Riemann Hypothesis - Numberphile

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Featuring Professor Edward Frenkel. Here is the biggest (?) unsolved problem in maths... The Riemann Hypothesis.
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  • Riemann: Makes a statement without any proof. Is widely regards in the mathematics world. Me: Makes a statement without any proof. Gets 0 in exam.

    @adriannanad4675@adriannanad46754 жыл бұрын
    • This is outrageous, it's unfair!

      @R3lay0@R3lay04 жыл бұрын
    • I, too, make statements that all the brightest minds in the world over hundreds of years cannot prove or disprove during my exam.

      @emeria9620@emeria96204 жыл бұрын
    • Fermat did it......

      @guidichris@guidichris4 жыл бұрын
    • @@emeria9620 I guess you could make such statements tbh. You just need to know the topics where modern math is having a hard time solving. Any statement regarding the reimann zeta function, infinities, if a convergent sum is transcendental or not, tetration and beyond, what else? smth super abstract?

      @jongyon7192p@jongyon7192p4 жыл бұрын
    • Adrian Nanad 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂

      @JaySmith-rv4ro@JaySmith-rv4ro4 жыл бұрын
  • And the proof of the Riemann hypothesis is trivial and left to the reader as an exercise.

    @monkeseeaction21987@monkeseeaction219875 жыл бұрын
    • possibly it will appear 100 years later

      @zoedesvl4131@zoedesvl41315 жыл бұрын
    • Possibly i will do it

      @ravitaarya@ravitaarya4 жыл бұрын
    • @@ravitaarya 5 bucks says u won't.

      @ethanhuyck4704@ethanhuyck47044 жыл бұрын
    • @@ethanhuyck4704 I have a proof by elliptic functions, and modern algebra but that won't fit here. ;)

      @ravitaarya@ravitaarya4 жыл бұрын
    • 420BootyWizard I honestly wish I could believe you

      @manofmystery5191@manofmystery51914 жыл бұрын
  • This is easily the most readable handwriting of any mathematician in the history of mathematics

    @BTsNemesis@BTsNemesis4 жыл бұрын
    • Did you watch the same video I did? That ζ was nothing like how it should look like.

      @DeJay7@DeJay72 жыл бұрын
    • As a physics student I would like to enter our name into the ring. I think we might even be able to give doctors a run for their money.

      @pioneer_1148@pioneer_1148 Жыл бұрын
    • OKAY?!!

      @sfridisow185@sfridisow185 Жыл бұрын
    • @@pioneer_1148 you got nothing on advanced maths majors, even AI can't read their handwriting...

      @niks660097@niks66009711 ай бұрын
    • ​@@pioneer_1148as a fellow physics student, I agree

      @falsetone5983@falsetone59837 ай бұрын
  • not quite true - Grigori was willing to accept the 1,000,00.00$USD prize however on condition that the award was co-awarded to another mathematician Richard S Hamilton the pioneer of the Ricci Flow whom Perelman credited with providing the basis for his own work - the committee declined to do this and instead simply withdrew the prize money denying both Perelman and his fellow mathematician Hamilton - I quote "Perelman refused to accept the Millennium prize in July 2010. He considered the decision of the Clay Institute unfair for not sharing the prize with Richard S. Hamilton and stated that "the main reason is my disagreement with the organised mathematical community. I don't like their decisions, I consider them unjust."

    @9090Glenn@9090Glenn4 жыл бұрын
    • Thank you

      @1996Pinocchio@1996Pinocchio4 жыл бұрын
    • Didn't know that, thanks for the clarification of this story

      @speedsterh@speedsterh4 жыл бұрын
    • why wouldnt he just accept it then send half of it to Hamilton?

      @zsolttildy5742@zsolttildy57424 жыл бұрын
    • £~ _ €.

      @oleggladkikh951@oleggladkikh9514 жыл бұрын
    • zsolt tildy Because that will be seen as a charity rather than a prize that he deserves.

      @unuuu5541@unuuu55414 жыл бұрын
  • Not sure why but his Russian accent makes me understand math better. My all time favorite Numberphile video.

    @elirane85@elirane857 жыл бұрын
    • eliran zach because you feel the vodka just by listening

      @JorgetePanete@JorgetePanete6 жыл бұрын
    • I understood that he's Russian just when heard him. Russians know who's Russian and who's not.

      @JTCF@JTCF5 жыл бұрын
    • It's actually a German accent

      @senatorpoopypants7182@senatorpoopypants71825 жыл бұрын
    • no

      @bluerinako@bluerinako5 жыл бұрын
    • Me hear russian accent too. It's interesting because the man who named edward frenkel cannot be russian.

      @xavemsk88@xavemsk885 жыл бұрын
  • His way of explaining things is really amazing. He simplifies the things very nicely.

    @PRT976@PRT9765 жыл бұрын
    • mathematician's brain at work

      @hellotheremyolfriend@hellotheremyolfriend4 жыл бұрын
    • "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" - Albert Einstein

      @prakash_77@prakash_774 жыл бұрын
    • Simply explaining the very complicated is the mark of genius

      @kostoffj@kostoffj4 жыл бұрын
    • Ok

      @ishworshrestha3559@ishworshrestha35594 жыл бұрын
    • Quanta Magazine have a wonderful video about Riemann Hypothesis. Frankly, I think it's an uncrackable problem, tbh. Physicists assume it's true and there are dozens of well established theories that are build upon it being true. It's fascinating, nonetheless.

      @caparroz1923@caparroz19233 жыл бұрын
  • "you can mark your favourite fractions" said like a true mathematician lol

    @talhatariqyuluqatdis@talhatariqyuluqatdis3 жыл бұрын
  • This has been the simplest explanation of complex numbers, ever.

