I Want to Be a Mathematician: A conversation with Paul Halmos

I Want to Be a Mathematician: A conversation with Paul Halmos - trailer

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15 жыл бұрын

The 44-minute film contains a rare interview with Paul Halmos by Peter Renz, revealing his thoughts on mathematics, and how to teach it and write about it. Five bonus features include comments by
mathematicians Robert Bekes, David Eisenbud, Jean Pedersen, and Donald Sarason about their
experiences with Halmos. Interviews with Halmos by Don Albers and Halmos's own writings are included as PDF documents.
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@jdbrown371 14 жыл бұрын

"Looking it up in a book is giving up." Absolutely beautiful

@Cadellquimeric 4 жыл бұрын

Jason Brown Better ask to the rabbi... :))

@nkanyezitshabalala5256 Жыл бұрын

OMG @JasonBrown who are you? I literally wrote this comment because I've had this profile pic for the longest I've known. 😅😊

@nkanyezitshabalala5256 Жыл бұрын

So I hope you dont think this is creepy but I looked through your channel's subscriptions (because of the same channel pic) and they are almost the same. I see that your really into math, I don't know to what extent you like the humanities but my favorite amongst them is philosophy and I saw that you are subscribed to Philosophytube and lastly the classical music part which was really cool. I hope you don't think I am a weirdo or anything 😅😊😅 this is really creepy I hope you can forgive me

@nagamanikomarla5376 Жыл бұрын

@@nkanyezitshabalala5256 that comment was made 13 years ago. Sadly, I don’t think he will respond to you.

@nkanyezitshabalala5256 Жыл бұрын

@@nagamanikomarla5376 😂🤣it was worth it😁😅. I don't see this very often. There is a chance though. And I am waiting patiently. I can't know for sure if this is a similar case but I have once read someone's autobiography and got the rare feeling that personality and interests wise I was identical to that person.

@gabyjacinto2939 10 жыл бұрын

Paul Halmos is my favorite mathematician. Because of him, i´m in love with math texts, and I´ve to thank him for that :) Humility was, I think, his best quality.

@bjthapa571 6 жыл бұрын

"The heart of mathematics lies in simple concrete examples "paul halmos.

@minch333 11 жыл бұрын

at higher levels you are able to work out a lot more than just remembering formulas. Figuring it out for yourself is very satisfying and gives you greater understand of the problem at hand.

@opus88888 8 жыл бұрын

Halmos arrived in the U.S. at 13 years of age, but never lost his Hungarian accent.

@suic86 Жыл бұрын

Hungarian is one the most difficult accent to lose.

@pmcate2 Жыл бұрын

Should that be surprising? I don't think so.

@jdbrown371 15 жыл бұрын

For God's sake don't look it up in a book, looking it up in a book is giving up... I love that!

@reimannx33 5 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful teacher

@AThagoras 10 жыл бұрын

I thought it was just me. When we were given a maths assignment, everyone would rush to the library to try to find the answer in a book. I would grab a pen and paper and start scribbling instead. I always wanted to figure it out for myself.

@nagamanikomarla5376 6 ай бұрын

Ok bruh you ain’t special

@karolissad.4270 2 ай бұрын

@@nagamanikomarla5376 yeah well but he is

@Tkdkid9 14 жыл бұрын

I love math! I'm actually double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, and mathematics. But I have to disagree with him on just doing research. If everyone did research and no one figured out how to apply those principles, there would be no engineers, and no engineers equal no new innovations, or solution to physical problem like more fuel efficient engines, better airplanes...etc...

@christophersedlak1147 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@sanjursan 9 жыл бұрын

Well, by now the whole 40 odd minutes should be available on youtube.

@CsabaSzepesvari 3 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j61-qK5zxtixaIE.html FInally, in 2020 it's here!

@alexasmithy 12 жыл бұрын

This is a great video

@War_lord_K2 6 жыл бұрын

I can connect myself to it

@karls738 8 жыл бұрын

Upload the whole movie.

@anantkhairatkar 5 жыл бұрын

Please upload the whole movie

@jeffhalmos7981 8 жыл бұрын

Dad?

