a movie?

      @AdeyemiAlabi@AdeyemiAlabi3 жыл бұрын

    • @@AdeyemiAlabi a song. Morph by Twenty One Pilots.

      @bakinluvr3484@bakinluvr34843 жыл бұрын

    • ||-//

      @ananyask503@ananyask5033 жыл бұрын

    • Your pfp has it all

      @mordecaithesage25@mordecaithesage253 жыл бұрын

    • We're surrounded. And we're hounded.

      @SaiTheForgotten@SaiTheForgotten2 жыл бұрын

  • This is so interesting

    @cr8xtremeCaRnAgE@cr8xtremeCaRnAgE2 жыл бұрын

  • The part were you guys explained functions gave me war flashbacks.

    @wtv2128@wtv21283 жыл бұрын

  • In many fields when people become over ambitious, this is a solution they have. As for an imaginary personality you can build story and a total new life and the lifestyle. People who follow a person is not always for the work they do.. It's the person as whole... Many of the stories and personalities can be unreal.

    @Indian_phd@Indian_phd3 жыл бұрын
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