    @TheGermanLPGaming@TheGermanLPGaming4 жыл бұрын
    • Really? I've been introduced to complex numbers in probably like 10 different classes at this point and it's always in a similar fashion to this. Saying that we simply cannot say sqrt of -1 doesn't exist so we assign it an imaginary value which then creates a complex plane.

      @TheVivi13@TheVivi134 жыл бұрын
    • @@TheVivi13 however, the main reason it's a cartesian plane (i.e., one with both basis "vectors" being orthogonal) is due to a slightly deeper property about i.

      @NateROCKS112@NateROCKS1122 жыл бұрын
    • I have heard this explanation of complex numbers many times, but they often fail to explain the benefits of not discarding the i. That keeping the i in there opens up a whole new world of possible transformations and calculations. Continuing math beyond its borders. Like Rieman was extending the zeta function beyond its borders.

      @ypey1@ypey12 жыл бұрын
    • @@ypey1 for most stuff, it's just a utility thing. You _could_ try to represent everything as a 2D vector, but complex numbers can be treated exactly like real numbers in most cases, so they're easier to work with, e.g., with exponentiation. For example, you could also represent negative numbers as a subtraction problem (and indeed there's a construction that does this), with a tuple of, e.g., (1, 3), but it's so much easier to just call -2 a number. Edit: The comparison isn't exactly the same, since vectors and complex numbers have different algebraic properties (whereas the tuple construction is a construction of the model of, say, integer arithmetic, so it has the same structure).

      @NateROCKS112@NateROCKS1122 жыл бұрын
    • Ok

      @ishworshrestha3559@ishworshrestha35592 жыл бұрын
  • 8:54 "да... uh, yes" I love this Russian guy.

    @alexhoffmann9648@alexhoffmann96487 жыл бұрын
    • Alex Hoffmann no comments? here have a comment

      @maximusdizon7267@maximusdizon72676 жыл бұрын
    • Have another comment!

      @abrahamholleran4162@abrahamholleran41626 жыл бұрын
    • 10 months later, I think you deserve another comment.

      @narcotic702@narcotic7026 жыл бұрын
    • 3 weeks later you're rewarded another comment

      @oscityperplexity2312@oscityperplexity23126 жыл бұрын
    • Here's your comment for the week.

      @abdoufma@abdoufma6 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you, Jaime Lannister.

    @cryptexify@cryptexify7 жыл бұрын
    • first thing came to my mind

      @sumitno10@sumitno107 жыл бұрын
    • HAHAHA that's the first thing i think

      @mariomuysensual@mariomuysensual7 жыл бұрын
    • looooooooll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      @ginolalthazuala8880@ginolalthazuala88807 жыл бұрын
    • More like Gendry

      @Belgdor@Belgdor7 жыл бұрын
    • He has some resemblance, but in any case, Russian Jaime Lannister

      @saultube44@saultube446 жыл бұрын
  • 8:55 I love how he answered "Da" in response to Brady's question and then corrected it to yes 😆

    @revenevan11@revenevan112 жыл бұрын
  • When Jamie Lannister becomes a mathematician

    @TheOfficialSkriIIlex@TheOfficialSkriIIlex4 жыл бұрын
    • Peter Griffin and Amy Adams?

      @paradoarify@paradoarify4 жыл бұрын
    • I thought the same lols 😂

      @justamanofculture12@justamanofculture124 жыл бұрын
    • guy pearce

      @geraltofrivia2570@geraltofrivia25704 жыл бұрын
    • Bruuhh...

      @achenyanthan5431@achenyanthan54314 жыл бұрын
    • Ok

      @ishworshrestha3559@ishworshrestha35594 жыл бұрын
  • This should be a series. Like I would love to see a video on all the Millennium Problems. Especially the one that was solved.

    @vinaloi41@vinaloi4110 жыл бұрын
    • Cold Ham on Rye an infinite series

      @Takin2000@Takin20006 жыл бұрын
    • You might’ve already seen it, but in case you haven’t, they’ve made a video about the poincare conjecture, which is the one that was solved. I’d also like to see videos about the other millenium problems.

      @lucashoffses9019@lucashoffses90196 жыл бұрын
    • The one of the solved one (Poincaré Conjecture) has already been uploaded. Check it out :)

      @tonatiuhcortes9968@tonatiuhcortes99686 жыл бұрын
    • Yes dey have made videos about 3 of Dem..p-np problem,reimann hypothesis and poincare conjecture. dey need to need make videos about remaining 4..I find especially hard to understand yang-mills problem

      @MrTechnikaal@MrTechnikaal5 жыл бұрын
    • They also made one on Navier-Stokes

      @TheAlps36@TheAlps363 жыл бұрын
  • This guy is an awesome teacher.

    @ILykToDoDuhDrifting@ILykToDoDuhDrifting8 жыл бұрын
    • am I the only one who thinks all math teachers should have that accent

      @francorende4305@francorende43058 жыл бұрын
    • Ah if only people like him would become teachers~ (and not just snobs who gain pleasure from making lives of kids around town worse)

      @rewrose2838@rewrose28386 жыл бұрын
    • for real! never had something so clearly explained

      @RB-kr6jo@RB-kr6jo5 жыл бұрын
    • ILykToDoDuhDrifting I swear. If anyone solves this problem, it will be one of his students!

      @Superman37891@Superman378915 жыл бұрын
  • I love how Grady, who obviously really enjoys mathematics, can phrase a question to the guest like he's never seen an integral or a derivative in his life.

