The Scientist Who Sucked at Math

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[@Newsthink]

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[@myuncle2]

I'd like to see the biographies of Kepler, the real father of gravity; and Guericke, the real father of electricity.

[@democracyforall]

MAXWELL was given faradays laws of electromagnatic induction to write them in the maths after he discovered them and discovered a generator, maxwell has nothing to do with those discoveries , today we can write them in our own maths and throw out the maxwell because he has nothing to do with it. he was just another rich kid looking for opportunity to be famouse on some one else works so he is finally out...

[@kh3thelo]

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernard Rieman, Schrödinger

[@81giorikas]

Wasn't Heaviside the true originator of the equations?

[@topologo]

Emmy Noether; Julian Schwinger; Sophie Germain; Paul Weiss; Joseph Jacobi.

[@dhuramc-qo9nz]

Respect to Mrs Faraday. A very supportive wife. She knew his potential

[@kkuznetsov2424]

Good one! 😂

[@charlescowan6121]

Haha! Nice!

[@bakdiabderrahmane8009]

Michael Faraday's story was one the first scientist stories I heard as kid, still inspiring to this day.

[@dhuramc-qo9nz]

My favourite ever. Watched the documentary with glassy eyes

[@teddy_miljard]

He inspires me to publish my theories as a not academic person. 😊

[@PepeVoltaireBartolemeMontesqui]

Andrew Carnegie for us non stem majors

[@brotherjohnno]

Heard his story as a kid and realised that anyone can make something of themselves if they have dedication and belief. This guy is inspirational and one of my heroes.

[@charlescowan6121]

Michael Faraday could do math! He wasn't formally educated, but his abilities were good enough. Maxwells equations came directly from Faradays experiments and journals.

[@ethansocrates4252]

exactly

[@ayanokojikiyotaka2413]

@@ethansocrates4252 He only knew upto algebra

[@Liwidyanto789]

​@@ayanokojikiyotaka2413where u know the fact?

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@@Liwidyanto789 Wikipedia

[@ayanokojikiyotaka2413]

@@Liwidyanto789 and some biographies

[@TharunKumar-yx8cy]

If Michael Faraday was present during the time of Noble prize, he would have got so many of them

[@HunzolEv]

His chemistry and science knowledge was beyond any mathematician.

[@TheKimbit]

mathematicians are not scientists.....

[@TheKimbit]

and newton is a much more revered scientist who also literally invented calculus

[@artlover7770]

That's... not a very plausible comparison.

[@anthonygordon9483]

@@TheKimbit Your some what right and wrong. Mathematician themselves dealing with just math is not a scientist. But the field of Mathematics goes beyond knowing math. Its a understanding of all applied math. So when you go to school to be a mathmatician you are also using datasets like in statistics. just using a graphing calculator you can create your own algorithms cause your dealing with math over time when your using graphs. An example could be a team of scientist that study climate change over time. The team may require a mathematician to take in datasets and analyze climate change over time based on historical data to predict or determine the causes. In this case a mathematician is a scientist. He doesnt even have to know anything about climate change, all he is focused on is the record sets and variables to punch in to get a result dataset. These types of things require study. As long as you understand the subject at which your applying math to your a scientist. But that same mathimatician could also take his degree and be a professor or teacher in which he is not a scientist. Your field of study does not make you a scientist, your field of work does.

[@TheKimbit]

@@anthonygordon9483 you're saying if a math major decides to be a scientist, then they are a scientist. That's obvious. But a mathematician is never a scientist. Your definition of mathematician seems to be "anyone who uses math in their career" which is obviously not the case. A mathematician is a person whos primary goal is to study math, which objectively means, nothing to do with the sciences unless it is mathematical applications that MAY be used in sciences, which is still not science. Also, no mathematician studies datasets? Then you are doing data analysis or some applied math FIELD, but not mathematical work.. If you go and do scientific work, then you are not a mathematician anymore, unless you do mathematics study as a hobby Saying " the field of Mathematics goes beyond knowing math" is obviously not true, by definition. You seem to think anyone who uses math is a mathematician, which is certainly not the case, a mathematician is someone who studies math for the sake of knowing math. If you study math to do statistics, then you are studying statistics or data analysis.

[@raydelaforce8149]

Madam, you treated Michael Faraday with sympathy and respect. He was a humble man and at the same time a great man of science, and an inspiration to me. As an engineer, I probably know more math then he, but that does not diminish my admiration. He did what he did with what he had - dogged enthusiasm and a relentless heart. He forged ahead where others failed.

