As someone majoring in Art History, I can tell you this - painted/drawn/ engraved portraits are NOT reliable sources if you wanna know how someone actually looked like back then. You may have noticed that most people depicted in portraits of a certain era have the same face. This is obviously not because they actually all looked the same, it's because those portraits are usually commissioned by the person being portraited/ their family, and the artist is going to make sure to "enhance" features (and hide undesirable ones) in order to make their subject look more conventionally attractive and to make their patron happy with the final product. Painters/ illustrators/ engravers shaped the reality they were depicting to their will and always represented it according to their own and their patron's values/ world views. That's one of the reasons why photography was so damn controversial in the art world when it was invented in the 19th century, for photography shows reality as it is, including all its imperfections. Anyways, I am a firm believer that you should have also disqualified the mathematicians who came before the era of photography and didnt have photos. At the very least , if you really wanted to include them anyway, you should have based your opinion on written descriptions from these guys' contemporaries. Written reports are by no means 100% reliable, and obviously they can distort reality just the same, buuuuuut usually, if a historical figure was especially hot, there tends to be a large amount of written records about how attractive they were. Lol
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
Firm believer in the house. You made a good case, but a video ranking people based on descriptions on them would probably have made for a very lame video (:
@liaspooked4980
7 ай бұрын
@@NikolajKuntner hey I am just extremely concerned about accuracy in my top ten most bangable mathematicians of all time tier lists. This is important stuff
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
@@liaspooked4980 I have learned and I will treat it with more caution next time.
@gmozzi5827
7 ай бұрын
Incredibly important video thank you so much
@mikotonoamai3126
7 ай бұрын
Even if Galois has only one picture he still makes it to the top of my list Still I'm really happy that I'm not the only one on earth that has a top 10 smashable mathematicians list
@santiagoarce5672
7 ай бұрын
Arnold GOAT
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
Yes!
@clarkkant5322
7 ай бұрын
He can differential my equations any day of the week 🥵 (unironically, great textbooks btw)
@santiagoarce5672
7 ай бұрын
@@clarkkant5322 Agreed on the books. He can map my cat anytime he wants 😨
@veganphilosopher1975
7 ай бұрын
Thoughts on set ❤? where ❤ = { 👌: 👌= me and Nikolaj } ???
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
is an amorphous set
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
Jerzy Łoś is cute tool.
@clarkkant5322
7 ай бұрын
Not a list I would have expected to see, lol. Some good picks, and I would nominate further: young Hassler Whitney, young Edsger Dijkstra (making use of the loose definition of "mathematician"), and Tim Gowers.
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
Nice pics. Gowers has something slightly otherworldly too
@clarkkant5322
7 ай бұрын
@@NikolajKuntner I agree, he looks like some ethereal being who infiltrated our society just to see what these silly creatures are about (and his intelligence is roughly what I would expect from such a being)
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
@@clarkkant5322 There's a nice episode of the In Our Time podcast, which has been going for two decades, in which Gowers is a guest. Google "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Pierre-Simon Laplace"
@clarkkant5322
7 ай бұрын
@@NikolajKuntner thanks for the reccomendation, I'll give it a listen!
@morfey8740
7 ай бұрын
This was one of the videos of all time
@lt.jackass3478
7 ай бұрын
The vibe I'm getting is a 'straight' guy coming up with convoluted reasons to justify his gayness lol. 'like bro, he's like a genius. He like made huge advancements in science. Isn't that kinda sexy?' Not saying that's what's going on. But it gave me a good laugh.
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
You mean the justification for Feynman? I tend to view the occupations of physics vs. math as fluid.
@melkenhoning158
7 ай бұрын
Missing Grigori Perelman
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
oof
@priyanshukalal1195
7 ай бұрын
As I don't want to reconsider my interests, here's a list of top five females that I would pick 1)Laura Schaposnik 2)Holy Kreiger 3)Mariana Viazovska 4)Maryam Mirzakhami(Debatable) 5)Eugenia Chang(Debatable) Honourable mention- Emmy Noether
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
Branching and blending fields leads to the most surprising results.
@melkenhoning158
7 ай бұрын
I would sell my soul to be with Holly Krieger
@shoopinc
7 ай бұрын
Definitely agree with Edward Frenkel. I would also include June Huh another living mathematician. John Urschel has gotta make an appearance too for being so strong; although he was famous for playing American Football first. Honorable mention for KZitem Chads wrath of math and epic math time. My female picks: Tai-Danae Bradley Lisa Piccirillo Kelsey Houston-Edwards
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
I recognize this list. PS: Epic Math Time is fantastic.
@priyanshukalal1195
7 ай бұрын
It's criminal to not include Holy Kreiger in Female list.
@shoopinc
7 ай бұрын
@@priyanshukalal1195 Name the section of the US legal code
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
@@priyanshukalal1195 Make that list!
@priyanshukalal1195
7 ай бұрын
@@NikolajKuntner Added the list. Also Flammable maths belong in the KZitem Chads list
@shoopinc
7 ай бұрын
OFFICIAL LIST? According to you!
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
The ranking is scientifically accurate.
@FishSticker
7 ай бұрын
4:06 did you say autistic or artistic
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
I choose both.
@FishSticker
7 ай бұрын
@@NikolajKuntner axiom of choice is really coming in with the W here
@brady7222
7 ай бұрын
no descartes :(
@SCBA-if4wl
7 ай бұрын
No nazis??? If nazis were allowed Teichmüller would've been first icl he looks so :3
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
eh, too run of the mill mathematician type
@SCBA-if4wl
7 ай бұрын
@@NikolajKuntner I just like bois with glasses then :3
@FishSticker
7 ай бұрын
Feynman still too low 😢😢😢
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
😢I can't make all the mathematicians hate me.
@KineHjeldnes
7 ай бұрын
😂
@KineHjeldnes
7 ай бұрын
Freeman Dyson! Come on
@NikolajKuntner
7 ай бұрын
I remember there being a rant about Lagrangians early in the narrated version of Half-Life.
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