    @MrZombieexpert27@MrZombieexpert274 жыл бұрын
  • Fun fact: quantum computing algorithms have successfully managed to find prime numbers using a method that is only effective if the Riemann Hypothesis is correct. Of course, that's empirical evidence, not a mathematical proof, but maybe that just makes it even more interesting!

    @itisinfactpaul2868@itisinfactpaul28683 жыл бұрын
    • Riemann Hipothesis’ could well be one of the unprovable statements foreseen by Gödel’s incompleteness theorem - a true statement which cannot be proved within the given set of axioms!

      @rociot4690@rociot46903 жыл бұрын
    • Is Math becoming empirical?

      @arielfuxman8868@arielfuxman88683 жыл бұрын
    • Man in the world of Quantum Mechanics everything is possible. I wouldn't be surprised that in quantum mechanics may suggested that the universe is both finite and infinite at the same time.

      @michaelnguyen8121@michaelnguyen81213 жыл бұрын
    • @@rociot4690 even if it was unprovable, you can still prove something is false only if it's false. So you would just have to show that you can't prove the hypothesis as false. As far as I'm aware anyway

      @MaD0915@MaD09153 жыл бұрын
    • A Solution for the RIEMANN ZETA FUNCTION is extremely valuable because It also point to Solutions for enhancing the HAMILTON GEOMETRZATION Poincare conjecture, Hodge Invariance conjecture as it relates to PRIME NUMBERS and Doing Arithmetic past ZERO or Singularity as it is called in Analytic Geometry , and Algebraic Geometry, and it Directly points to the Prime factorization Algorithm , the Division algorithm, and the QUADRIATIC FORMULA This Solves many DIMENSIONS and RANK IN THE COMPLEX FUNCTION PLANE for MANIFOLD like The Kahler MANIFOLD ,CALIBU YAU MANIFOLD simeoustanesly and Points to Soulutions to the entire Millennium Prize Problems proposed by The Early 20th Century Philospher and Mathematician David HILBERT , Including the YANG-MILL Mass GAP , and the NP COMPUTATION time space COMPLEXITY problem also know as the Traveling Salesman problem

      @evalsoftserver@evalsoftserver3 жыл бұрын
  • I love how passionate the speakers are in Numberphile videos.

    @derekpezzella7182@derekpezzella71828 жыл бұрын
    • Makes sense. Most of these guys will only ever communicate to a maximum of maybe to 500 people in a lecture at one time? They're getting an not so common opportunity interacting with a huge amount of people interested in the subject (numberphile fans subscribers)

      @Safwan.Hossain@Safwan.Hossain5 жыл бұрын
    • Passion is sexy.

      @sineporfa9053@sineporfa90535 жыл бұрын
  • I have no idea whats going on, but i feel smart just watching

    @CHARrrrrrrrr@CHARrrrrrrrr8 жыл бұрын
    • +CHARrrrrrrrr Welcome to math

      @smittywerbenjagermanjensen7027@smittywerbenjagermanjensen70278 жыл бұрын
    • +CHARrrrrrrrr what does it mean if I do understand it then??

      @ErojFeeding@ErojFeeding8 жыл бұрын
    • ***** Welcome to math class

      @smittywerbenjagermanjensen7027@smittywerbenjagermanjensen70278 жыл бұрын
    • +Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen This is much better than math class. Math class teaches the fundamentals whereas KZhead teaches the abstract and complicated topics.

      @joeq6683@joeq66837 жыл бұрын
    • I would give you a like for that comment but I don't want to encourage that way of being cool :)

      @sirdondaniel@sirdondaniel7 жыл бұрын
  • I studied engineering, but listening to this magician talk about Maths really makes me feel like I should have gone into Maths. It's always such a pleasure to have a teacher or lecturer be patient about the work they're teaching. It inspires students far more than anything else.

    @brandonfreese3005@brandonfreese30052 жыл бұрын
  • "And at 1, that value will be, you guessed it, minus 1/12." The rest of the world:

    @benbrown3786@benbrown37863 жыл бұрын
    • S. Ramanujan blesses you from heaven

      @aadiupraity3556@aadiupraity35563 жыл бұрын
    • It's -1, not positive 1. Zeta(1) doesn't exist.

      @NateROCKS112@NateROCKS1122 жыл бұрын
    • @@NateROCKS112 doesn't zeta(1) diverge?

      @skyiloh7460@skyiloh74602 жыл бұрын
    • @@skyiloh7460 that's just a specific way to say it doesn't exist. Edit: But to answer your question, yes, because Zeta(1) is just the harmonic series.

      @NateROCKS112@NateROCKS1122 жыл бұрын
    • @@NateROCKS112 exactly!

      @skyiloh7460@skyiloh74602 жыл бұрын
  • my daily job is to sell fruits and vegetables, I was pretty bad at school in mathematics, and i'm here watching hours of mathemematical videos and i enjoy them so such because I can actually follow up. Thank you numberphile, deeply.

    @TheGamblermusic@TheGamblermusic8 жыл бұрын
    • Gl my dude

      @morganirosonna2871@morganirosonna28715 жыл бұрын
    • This comment is so wholesome. Keep on learning

      @ThatModestCow@ThatModestCow5 жыл бұрын
    • Wait, so you know what is an analytic function, the use of complex plane, and de moivre theorem?

      @howardlam6181@howardlam61815 жыл бұрын
    • @@howardlam6181 lol I'm guessing he knows about logarithmic branch cuts too

      @Legend_Hunter_Original@Legend_Hunter_Original5 жыл бұрын
    • Keep on learning!