[@waynec369]

No narcissism in that comment 🙄

[@paromita_ghosh]

🤡🤡🤡 wtf

[@abhinavbhati5159]

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature ~ Michael Faraday

[@bigmoney4996]

I've been waiting for this video of Michael Faraday thank you

[@FlyXtreme]

Gosh what a guy truly inspiring

[@sarenmohil396]

Your videos are always informative to watch and fun to see always the way you explain and breakdown the video. Waiting for the next :)

[@danielwestlund6172]

Great work as always.

[@hell-hollowfarmer41]

'His lack of education may have been a blessing in disguise,' big shout out to my hometown's public high school! You prepared me to walk in the company of greatness!

[@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke]

I love your biography videos Cindi. They are concise, professional and very informative. Thank you.

[@franmiskovic7630]

Its interesting how Faraday without formal education was influenced by a great mathematician Boscovich to create "lines of force". These influenced great mathematician Maxwell to establish his equations. Finally, they're in today's form thanks to Heaviside, man that lacked formal education.

[@paradiselost9946]

there are no "lines of force". its an illusion.

[@franmiskovic7630]

@@paradiselost9946 isnt any mathematical formalism an illusion?

[@poksnee]

A beautiful and inspiring story...thanks.

[@dipendragahamagar2386]

His contribution has lead the humanity to next level. Absolutely Genius

[@lightlabetc5183]

Wonderful video about Michael Faraday! I talk, write and teach about him regularly. James Maxwell is another giant in the scientific community. Einstein stood on the shoulders of them and had their poster in his office. Your website looks pretty interesting too. I will check it out and may contact you directly

[@dhuramc-qo9nz]

Michael Faraday was Sir Humphrey Davies greatest discovery

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Great video, God bless you.

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Thank U so much ❤👍🙏🙏🙏

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Thank you very much. I love scientists and inventors story.

[@dhuramc-qo9nz]

Hundred percent. It always makes me wonder, where we would have been, had it not been for them. God bless their brilliant souls 🙏

[@sciencetalks909]

Excellent video...Not just we get to know about the personal life of Faraday, I believe such chronological accounts help us better understand the concepts of science as well, as we get to know the context of their work, what puzzles they were after

[@natesgarage]

Excellent video Cindy! I learned a handful of new fun Faraday facts.

[@Newsthink]

Thanks Nate - and really appreciate you letting me use your footage too!

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I just discovered this channel and I have been binge watching so many of your videos! Thank you for the quality content! 🙌

[@Newsthink]

Appreciate it!

[@yonga100]

Nice video as always. You forgot to mention about the famous Faraday's laws of electrolysis.

[@BassTheUniverseMan]

Well done!

[@shagwellington]

Good video. Interesting

[@R6Rhybark]

One of my best scientist

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Those in the beginning were beautiful graphics

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i love the way she put the sponsor at the end of the video instead of putting it in middle of the video. Putting the sponsor in middle of the video breaks the flow of someone understanding .

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

Faraday is the tops on my list due to the many discoveries that have a direct impact on my life. True scientist!😁

[@PrinceLifestyle01]

Thank you 😊

[@jimparsons6803]

His approaches were ground breaking and with a few modificatins was applied to other areas of endevors --- the emphasis on observation and subsequent experiment. This according to my Freshman Chemistry Professor. ... And in his own way, for the times, a pretty good chemist too.

[@Tom-vk2rv]

i actually had to study elektro magnetism, and i never quite understood why a magnet trough a coil could produce a current but your quote that the same process could be reversed made it all clear!

[@paradiselost9946]

so you know understand? are you sure? because you know it works the other way? what if the coils shorted out? what if the coils open circuit? if you understood at all, you wouldnt understand but would be more confused than ever!

[@friedrichmyers]

Did you really understand it, if you're satisfied with understanding that the inverse is also true?

[@drslyone]

Plain Mr. Faraday till the end. Much respect.

[@maxsantana1]

Newsthink, please make a movie of his life. It’s so inspring.

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New sub. Your videos are awesome!

[@TheVirtualArena24]

I understood from this video better what is electromagnetic induction 😅. Explained very simply that's what I want

[@glenmartin2437]

Thank you.

[@abirbhattacharjee9415]

Make a video on "James Stuart Cleark Maxwell" also😊 that will be great

[@tristanmisja]

I wish I could go back in time and have a long chat with him

[@JorgeMartinez-xb2ks]

Amazing Faraday, thanks for the video.

[@davidrandell2224]

Canadian electrical engineer, Mark McCutcheon, has updated electricity and all of physics since 2002. “The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy “, for proper physics. Much progress since Faraday, Maxwell, Steinmetz, Heaviside, etc.

