Norman J Wildberger is the greatest math teacher on the Net!
@njwildberger
11 жыл бұрын
Its interesting both from a historical, cultural as well as mathematical point of view. Your question is spot on: if high school maths teachers knew this history, then mathematics education would be not only deeper, but also much more interesting.
@martovify
4 жыл бұрын
Hi!, I hope you are still around, is there any decent source to know the details of eudoxus proof for the cone and pyramid?, he seems to have got some interesting geometric proofs but all the books that talk about it just gloss over it.
@brendawilliams8062
2 жыл бұрын
Dr. Wildberger will help all he can. You may not ever understand how he knows so very much ,but you will find he can help you to understand more of what interest you. You never know enough about your own interest but then again you can rest assured he will put your feet into the right shoes if you work at it. He is the most beloved person because of his sincerity and dedication to teaching. Thankyou, Dr. Wildberger.
@rajendralekhwar4131
Жыл бұрын
@@brendawilliams8062 One hundred percent agreed 👍👍 Dr.wildberger is an outstanding mathematician & Gem 💎 of mathematicians…
@dougr.2398
Жыл бұрын
I’m so glad someone is teaching that Archimedes developed calculus techniques, without delving into rigorous details about limits
@anthonyryan9846
8 жыл бұрын
Loving this lecture series....up to lecture 4 in a day Can't wait to watch the rest
@njwildberger
8 жыл бұрын
+Anthony Ryan Thanks. Do you know I have a Patreon site? It is a community of people that support what I do.
@anthonyryan9846
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks again....now watching all videos from your channel. Will look into Patreon site.
@ellabrendairianto5211
7 жыл бұрын
This helps more than school
@clemfrancisco
10 жыл бұрын
beautiful course, thanks for uploading it!
@njwildberger
10 жыл бұрын
It's a pleasure.
@njwildberger
11 жыл бұрын
The spread polynomials have various formulas associated to them. See Chapter 8 of my book. As for the area of a 96-gon, that is essentially equivalent to finding the spread of 1/96 th of a circle. That requires an extension field of the rationals. In other words, the very existence of a 96-gon first must be carefully investigated. Number theory naturally enters here (although it is relatively simple number theory).
@ml244716
9 жыл бұрын
Great lectures. I'm going to have to watch every one of your uploads. Thanks.
@tmyatt1
12 жыл бұрын
Great lecture. Those Greek mathematicians were amazing!
@acho8387
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, professor!
@BubbaYoga
12 жыл бұрын
This is a fascinating series. Thank you for posting!
@alhassannasser6696
7 жыл бұрын
Your channel is great professor Thanks
@berylgreen1973
9 жыл бұрын
Best math prof ever! Thank you!
@KRYPTOS_K5
3 жыл бұрын
EXCELLENT. Brazil 🇧🇷
@njwildberger
12 жыл бұрын
I think you need to watch the video again, I cannot see where I said what you are claiming!
@lands4life1
5 жыл бұрын
Great lecture.
@wendeldickau
10 жыл бұрын
Very interesting series! I like learning about the great "prophets" of math. As a Canadian Prof. I thought somehow Tim Horton's should have been mentioned in one of the lectures.
@njwildberger
10 жыл бұрын
Perhaps Tim is now the most famous Canadian? I wasn't aware of his contribution to mathematics: but on second thought I think it was Erdos who said something like: `a mathematician is a machine that converts coffee into theorems.'
@whdaffer1
10 ай бұрын
Love these videos, but there was hardly anything about how the Greeks thought about infinity in it. Too bad, that's one of the reasons why I watched it. Most of the other stuff I already knew.
@njwildberger
11 жыл бұрын
Yes I suppose that would have been a very stratified society, with immensely rich elites and lots of impoverished slaves and peasants. No doubt life expectencies would vary dramatically been the different strata. And the great mathematicians/thinkers were generally part of, or at least close to, the elite, so could have comparable life spans to now.
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