The main video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nXexsSWrc1Q.html Extra physics bit: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AZxoENTRKxg.html Numberphile's Pi Playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PL4870492ACBDC2E7C
I'm glad Brady was able to give them an opportunity to set the record straight to a mainstream audience. I'm sure it must be frustrating to have your work widely misrepresented.
He is inspirational. I never liked the idea of classroom teaching in my life but his lectures changed me. He starts from the very basics and takes you to a research level.
What a pleasure to see this interview of two outstanding examples of scientists who are obviously very learned in their field who remain personable and honest to the ideals of the scientific method. In business, it is often stated that all publicity - intentional or unintentional - is still publicity. Perhaps Science needs to give in that philosophy in these times of click-bait, popularity, and social “media” we now all unfortunately find ourselves in.
I have to admire these guys for their dedication and their admission that string theory isn’t a testable hypothesis yet. I love meeting other high-energy physicists, and I dearly wish I could write to them
অর্ণব প্রিয় দা, জানিনা এই কমেন্ট তোমার চোখে পড়বে কি না, আমি তোমার স্কুলে পড়তাম, তোমার থেকে দুই বছরের ছোট, তুমি বাংলা মাধ্যম স্কুল কে বিশ্বের মানচিত্র জায়গা করে দিলে। তোমাকে অশেষ ধন্যবাদ
@@alien9209 We do learn a lot in school, depending on what you consider as 'learning' And 'medium do not matter' is a realisation that you reach at a later stage in life. A lot of us get bullied for not being able to speak proper/fluent English while growing up and it leads up to a lot of insecurities. And those doesn't go away easily in absence of external validation. A "Bengali Medium" senior, reaching a position of importance help others with insecurities. Visibility matters
Glad you made the effort to interview these guys to dig deeper into the string theory part of the story. Not many people have looked into it that deeply, beyond the surface-level story about Pi. Great job, Brady!
12:35 So many years of studying mathematics and today I realized that Euler was Swiss not German. xD Maybe because he solved the issue of Seven Bridges of Königsberg I always thought that he is German. :P
Thank you for helping them share their story. I have deep respect for these physicists. I think theres a trend of science, math and physics becoming increasingly abstract and esoteric while simultaneously the education standards here in the US continue to decline. The result is a growing mistrust among the average people of science in general, we saw this explode during covid. As this mis-trust continues to grow I think we need a renewed effort to help average people globally connect with our great minds like Saha and Sinha. We need more communicators and networks for communication to connect the most abstract advanced research with the most common denominator in order to spread trust as much as possible to the greatest number of people. Its difficult to simplify things but its also part of the communication process and we need the general population to understand the importance of work like this as this work becomes increasingly impactful on our everyday lives. The more alienated the gen pop is from science and math, the greater the distrust and greater the resistence to advancement.
The only reason it feels like there is some invisible hand that is trying to show you the right way is that these people are so humble that they cannot believe that they figured it out on their own.
I think that it's very exciting that we now have a pi formula that has a parameter that can be any number even if it's a side product of String Theory investigation. It could open up new ways to look into pi and understand it better or even calculate it better.
12:00 Even Aryabhatta has found finite difference scheme for expressing sin values. He was 1000 yrs before Madhava. Anyway, I used to think Euler was French until now 😂😂
An excellent interview. Nice to hear directly from the researchers. Not surprised by the exaggerations of course, but great both in this video and your earlier video the record was clearly stated. The joy of finding things out, or however exactly it was stated, have to agree that's a pretty darned good reason for researching anything, regardless of one's level.
"...and he wanted to send it to some of his mathematician friends, and it turned out that one of them was Terence Tao..." Your heart would simply stop.
Maybe in the future their formula for computing π with high accuracy and many digits will be better remembered than their article's overall contribution to the string theory.
Fellow Bengali statistics major here. West Bengal, India has probably some of the best people for mathematical research but some of the worst infrastructure.
I just went and read the article Sinha wrote. It has all the details you need to play with these formulas on your computer. I have not read the paper yet though.
It occurs to me that as a formula might hope to better approximate a transcendental number, as a journalist, Brady might hope to create a story that better approximates the truth of the formula's discovery.
String theory is an intellectual pursuit to explain nature. It may yield the truth, it may not but at least new mathematical tools are being invented or discovered which can or may be used in other branches of science to reveal more of nature. Best wishes to everyone in the pursuit of the truth and my only wish is that we keep our ego’s in check. 😂
HAHAHHAHAHAHA omg. Amazing. These guys are SO nice. THey think "misreporting" is too strong a word while they had to refute the statement that claimed they were going to "revolutionize the whole field of mathematics." If anything, misreporting is a MASSIVE understatement. Holy hell. Im dead hahaha
I got a bit emotional when I heard that lambda can be a complex number! How?! I want to see how the size of the error varies for different values across the complex plane when an increasing number of terms are included in the series expansion for pi.
For anyone who gets the "free parameter" notion: does that hint at a higher order of mathematics in which lambda cancels out? Maybe what I'm getting at is already obvious, but I'll try to be more specific. I have the intuition that if the series works for _any λ,_ then it seems there's something one could theoretically do to the series to remove the need for λ. Similar to approximating a limit, or how an expression whose both sides are divided by two can just be multiplied by two, to get a simpler expression. Except in this case we don't really know how to get rid of λ. I'm happy to be told I'm wrong, just curious and I didn't know where else to ask.
My own response to my question is what he says at 15:40 about the "infinite tower". I get the sense that the notion of an infinite series used to calculate π - reduced in practice to a finite series by deciding when to stop - can be transformed into this lambda function, where the size of λ represents the same thing as the size of the series: i.e. increasing calculation complexity, to get more digits of π. So in essence that's saying infinite λ ≈ infinite series. Except I don't think that's actually correct if one looks at the lambda formula.