[@komolkovathana8568]

Have seen in a video/clip that his (Faraday's) Prototype-motor was just a mercury clump in a tiny ceramics Cup, dipped-in by a wire of Copper strand.!! An innovation goes far...

[@johnfist6220]

He did really well for someone with such disadvantages. Who knows what he would have discovered if he'd came from a wealthier background.

[@jackhandma1011]

It isn't necessary that Faraday was bad at math. His educational background on the subject was just lacking. The fact that he did all his discoveries DESPITE having no knowledge on advanced math showed how smart he truly was.

[@s.f.f.f.t3626]

He was bad at math because he didn't KNOW how to do it, that's all.

[@dejavu666wampas9]

@@s.f.f.f.t3626- That’s right. He wasn’t bad at maths, he was simply under-educated in maths.

[@paradiselost9946]

there is a world of difference between having an intuitive grasp of how something actually WORKS, versus being able to arrange squiggles from one side of an equals sign to the other. do you spend more time struggling with the concept, the physical processes, or do you struggle and waste time moving squiggles around on a page? my experience is we seem to get blinded by the task of moving squiggles. maths is only of any use if you understand how the squiggles relate to the physical process they are supposed to describe. but one can understand the physical process by simple observations. no squiggles required. some of the BEST "engineers" i know can barely write their own name. drop-outs. but they already knew how things worked. just had no reason to prove they can move squiggles around, preferred proving it by simply doing it. be amazed just how much of our modern world came about by so called "uneducated" or "self taught" people...

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[@corners1733]

awesome

[@Josh-Parkhill]

Fundamental nature of forces

[@eminemeatingmmswithotherem5879]

What a wonderful man

[@robbes7rh]

Einstein famously said that if you can't explain a scientific phenomenon in a fairly simple and straight forward manner, then you don't really understand it. Mathematical expressions make a great icing on the cake that can show precise relationships between disparate things. But they are usually not the best starting place for developing a true understanding. When Einstein performed thought experiments he wasn't running equations through his head, but he was thinking deeply about the physical world we understand through our senses.

[@Kaiser.Alexander.I]

At 1:20 minute, a book was mentioned. What is the name of that book? I love to read it.

[@rayrocher6887]

Thanks Cindy Paul, thanks Faraday, thanks God, thanks Maxwell, I love you guys too. Amen a future. Blessed marriage, amen

[@md.noorulkarim5542]

He was an excellent mathematician. Formal education matters nothing.

[@arthurmartinez7058]

his brain is a bright light!

[@Earl_E_Burd]

21st century America is where dreams often meet dead ends

[@83jbbentley]

What the song that plays at 6:05? I’ve been looking for it forver

[@vironpayne3405]

Michael Faraday is possibly the greatest scientific empericist of all time, and he was an amazingly devoted Christian, a Sandamainen which was basically a reformation movement of the Reformation. His later speculative theories after his head injury earned later scientist the Nobel Prize. In particular I am referring to the Ramen Effect observed in aerosols. Faraday's instruments were not good enough to observe the Ramen Effect, but he held to his theory. He also proposed a unification of forces theory that science is still pursuing today.

[@DhruveDahiya]

this is inspiring intuition and powers of observation but lack of formal mathematical terminology for expression- can do both?- yes by doing it all yourself to strengthen the fundamentals if you have the time and willingness, And conveying it enough to be comprehensible by majority of modern scientific community I guess?

[@douglasstrother6584]

Faraday's concept of electric and magnetic fields was revoltionary. Developing a strong physical intuition of electromagnetic fields is still a demanding task. His collaboration with Maxwell was truly historic and still grossly under-appreciated for all of its consequences.

[@help-someone-in-requirements]

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[@Bigdream09]

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[@ultrakool]

about the time of his death the scientific community moved away from intuitive thinking into the modern day eloquence of mathematics and that's a shame. theoretical physics can be expressed in math formulas, but are rarely observed using the scientific method. lots of hocus pocus going on today 🙄

[@ultrakool]

To anyone interested, here is the book that inspired young Faraday: tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/improvementofmin00watt_0/improvementofmin00watt_0.pdf

[@RuneMamba]

sad truth, in this era, Faraday wouldn't even be acknowledged.

[@ultrakool]

@@RuneMamba ...and blacklisted. hundreds of scientists with doctorates today, who happen to be creationists, will attest to that 😠

[@AbhijnanGogoi]

This is something I've also been thinking lately. I realized that we are not taught how to uniquely think about the things. Instead, we're more focused on learning the mathematical formulas (which is important) but completely ignoring the intuition and the scientific method in the process. I think we should focus more on the intuitive part and then derive the mathematics out of it instead of doing the reverse.