@voooooooos 14 жыл бұрын

I love mathematics too:D Starting my mathematical higher education this autumn and are aiming for master of mathematics, and then I'll see if I'll take a work or continue studying. Imo, applied mathematics is for engineers, abstract mathematics is for mathematicians. Cheers:)

@black_jack_meghav 5 жыл бұрын

But engineers ,scientists and mathematicians go hand in hand. That's inevitably true

@saphiree.7903 4 жыл бұрын

voooooooos “applied mathematics is for engineers and abstract mathematics is for mathematicians “ 🙌🏾🙌🏾

@GabrielFrosty 10 жыл бұрын

I love Paul's beard!

@kimuraarcuz1428 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@GammaDigamma 3 жыл бұрын

Guess what the video duration is the first three digits of pi

@Draft3r 12 жыл бұрын

Great eye! :-)

@BlkSh33p 14 жыл бұрын

@Tkdkid9 "I love math! I'm actually double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, and mathematics." I'm thinking of doing the same.

@robkim55 15 жыл бұрын

Great lovelly

@Cagebreaker21 15 жыл бұрын

This maths trailer has length pi.

@benharper31415 12 жыл бұрын

Approximately :)

@marcpiggott 12 жыл бұрын

@coolman9999uk I agree to an extent, in your day to day maybe you don't need to have a full appreciation of ZFC, but to solve PDEs like say the black scholes PDE you have to know about Hilbert spaces, because the formulation of the problem requires them, and more importantly, because you won't understand the decent numerical methods for solving it. You can always follow a prescription in a text book without actually understanding why the method works, but where's the fun in that?

@HardProblems 12 жыл бұрын

@distractionxx Thanks.

@entertainingyou5274 6 жыл бұрын

I too wanna be a mathematician...

@user-zf4zb8vx7d 4 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@henripoincare77 11 ай бұрын

Me too.

@juanjacobomoracerecero6604 7 жыл бұрын

Well, i think look the solution in a book is giving up, but in some cases you can imagine a way to solve a problem, you find by yourself a piece of the solution but you can't connect it with the rest of the problem, even if is just due to lack of correct notation, so you can research how your idea works in the accepted theory and use them. That is not giving up.

@vonBottorff 6 ай бұрын

Yes, in a perfect world you don't "look it up in a book." But as every grad student in math knows, you're facing an avalanche of material to "master," and you just don't have time to let things mellow and develop and mature. This all but guarantees you won't really learn much --- you'll just get a shallow, survey-level understanding. _Then_ you do your thesis/dissertation, _then_ you really learn some math. Sad that we do it this way. Very frustrating to many who can't abide this system.

@Dangshnizzle 11 жыл бұрын

They should have made it e... wait never mind, that's a shorter trailer. Would Feigenbaum constants of 4 point whatever work?:)

@PianoSonata 14 жыл бұрын

I am Post-Doc in Molecular Biology at Oxford, and those classes or just taken in your 1-2 years. Anything after that is just in your major, and the same for your Masters, Ph.D, you aren't bothered with anything else that is not within your field. All my of Math Ph.D friends don't know how to correct basic grammar errors. Haha. Gotta love them.

@hayekianman 2 жыл бұрын

haha. i start by looking it up in a book. but i am old and not trying to build a career as a mathematician.

@marcpiggott 12 жыл бұрын

@coolman9999uk So set theory and Hilbert spaces are useless? Now I've heard it all.

@PianoSonata 14 жыл бұрын

Well, those should be anywhere... you would expect people would have refined reading and writing skills... Something that is needed to compose math or scientific papers.

@marcpiggott 12 жыл бұрын

@coolman9999uk And furthermore, what if a new problem comes along which isn't directly addressed in some textbook? You won't have the ability to come up with a solution unless you understand the mechanics.

@kikzmyster 12 жыл бұрын

he means, give it a fair shot, not just a minute of two of thinking. he wants people to attack new problems and at least dedicate a couple of days to finding out the answer for yourself before looking up the answer in a book

@zouheiramara2757 4 жыл бұрын

Please anyone can provide me a link to watch the full 41 min

@pmcate2 Жыл бұрын

It's a crime that this was so difficult to find

@siszyzz 12 жыл бұрын

xiang kan...