      @FisicoNuclearCuantico@FisicoNuclearCuantico4 жыл бұрын
  • I watched Professor Frenkel in this video quite a while ago, and now he is my professor. Things work out wonderfully sometimes.

    @ace.of.space.@ace.of.space.7 жыл бұрын
    • craftysunshine I wish he was my professor to, but I was rejected from Berkeley. Might apply for grad school though, I’d honestly go there just to talk to this guy in Russian, потому что я тоже русский

      @themightybrick2264@themightybrick22645 жыл бұрын
    • Damn

      @talhatariqyuluqatdis@talhatariqyuluqatdis4 жыл бұрын
  • I could listen to this man talk about math forever. He makes the incredibly complex easy to understand for the laymen.

    @jschnabes13@jschnabes133 жыл бұрын
  • Me: I understood what has been said in this video My brain: it is a trap,it is a trap ,it is a trap.

    @wearenoless6732@wearenoless67324 жыл бұрын
    • we are no less I swear I'd watch a video and understand it, then read my textbook and I have no idea what is going on

      @workout9594@workout95944 жыл бұрын
    • @@workout9594 and in my case I then then read the textbook and eventually feel like I understand it, but repeat this pattern when I first read the exam. The problem is that I can't exactly afford to repeat that until I understand though lol

      @revenevan11@revenevan114 жыл бұрын
    • When you think you understand it, that is evidence that you don't understand it.

      @Jivvi@Jivvi4 жыл бұрын
  • I have a truly marvelous proof for the Riemann hypothesis that this comment section is to small to contain.

    @MrJaco324@MrJaco3248 жыл бұрын
    • That's terrible. Get out.

      @wierdalien1@wierdalien18 жыл бұрын
    • +MrJaco324 I have a marvelous proof for ALL the Millennium problems, which unfortunately my brain is too small to contain.

      @MichaelGoldenberg@MichaelGoldenberg8 жыл бұрын
    • +MrJaco324 Fermat, is that you? :)

      @anarcho.pacifist@anarcho.pacifist8 жыл бұрын
    • +Daniel Șuteu Didn't Fermat create more problems than he solved? :P

      @gfetco@gfetco8 жыл бұрын
    • +MrJaco324 Fermat? haha

      @saintcelab3451@saintcelab34518 жыл бұрын
  • "There is more to this than meets the i."

    @woodsmith_1@woodsmith_17 жыл бұрын
  • This is the best introduction to complex numbers I have seen.

    @azhar07464@azhar074644 жыл бұрын
    • Actually a far better way is to think 'which representation, when squared, leads to -1. let's call it √-1. -1 is, also, a 1 oriented to 180°. if you multiply 1 by -1, it rotates it 180°. if you multiply 1 by √-1, it will rotate 90°. multiply again, it will rotate 180°. ' this has broad use, for instance, in electrical circuits and electrical engineering. moreover, one can easily see the relation with sines and cosines, Euler formula etc.

      @brunesi@brunesi2 жыл бұрын
  • How wonderfully enjoyable to listen to a master speak about a field he is both brilliant in and passionate about.

    @samsteel4456@samsteel44565 жыл бұрын
  • "In this care there's more to it than meets the 'i"" Specifically 1/2 more than that part that meets the i.

    @ckmishn3664@ckmishn36647 жыл бұрын
    • ghlok

      @thomaszoyzoy1811@thomaszoyzoy18114 жыл бұрын
    • Time for pie, apple pie that is.

      @gregk.6723@gregk.67234 жыл бұрын
  • New Vsauce video, new Numberphile video... These are glorious days, I tell you.

    @JcGross93@JcGross9310 жыл бұрын
    • Waiting for CGPGrey now.

      @TheBhuvan002@TheBhuvan00210 жыл бұрын
  • Never learnt anything well from any of my past math teachers, first time I hear about most of the concepts in this video and this guy has made them crystal clear to me.

    @BanditFoxx@BanditFoxx3 жыл бұрын
  • I love math, and respect to Prof Edward Frenkel for explaining Reimann zeta function, and conveying that mathematicians should be open to unconventionality to seek new answers.

    @kumardigvijaymishra5945@kumardigvijaymishra59454 жыл бұрын
    • yup. agreed...

      @jimbo6238@jimbo62382 жыл бұрын
  • The best explanation yet to a very complex problem. This man is an exemplary teacher.

    @hermannballesterosv@hermannballesterosv8 жыл бұрын
  • It;s the brown paper isn't it, you need the brown paper

    @YnseSchaap@YnseSchaap7 жыл бұрын
    • Ynse Schaap and a sharpie

      @eldiablo7455@eldiablo74555 жыл бұрын
    • And a dollar 40 cents annoying pen from Tesco

      @user-js8ut1bx4c@user-js8ut1bx4c5 жыл бұрын
    • Ynse Schaap never seen ‘it’s’ spelled with a semicolon

      @eugenesagan212@eugenesagan2125 жыл бұрын
    • i love the videos but the marker on the brown paper is so cringy.

      @peterparker-or2os@peterparker-or2os4 жыл бұрын
    • @@peterparker-or2os wat?

      @lolgamez9171@lolgamez91714 жыл бұрын
  • I am gonna prove it. Believe me I am just 15 now, by the age of 30, I would prove it. It’s my contribution to the world’s best subject.

    @athuldevraj3948@athuldevraj39483 жыл бұрын
    • All the best for that big guy

      @jellyj1696@jellyj16963 жыл бұрын
    • @@jellyj1696 thank you sir. All the best for your future ventures too

      @athuldevraj3948@athuldevraj39483 жыл бұрын
    • @@athuldevraj3948 thankyou. Well how's your progress

      @jellyj1696@jellyj16962 жыл бұрын
    • @@athuldevraj3948 Perhaps look at what Terrance Tao said about becoming obsessed with a big problem first. You must have a solid understanding of everything else and a varied toolkit. These haven't been solved for a reason. They require entirely new math which needs to be made from scratch. All the best luck.

