Hilbert solved the puzzle on his own, but he acknowledged that it was all Einstein's idea and that Einstein rightfully deserved the credit. Hilbert knew how to pluck the fruit from the tree planted and grown by Einstein. Hilbert was a gentleman.
Well the thing is, a modern day mathematician, who has graduated with pure math and has practiced loads of math , if he/she is left on their own, they won't be able to understand physics as good as physicists do. They'll always need physicists to interpret a law or it's large scale implications, because mathematicians are largely bothered about general cases. As Feynman had said, Physicists are bothered about a special case. Difference lies in the functioning of their brains. A mathematician's brain is very manipulative, looking to manipulate and simplify complicated expressions. They're also analytically rigorous. Physicists are much more objective in their way of thinking, and are also very observant people. Einstein observed a simple phenomenon, Electromagnetic Induction, and started to think about STR. So, the point being, Physics IS complicated, but it can't be understood better by pure Mathematicians than Physicists
To say that physicists are much more objective compared to mathematicians, while mathematics might just be the most objective branch of science there is, is absolutely insane. Just lmao.
@@DD-vc7fq You must not have read much on the philosophy of mathematics. To so strongly declare math as "the most objective branch of science there is" is totally inaccurate and highly contested. To even call math a science is misleading. The word science was created to describe a certain way of obtaining knowledge empirically, through sense data. Math is an apriori field, meaning it can be done prior to any connection of the physical world. Why do you think the perennial question of whether math is invented or discovered persists so heavily to this day? Maybe do some research about realism, logicism, or the philosophy of math that Hilbert himself adhered to, formalism. The ultimate irony being Hilbert (a formalist) would 100% disagree with you. Formalists see mathematics as primarily a manipulation of symbols according to specified rules. They deny that mathematical entities have any independent existence (objectivity) outside of these formal systems.
All Hilbert did was to solve a math problem: he just minimized the action using Euler and Lagrange. Einstein created physics, a new way to look at nature. And Einstein also arrived at the field equations; sure, by a route not as elegant as Hilbert's. But all was in Einstein's reasoning: the spacetime curvature, the physical content causing this curvature and the relation of both. In the past, Minkowsky elegance; after, Hilbert's elegance. It seems the mathematicians are in great debt to our fella Einstein!!!!!
I agree but sometimes.Because someones ( to example=few physics) can plunge the own dreams but math is certain,math is certainly true language.(its language of nature.)
@@kavankachoria1699 The concept was whole because of Einstein, if Hilbert took his idea and solved its mathematical part quicker than Einstein, it does not give him credit for the whole concept.
@@grasianofau8771 Ramanujan's Brain Was Compared To Newton's Brain, Even Hardy gave him 100/100 and 80/100 to David Hilbert in Mathematical Skills, so you can imagine Ramanujan's IQ
@@mindhunter8772Hilbert Motto in response to Godel and Russel Paradox. " We don't know, we will never know", Hilbert mooto " We must know, we will know" written on his tombstone to this day.
CMV: As amazing as Ramanujan was, Hilbert > Ramanujan, by very close margin. Only because his works have been so encompassing and connective. He's like the matrix keymaker of modern mathematics.
As much as he was a legend, he was pretty savage too. A student dropped math to study poetry. Hilbert: "Good. He didn't have enough imagination to become a mathematician anyway."
Actually, the first mathematical publication of the Relativity principle was written by Hilbert. He could easily and fast write down the equations. But the magazine in which he published his work was slower than Einstein.
Fucking hell Hilbert was a damn god, and he wasn't your typical child prodigy either. He just passed by in school with very good math abilities, but we know that anyone who cares can do an A+, since school math is weak. But nontheless he became a legend. Only through his sheer devotion to data compressing logic. And he took 1 week to figure out the field equations by variation calculus, for which Einstein with differential geometry took 8 years...
@@Wabbelpaddel Minkowski developed the idea for Maxwell's equation (i.e. vector and scalar potential, current and charge into 4-d vector). The first scientist to realize the implications to SR was Hilbert. The idea of interval, invariants etc is all due to Hilbert. Crucial contributions were made by Poincare too.
... ... No wonder! ...Hilbert used to mess with other people's papers to revise them (mathematically speaking) and many didn't like him.... like ...... Einstein! (in fact they didn't even get along) .....
@@lycoris7886 Imagine coming up with an alternative way of deriving the formula that reflects the universes structure just for a fun exercise. Fucking hell, if only I could become a 1000th of what he was...
@@Wabbelpaddel So true, any one of the good ideas from people like Hilbert could literally make people include them in history books, but those ideas are just his side projects lmao.
shush, you know nothing. Hilbert was itself already one of most influential & profilic mathematicians of all time. This was only his fun side quest. What took him days had taken einstein years(though again yeah that was subsequent to einstein's model)