@tylerclarkq3204 12 жыл бұрын

how is looking something up in a book giving up? I thought that's what you're supposed to do when you do not know something. Is it contradictory to going out and finding the answer for yourselfor something.

@alberthadonlyone 13 жыл бұрын

@coolman9999uk Pure math is in not useless.

@GeetaSingh-gl6pc 4 жыл бұрын

See the video is just 3.14 min long and pi is also 3.14

@rohitrai6187 7 жыл бұрын

the music is bach, isn't it?

@black_jack_meghav 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah bro sounds like it. I thought it was Vivaldi's

@Tkdkid9 13 жыл бұрын

@fibreoptics If there weren't people who figured out how to apply all of these mathematical and physical principles to real life, we wouldn't have anything we have today. How can you disagree with that? Some engineers out there designed the computer that you are talking to me now with, and some engineers out there designed the car that gets you two and from where ever you have to go.

@godofrasiofernandez 3 жыл бұрын

The video 3.14 minutes long

@mohammadjihad569 3 ай бұрын

Video is 3:14 noicee

@mikeypaco 10 жыл бұрын

2+2 =4 im a mathematician!!!!!!!

@VSlimGoel 8 жыл бұрын

+George Splanco ha ha ha so funny

@black_jack_meghav 5 жыл бұрын

You are. In fact everyone is. One realizes and other does not.

@Perimeter1337 11 жыл бұрын

math is a science. if you think otherwise, you're severely mistaken.

@davidk7212 5 жыл бұрын

math is a science, but proving mathematical statements is an art

@shawnwilliams77 11 жыл бұрын

It has a very significant difference from what we consider science, though. It is independent of empirical data. It's a system of truths derived solely from logical reasoning on a set of axioms. I guess what I'm trying to say is that to me, a maths student with hopes of one day becoming a mathematician, maths is not a science. I'm prone to agree with you in saying it's also not an art. It lacks the self-expression which is key to art. So what is maths? Maths is maths; beautiful maths

@shawnwilliams77 11 жыл бұрын

Math is considered a science, yes. But I think many if not most mathematicians consider math more of an art than a science.

@mathsnewdiscoveries 2 жыл бұрын

I have invented new negative numbers, now I hope will change the world positively and push knowledge of mathematics forward for development of mathematics ever. But I don't have support , please I need support from you for you as well.

@billtruttschel 10 жыл бұрын

Applied mathematics is bad mathematics? So there should be no application to the real world? Then what's the point of mathematics?! And looking up math concepts in a book is giving up? There are many math concepts I never would have come up with on my own. I shouldn't have to rediscover everything. I've actually learned a lot (most) of my mathematics from books. I say let's stand on the shoulders giants and learn, apply, and grow. Not blindly rediscover and do pure mathematics forever.

@adiscapestherune2657 6 жыл бұрын

What's the point of art?

@black_jack_meghav 5 жыл бұрын

Well you do not get his point.

@rajnikantsinha2636 Жыл бұрын

It is very likely that applications of modern mathematics in physics will give you inaccurate results. Reason is that modern mathematics is itself not well understood. A kid cannot bear to burden of a large bundle of woods. That is why Einstein's special and general theory of relativity produce incomprehensible results. Similar is the case with quantum mechanics, etc. How can one have faith on the accuracy of calculations done by Einstein, which is still at an infancy stage to mathematicians.

@ethanbottomley-mason8447 5 ай бұрын

@rajnikantsinha2636 You don't need to have faith in Einstein's computations, you can go an read them yourself and check for yourself that they are correct. His theory is jot complete, since it does not predict the true nature of the universe, but it is extremely close, especially on the large scale where Newton's theory failed. Why would applications of newer mathematics give incorrect results? The math won't be wrong and we do computations using novel methods all the time.

@user-cu9ww9tj4i Ай бұрын

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@yedum321 12 жыл бұрын

you know how people say " you can become anything that you want" well if you are reading this than thats just a lie..i believe that to even say that is an absurd idea... so just give up mate and look for things that you think or are good at. i have tried to convince tha myself.

@black_jack_meghav 5 жыл бұрын

It isn't. The reason you're saying this is you don't really want it. If you do then nothing could stop you

@PianoSonata 14 жыл бұрын

MIT.