      @willywonka1962@willywonka19622 жыл бұрын
    • @@willywonka1962 sure sir! Thank you for the support and advice

      @athuldevraj3948@athuldevraj39482 жыл бұрын
  • 8:24 Nice

    @facusoi@facusoi4 жыл бұрын
    • Nice

      @user-qz5dh1sw7b@user-qz5dh1sw7b6 ай бұрын
  • "We can ban root of minus 1" "This is a bad point" I laughed too hard 😂

    @donabhyuday@donabhyuday7 жыл бұрын
    • Me too

      @JeremySchwartz2027@JeremySchwartz20274 жыл бұрын
  • "Then you can mark your favorite fractions" on the line. After all, who doesn't have a favorite fraction or two? :-)

    @Number-cz1rd@Number-cz1rd9 жыл бұрын
    • I have one half favorite fraction

      @1996Pinocchio@1996Pinocchio4 жыл бұрын
  • There's nothing more satisfying than watching a mathematician enjoy his craft.

    @clutcherhierts@clutcherhierts4 жыл бұрын
  • When Edward used analytical continuation and out popped -1/12 where infinity was supposed to be, it felt like magic. I remember watching Numberphile’s -1/12 video and thinking that Ramanujan’s proof was not meaningful. This was super beautiful and Edward made the explanation entertaining!

    @projectRA4@projectRA4 Жыл бұрын
    • I didnt' get how zeta(-1)=infinity at the start of the video, and became zeta(-1)=-1/12 at the end.

      @davip116@davip1168 ай бұрын
    • @@davip116 There are two ways to right the riemann formula. Either by saying (1/n) + (1/n^2) + ... OR by plugging it into a sigma sum. The sigma sum is what gives -1/12, while just writing the infinite sequence does not.

      @projectRA4@projectRA48 ай бұрын
  • This guy is a great teacher. I wish he had have been my maths teacher, he distills the basics down so a maths dope like me can understand it perfectly :-)

    @kwas101@kwas10110 жыл бұрын
  • This is my favorite Numberphile video. And it does NOT back up the false assertions made in the "-1/12" videos. (Which are my least favourite of all Numberphile videos.)

    @richo61@richo619 жыл бұрын
    • richo61 have you ranked them all?

      @numberphile@numberphile9 жыл бұрын
    • Im an engineer so I am no expert on theoretical mathematic. I understand it blows up but why does the process they used to end up with -1/12 incorrect. substitution is a valid procedure in math

      @elingeniero2000@elingeniero20009 жыл бұрын
    • Numberphile "have you ranked them all?" Not yet! Of the ones I have so far viewed, this is my favorite. 8-)

      @richo61@richo619 жыл бұрын
    • Goyathlay Amedeo thank you makes sense

      @elingeniero2000@elingeniero20009 жыл бұрын
    • Yes but that is a direct contradiction. This video is based on the riemann zeta function which says that zeta(-1)=-1/12. They showed it to you via "floozy" math but it's a serious result in math. I don't claim to understand what it means, but it is what it is.

      @nileshjambhekar7699@nileshjambhekar76999 жыл бұрын
  • This is definitely the best Numberphile video. Mathematics is beautiful but the way in which maths is taught in classrooms around the world makes it boring and disinteresting. Thanks to videos like these , channels like Numberphile and applications like Mathematicia, Wolfram Alpha and Matlab, learning maths becomes exciting.

    @tigrantadevosyan731@tigrantadevosyan7312 жыл бұрын
  • I will solve the Riemann Hypothesis

    @YosmHere@YosmHere2 ай бұрын
    • Yo bro I want $1 from the million dollars

      @clusteringmiu@clusteringmiu7 күн бұрын
    • Belive in u

      @guy5979@guy59792 күн бұрын
    • In dreams

      @masudshafi9946@masudshafi9946Күн бұрын
  • this is my professor at berkeley next semester. Im am so friking ecstatic

    @ssimarsawhney@ssimarsawhney7 жыл бұрын
    • ssimarsawhney have you finished your education?)

      @user-go7sr1zf6d@user-go7sr1zf6d4 жыл бұрын
    • @@user-go7sr1zf6dAll the math broke his brain, he's long gone lol

      @jac1011@jac10114 жыл бұрын
  • This is the stuff I want to do for a living...I love wrapping my head around things like this, even if I make no progress on them. I've loved numbers for as long as I can remember. The way everything in math connects and intersects is beautiful to me. It's mind blowing to think that we, humans, some random species on some random hunk of rock in this absolutely massive universe, have developed a universal language to define everything we observe, everything we can't observe, and everything in between. I really hope I'm still around when some of these brain stumping math problems and equations are finally figured out. To see what advances could be made once we have some of the answers. It'd be even more interesting to know what the people that originally thought them up would have done with them if they had figured them out.

    @justinsiehl4666@justinsiehl466610 жыл бұрын
    • +Justin Siehl Well for now you have to deal with whips and nae nae's. Yes I do realise im 2 years to late.

      @vandibox@vandibox8 жыл бұрын
    • Justin Siehl we have developed a universal language or we discovered a universal language? Math isnt a human creation, according to some people. Its much more than that

      @Felipe_Ribeir0@Felipe_Ribeir06 жыл бұрын
  • This is the best guy on Numberphile. When others explain the RZ function, it seems to go over my head. When he explains it, it seems so simple that elementary school me could have grasped it.

