The Brachistochrone, with Steven Strogatz
Steven Strogatz and I talk about a famous historical math problem, a clever solution, and a modern twist. ------------------ 3blue1brown is a channel about ...
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For this video, I'm doing something a little different. I got the chance to sit down with Steven Strogatz, and record a conversation. For those of you who don't know, Steve is a mathematician at Cornell. He's the author of several popular math books, and a frequent contributor to, among other things, RadioLab and The New York Times. To put it shortly, he's one of the great mass communicators of math in our time. In our conversation, we talked about a lot of things. But it was all centering around this one, very famous problem in the history of math: The Brachistochrone. And for the first two thirds or so of the video, I'm just gonna play some of that conversation. We lay out the problem, talk about some of its history, and go through the solution by Johann Bernoulli f...
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For this video, I'm doing something a little different. I got the chance to sit down with Steven Strogatz, and record a conversation. For those of you who don't know, Steve is a mathematician at Cornell. He's the author of several popular math books, and a frequent contributor to, among other things, RadioLab and The New York Times. To put it shortly, he's one of the great mass communicators of math in our time. In our conversation, we talked about a lot of things. But it was all centering around this one, very famous problem in the history of math: The Brachistochrone. And for the first two thirds or so of the video, I'm just gonna play some of that conversation. We lay out the problem, talk about some of its history, and go through the solution by Johann Bernoulli f...