[@shuvagatasarkershuvo6670]

I think science got much more complex and vast since then. Therefore math became more crucial to formalize scientific ideas and to harness them as forms of engineering studies.

[@MurdahProduXtions]

Fun fact as Im watching this video I am working through Griffith's electrodynamics Im working on Biot Savart law the more difficult version of ampere's law

[@nickharrison3748]

So, Faraday was Edison & Steve Jobs of his time. Nicely presented. no Maths used to explain the electricity. please also mention Hertz.

[@pctribe7943]

great video...should be loved by every student and curious person.

[@Rico-Suave_]

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 11:02

[@AB-et6nj]

It was said that Einstein had three pictures of scientists in his study: Newton, Faraday, and Maxwell

[@AlternateCurrent.]

I like this guy by the title alone… 😂

[@mobilegaming78575]

Faraday is a true genius

[@jimparsons6803]

The Faraday Cage, one of the more important tools in Nuclear Science as this tool is useful and making other tools, accelerators, and atom smashers.

[@iseeu-fp9po]

What I could never really understand is the connection between equations and reality.

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[@westpapua8941]

I'm a chemist and sucked in math too 😂

[@DivinityOperation]

good luck 😢

[@Liwidyanto789]

You are not chemist.you lied, chemist do math for the courses. 👎👎

[@westpapua8941]

@@Liwidyanto789 lied? Of course not. In fact, I'm an analytical chemist. Screw you. I don't give a fuck about your opinion.

[@michaelmartin4383]

Michael Faraday, is pure genius. Issac Newton, Albert Einstein and Michael Faraday, the three great men of science.

[@myuncle2]

Yes, but don't forget Kepler, the real father of gravity; and Guericke, the real father of electricity.

[@divinegon4671]

There are thousands of Europeans who need to be mentioned

[@nocapproductions5471]

Archimedes and Newton stabd abobe others in my opinion. However, there are many legendary scientists.

[@GEOsustainable]

And Nicola Tesla.

[@immane3240]

One of the greatest intuitive geniuses of all time.

[@johncrowe4548]

One of the greatest scientists of all time.

[@wompstopm123]

you can have all of this running in simulations in your head and you dont have to assign numbers to any of it. numbers are just a way to communicate things

[@Mr-Atheist]

Great

[@czechmeoutbabe1997]

Deciding to stay "plain Mr Faraday" instead of jumping at a knighthood even though he knew a childhood of poverty. Man had excellent priorities in life.

[@robertwright6875]

Apparently he was dyslexic? Anyhow I have a friend who has helped at the Royal Institution. It has been recently been refurbished. They still have their children lectures at Christmas !

[@pamaran916]

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[@adams7707]

Nice biography but the title is a bit misleading. He still was better at math than 99,9% of people living at any time :D

[@Tom-vu1wr]

He wasn't bad at maths he just couldn't do it because he wasn't formally educated in it

[@zchris87v80]

As an engineer who sucks at math, I own two of Faraday's books; one of those printed in 1871. I've been dismissed my entire life, so I really associate with him.

[@user-gd4wt6oi7y]

I never read or heard of his name earlier nobody knows what is wrong or the right information, unless it is backed by multiple platforms

[@jobertsor3368]

So galvanometer was invented before he discovered induced emf.

[@rayjasmantas9609]

A simple insight of Einstein's advanced topic of MC^Sq, is it mocks the electric's power formula, VI^Sq, where one evaluated energy from mass for the power of movement support, and the other mass into energy. leaving it up to you to know which is which if I'm right!

[@rayjasmantas9609]

Ok a hint tot the math problem. One is based on mass having energy to match the speed of light!

[@rootnroute9872]

A Scientist you must know.

[@jonathanhansen3709]

Albert Einstein had only two portraits on the wall of his study at Princeton. One was James Maxwell. The other was Michael Faraday.

[@fattyz1]

The Tesla, make a more sensible apparatus.

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[@ethansocrates4252]

she already made some on Indian mathematicians and scientists

[@GEOsustainable]

He is not the only one. Tesla also could not do the math, but some of his fellow scientists would pitch in. I also, can't do the math, yet I love it.

[@hanstubben]

Not even one mention of the Faraday cage?

[@paradiselost9946]

maybe Mr Faraday, god rest his soul, was more concerned about understanding WHAT WAS TAKING PLACE, than understanding how to move squiggles from one side of an equals sign to the other. because an equation doesnt give you an intuitive grasp of ANYTHING, really.

[@farhanniloy595]

thanks to cosmos

[@Kushal-wk5mc]

Coool