    @nodnarbnaelc6819@nodnarbnaelc6819 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm not a math whiz, but I find the explanations of Prof. Frenkel to be clear and easy to follow. I imagine he is a rather popular teacher?

    @ejohnso1967@ejohnso1967 Жыл бұрын
  • That was the best explanation of imaginary numbers I ever heard.

    @Herrenhandtasche35@Herrenhandtasche359 жыл бұрын
  • I've come to learn that everything with Riemann's name on it is a massive headache inducer

    @AzureFlash@AzureFlash10 жыл бұрын
    • Not quite everything, Riemann Integral is pretty simple and straightforward, You cut an area into many rectangles and sum up their respective size. Everyone knows what rectangles are and how you can calculate their area, so it's really easy to visualise.

      @Louigi36@Louigi3610 жыл бұрын
    • I love Riemann. All the cool stuff in maths is named after him! :D

      @ZardoDhieldor@ZardoDhieldor10 жыл бұрын
    • 1 Million Riemann Dollar !

      @ThisNameIsBanned@ThisNameIsBanned10 жыл бұрын
    • How about a "Riemann" paracetamol pills? Will they also give you a headache?

      @NomadUrpagi@NomadUrpagi3 жыл бұрын
  • This bloke exudes intellect and charm. I can watch this clip repeatedly as I can the Graham's number clip and the Collatz conjecture one. These narrators of themes of such complexity are both humble and like flashlights illustrating a window into darkness for those of us grasping at these fascinating concepts. Special mention to Holly Krieger for being a fractal femme extraordinaire.

    @barmouthbridge8772@barmouthbridge8772 Жыл бұрын
  • Ten damn years later and this is still one of the best explanations I've ever seen of the Riemann zeta function and hypothesis.

    @JDSpartan2007@JDSpartan200711 күн бұрын
  • I love it the video says "keep watching" when our old friend from -1/12 videos appears

    @baixado4ever@baixado4ever6 жыл бұрын
  • This is probably the most coherent and enthusiastic explanation of a math mind-bender that I have ever seen. Talk about breathing life and importance into an otherwise dull concept! Well done sirs.

    @oggassaggaoggaffa@oggassaggaoggaffa5 жыл бұрын
  • the Riemann haircut looks like the integral symbol

    @ayoubab2120@ayoubab21204 жыл бұрын
    • hahahahahahhahahahaha.....

      @lux27.42@lux27.423 жыл бұрын
    • He walked the walk.

      @baronvonbeandip@baronvonbeandip2 жыл бұрын
    • 😂😂😂😂😂

      @olivervalmes170@olivervalmes1702 жыл бұрын
  • 7:19 that calculator of yours is faulty

    @derekwilson3301@derekwilson33014 жыл бұрын
    • yep; there was a typo; should have said pi^2/6 but instead said pi/6

      @xdavidliu@xdavidliu4 жыл бұрын
  • Him: "It's an answer you can find online." Me: "I am online man."

    @sudiXP@sudiXP5 жыл бұрын
  • I want to really thank Numberphile for teaching me about Riemann Hypothesis clearly because I had struggled very much to understand this problem since when i learnt about the Milllennium problems. Thank you so much for describing briefly about Riemann Hypothesis

    @sriram828@sriram8289 жыл бұрын
  • Incredible explanation. Pure gold. Videos like this keep me from uninstalling KZhead.

    @moamenabdelkawy5718@moamenabdelkawy57184 жыл бұрын
  • This was so well explained. Very well done. Great video! So insightful.

    @chrisrace744@chrisrace7444 жыл бұрын
  • Extremely interesting. I've heard of the Riemann Hypothesis but never knew what it was until now.

    @stevesybesma@stevesybesma5 жыл бұрын
  • What an easy explanation! I love his Russian accent.

    @sjg4388@sjg43888 жыл бұрын
    • Я тоже сразу заметил: русский человек.

      @TheLoveKusano@TheLoveKusano7 жыл бұрын
    • +či šo suka či šo Он даже один раз где-то "да" сказал, оговорился )

      @biomech7@biomech77 жыл бұрын
    • да да, вместо three три говорит :)

      @xamzx9281@xamzx92817 жыл бұрын
    • Rare seeing another korean around on an english video!

      @sori227@sori2277 жыл бұрын
    • 님 한국인임? 근데 이름이 왜 이렇게 독일스러움?

      @sjg4388@sjg43887 жыл бұрын
  • Love Edward Frenkel's accent. And I respect him even more than before, after listening to his episode on The Numberphile Podcast.

    @NoriMori1992@NoriMori19924 жыл бұрын
  • Thanks sir, for explaining so beautifully about zeta function. Simple and eloquent.

    @ashutoshkumarjha41@ashutoshkumarjha413 жыл бұрын
  • At 7:20 the video shows the calculator returning a value of pi/6 for when 2 is the input of the function, but it says earlier in the video that the value is pi squared over 6

    @DavidMoscoeUni@DavidMoscoeUni10 жыл бұрын
    • sorry

      @numberphile@numberphile10 жыл бұрын
    • pi^2 / 6 is correct. The special effects are cool, but take them with a grain of salt!

      @CRGreathouse@CRGreathouse10 жыл бұрын
    • Numberphile it's ok

      @VagrantWatcher213@VagrantWatcher2138 жыл бұрын
    • Description dude

      @strengthman600@strengthman6008 жыл бұрын
    • He wrote that 2 years ago, the description was updated after numberphile read the comment

      @BenWithington@BenWithington8 жыл бұрын
  • The answer is 42. Thank you, I'll take my million dollars now.

