Each era has its own famous people.
We have the internet stars of the 21st century,
artists from the Renaissance, evil monarchs
from the middle ages, and ancient greek philosophers
from… well, ancient Greece.
You see, back then, the Greek philosophers
are like know-it-alls.
They did everything, spanning from philosophy,
music, art, humanities, to unsurprisingly,
the topic of this video, math.
However, you see… the Ancient Greek Mathematicians
didn’t use logic and they mostly just guessed
everything.
That’s why they were wrong in most things.
And, nothing could make them change their
mind: they were some of the most stubborn
people.
This doesn’t mean that they didn’t do
anything good, though.
You know all the geometry formulas you have
to memorize?
Yeah, those were all the doings of the Greeks.
So you know who to get mad at when you ever
do some geometry.
Honestly, though, back then math was too easy.
Any kid nowadays could probably beat one of
those mathematicians in math, despite them
having awesome beards.
And it is actually surprisingly easy to figure
out these formulas by yourself.
They mostly involve cutting and rearranging
shapes and some logic at the very most.
Legends has it that they drew shapes on the
sand to figure out formulas.
Archimedes was killed by soldiers while doing
math (or maybe minus the while doing math
part, it’s a myth after all), and had a
drawing of a sphere and a cylinder drawn on
his grave.
You can now see that these philosophers had
no life and spent all their time on math and
stuff.
Truly bloody legends.
But they weren’t all that great either.
Remember when I said they were stubborn?
Well apparently being open-minded is an important
trait for mathematicians, which they most
definitely weren’t.
First of all, they believed that math was
perfect, and there was no place for weird
numbers in math.
They detested the idea of chaos in math or
weird things that don’t quite add up.
For example, some of the things they hated
were how the square root of 2 is irrational,
or how pi is irrational.
They hated those so much, that one of them
actually murdered one of their students for
investigating irrational numbers!
Now that’s savage.
Moreover, the concept of infinity is also
dismissed by the mathematicians.
This led to the famous paradox of Achilles
and the tortoise.
So basically the tortoise has a head start
cuz it’s slow asf, and Achilles is trying
to overtake it.
The gap between the two keeps decreasing.
However, if it keeps decreasing it would become
smaller and smaller, though it would never
quite reach zero.
That means Achilles wouldn’t overtake the
tortoise, which is impossible because of course,
he will.
The reason for this paradox is how they didn’t
understand the concept of infinity, and infinitesimal.
But come on, its a few hundred BCE.
Despite them being incredibly stubborn, and
only doing some branches of math while completely
ignoring others, they still discovered many
formulas, properties, patterns, etc, as well
as also doing literally every other job back
then.
So, to mathematicians now, they can’t compare,
but they’re still…
Ancient Greek celebrities.
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Anyways, thank you all for watching, and see
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