    @RogueDemonZ@RogueDemonZ10 жыл бұрын
    • lol

      @PaulReich321@PaulReich32110 жыл бұрын
    • That's not between 0 and 1 ;)

      @EddyProca@EddyProca10 жыл бұрын
    • Eddy Proca what about .42 then? :D

      @Gehenneration@Gehenneration10 жыл бұрын
    • after 1+2+3+4... being -1/12 I can belive 42 is between 0 and 1

      @TheForce@TheForce10 жыл бұрын
    • Error: Implicit convertion from integer to boolean failed!

      @ZardoDhieldor@ZardoDhieldor10 жыл бұрын
  • Dr Eswaran from India has proved it!

    @vaishnavikhare2879@vaishnavikhare28792 жыл бұрын
    • No

      @star_ms@star_ms2 жыл бұрын
  • I only just came across this video by recommendation thinking Im only gonna watch a few min to get the idea and move on. But I ended up watching the full video because the Theorem and the way professor explains it are so fascinating!

    @JJ-uj1wi@JJ-uj1wi5 ай бұрын
  • The real unsolved problem is if this guy will ever blink

    @Randy_McShandy@Randy_McShandy7 жыл бұрын
    • 4:17

      @Tukan435@Tukan4357 жыл бұрын
    • Not a blink actually, he simply roll his eyes downside creating the illusion of blinking. He never blinks until disproven.

      @lamzez94@lamzez947 жыл бұрын
    • 15:17

      @ricekka@ricekka7 жыл бұрын
    • Zolth fake news

      @Cool99MG@Cool99MG6 жыл бұрын
    • We don't blink in Russia. No blink, no smile. Only while testing nuclear weapons.

      @ivanlusenko4674@ivanlusenko46746 жыл бұрын
  • Could we possibly get a video explaining how the non-trivial zeros relate to prime number distribution?

    @cscooperau@cscooperau10 жыл бұрын
    • Get a master's degree in number theory

      @crazedvidmaker@crazedvidmaker10 жыл бұрын
    • Andrew Christensen Too busy doing PhD in telecom

      @cscooperau@cscooperau10 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah, this is kind of the elephant in the room after this video. I have no idea how the two are related and I´d really like to know. Maybe we´ll get an "Extra Stuff" of this video.

      @jeremyj.5687@jeremyj.568710 жыл бұрын
    • Jeremy J. I am aware of how the behaviour of the Riemann Zeta Function relates to Prime Numbers, because it is equivalent to an infinite product function of all Prime Numbers. Also, the Riemann Hypothesis is equivalent to another conjecture that states the error of the Prime Counting Function has a definite limit. However, I'm not sure how the non-trivial zeros are related to it.

      @cscooperau@cscooperau10 жыл бұрын
  • love how tidy and clear his annotations on the paper are. I can't understand my own writing after i write more than 3 letters.

    @sebastianz.773@sebastianz.7734 жыл бұрын
  • I wish I was smart enough to even attempt to solve something like this.

    @sufficientlyoldskool@sufficientlyoldskool7 жыл бұрын
    • Comments like these assure me that I'm not alone :P

      @abdurrazzak305@abdurrazzak3057 жыл бұрын
    • If you were that smart, you wouldn't care about money, so you wouldn't attempt it, or just for fun, just like this russian guy who refused the 1M $ prize on one of this problem . ;) no hate.

      @pooly666@pooly6667 жыл бұрын
    • ***** i never saw that, but come on ... that is too obvious. Even if your comment is pretty well placed.

      @pooly666@pooly6667 жыл бұрын
    • Oh Yeahh Really i domt think u can call "too obvious" he didnt mention anything about that, i mean could be but i dont know where did you get it from his comment

      @mitica7914@mitica79147 жыл бұрын
    • sufficientlyoldskool you are smart enough, it doesn't hurt to try.

      @justjulied@justjulied7 жыл бұрын
  • I loved the explanation of real, imaginary, and complex numbers in this video (~ 4:40-7:10). If it was taught to me this way in school I would have actually understood it!

    @Romenadan@Romenadan10 жыл бұрын
  • This guy is great, his presentation is amazingly easy to follow.

    @Gersberms@Gersberms7 ай бұрын
  • This video is such a treat to watch. I see it time and again.

    @Prasen1729@Prasen17293 жыл бұрын
  • Very interesting. I'm currently studying Complex Analysis right now. Since I found it so similar to Vector Calculus, I'm constantly going back to it to find the corresponding arithmetic operations between the two. I'm excited to find out that my current studies are approaching the Riemann Zeta function, and that it plays an important role in the distribution of prime numbers. Thank you for your video!

    @michaeldunlap111@michaeldunlap1117 жыл бұрын
  • Fantastic accent and delivery. Bravo!!

    @photographe06@photographe0610 жыл бұрын
  • His enthusiasm is contagious. A great teacher and a great video! As a side note, the -1/12 result for s=-1 (it's also one the Ramanujan equations) still baffles me although I've watched excellent videos about it. I get it that we should say it's a super-summation and not a regular sum (the series is still divergent with a regular summation). But the fact that that very result explains the Casimir effect in real world physics is akin to magic.

    @babelbabel2419@babelbabel2419 Жыл бұрын
  • I like that he explains sqrt(-1) is called "i" because "we imagined it." There's still plenty of debate about whether "real" numbers are any less just a product of our imaginations!

    @nixonkutz3018@nixonkutz30184 жыл бұрын
    • Not among smart people :)

      @blacktimhoward4322@blacktimhoward43223 жыл бұрын
    • They are

      @gregorsamsa1364@gregorsamsa13643 жыл бұрын
  • He has beautiful writing.

    @Bobskilintopia@Bobskilintopia10 жыл бұрын
    • I opt for Walter Lewin in that matter. I've developed my 'mathematical' writing style by mimicking what i saw at his famous physics course.

      @marcinkaczmarek6156@marcinkaczmarek615610 жыл бұрын
  • love the passion Prof Ed Frenkel shows for his math :D

    @OmegaRainbow@OmegaRainbow10 жыл бұрын
  • Wow, you can feel this guy's passion for math

    @r6854@r68544 жыл бұрын
  • It all sounds esoteric. A bit later: So we connect it to distribution of primes... I know he wanted to point out the significance, because we all somehow care about the primes (computer security...). But it made me smile :)

    @matejalmasi6533@matejalmasi65333 жыл бұрын
  • Million Dollar Math Problem - Numberphile

    @numberphile@numberphile10 жыл бұрын
    • Numberphile The roots are S=0+(pi +,-2pik)i/lnp^n , n=1,2,4,16,...

      @sunkhirous@sunkhirous9 жыл бұрын
    • Numberphile Well my brain hurts ill come back after college and try

      @SicariusWolf@SicariusWolf9 жыл бұрын
    • Numberphile Did you not say that zeta function is valid for values more than 1, so why do you include negative integer line in your video?

      @herennow155@herennow1559 жыл бұрын
    • Sid Sharma The series representation for the zeta function is indeed valid only for those values of s whose real part is greater than 1, but there is a fancy technique called analytic continuation that allows us to define the values at, say, negative integers. This analytic continuation is perfectly well defined at the negative integers, but more importantly is equal to the summation for values bigger than 1, so we sort of abuse the equals sign and just say that the zeta is in fact the series.

      @randomensign2437@randomensign24379 жыл бұрын
    • RandomEnsign but i only see that with negative zeta function, the series will be divergent. how can e.g - zeta(-4) which is equal to 1^4 +2^4 + 3^4 ........... be convergent?

      @herennow155@herennow1559 жыл бұрын
  • IF i have had seen this video 12 years ago I would probably fall in love with math. Great stuff

    @archangel9524@archangel95245 жыл бұрын
  • I came from Veritasium's video about his deeper and richer love for turbulent flow and bias towards laminar flow. It was a nice video.

    @mjzudba5268@mjzudba52683 жыл бұрын
  • Magnificent explanation, it is the first time in my short life that I understand something clearly

    @davidwilliansmorante9798@davidwilliansmorante97983 жыл бұрын
  • I love the random "keep watching!" message. Do they think we are going to say something like: "nope, this video is longer than 4 minutes... that is too much interesting information for me today!! I have to stop watching RIGHT NOW!!" xD

    @villanelo1987@villanelo198710 жыл бұрын
    • I think it was to quell all of the youtube math experts starting a shitshow about how that particular sum is -1/12 because they watched Numberphiles other video

      @Rick_McDick@Rick_McDick10 жыл бұрын
    • Did you notice what was being discussed right when the annotation appeared?

      @TheMrvidfreak@TheMrvidfreak10 жыл бұрын
    • It's because he says 1+2+3+... doesn't equal any number and they have a video about it equaling -1/12.

      @Darwin226@Darwin22610 жыл бұрын
    • I think it is more to prevent pointless questions/rants in the comments that could be avoided if they just watch the next few seconds.

      @kylobite@kylobite10 жыл бұрын
    • It's because otherwise people would all immediately pause the video in utter outrage because they KNOW 1+2+3+4... = -1/12

      @lukasdon0007@lukasdon000710 жыл бұрын
  • This guy has explained it so well. Bravo and thank you sir!

    @bkzlab@bkzlab9 жыл бұрын
  • Here after the Indian Mathematician proved the hypothesis. Absolutely mind blowing.

    @sanjoggururaj4674@sanjoggururaj46742 жыл бұрын
  • What a lovely explanation! Thank you!

    @Torchman-@Torchman-5 жыл бұрын
  • I'm only seven minutes in and this guy just explained imaginary numbers in such a comprehensive way that... I think I finally get it It's beautiful I think I might cry

    @ekinebobmanuel4551@ekinebobmanuel45517 жыл бұрын
  • When I saw 3:30 I started to scream. That -1/12 videos still haunts me.

    @fireemblemaddict128@fireemblemaddict1288 жыл бұрын
  • Great video, excellent "teacher", clear and clean explanation. 👍❤️

    @tamirerez2547@tamirerez2547 Жыл бұрын
  • Came here to see this great video after watching the recent podcast with Lex Fridman. So much passion in his eyes!

    @AAAIJungwon@AAAIJungwon Жыл бұрын
  • You can feel the passion for math when this professor speaks. Makes me wish I had time to learn complex math.

    @RamboMadCow@RamboMadCow5 жыл бұрын
  • A beautiful lesson. The better explanation of riemann zeta function that expose perfectly and clearly how simply and beautiful is to arrive on the wall of the 1 million dollar question. I am beginner in math, but this take me exactly at the base of the wall. Excellent.

    @arimanno74@arimanno745 жыл бұрын
  • I love it when a Non Native English Speaker explains Math, it's direct to the point and concise

    @alfredhitchcock45@alfredhitchcock455 күн бұрын
  • I'm in love with his accent!

    @cheyma7945@cheyma79454 жыл бұрын
    • Russian, pal.

      @segueoyuri@segueoyuri2 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you Brady for doing a piece on Riemann hypothesis. I have been waiting for this for a while.

    @winter32842@winter3284210 жыл бұрын
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