Secret Geniuses Who Shocked their Teachers

I had a friend who was a mathematics wizzard when we were in college. One day, our teacher presented the new lesson and showed us how to do it following an almost endless process to compute for the answer. After he's done, he gaved us a problem to solve on our own. As expected, my friend voluntered to solve it on the board. But what my friend did made our mathematics teacher insulted. My friend made his own formula which is too short and easy to understand. Our teacher checked my friend's work over and over using the super long process he showed us. He even gave one more problem to my friend to solve but same thing happened. Our class end up early that day, then our teacher doesn't seem to like to handle his class with us anymore and he ignored my friend from that very day until we graduated 2 years later.

Accidentally solving 2 previously thought impossible problems, and learning to ignore your own hallucinations through the power of your own intelligence, are easily the top 2 most impressive feats in my book. Amazing!

being someone horrible at math, this stuff is all the more impressive to me.

I admire these people too. When I was 50, in 1994, I accomplished the Advanced Class Amateur Radio examination with a 100% score in 30 minutes, remembering the mathematical formulas, using a scientific Calculator with no included memories. Next year I passed the Extra Class exam with 4 wrong answers out of 40 questions, receiving a 90 percent score, plus passing the 20 Word Per Minute Morse Code Exam. I was just recently licensed 60 years at age of 77. Ray, W2CH.

Dantzig's story only goes to show the mind is very powerful if there are no other influencing factors (in his case, he thought it was a homework, and so his mind thought there is an answer to it, so it found it). I have a similar case but not about math. One time I got the worst fever. My friends gave me the most effective medicine for it. Clueless, I took the tablet and rested and my mind is only fed with the fact that my friends say it was the most effective. I woke up the next day feeling better, fever gone. Only did they admit what they gave me was a mere candy, not medicine at all. But I was healed. All because my mind thought it was really the most effective, not a lick of doubt, so it worked itself with the things I have inside me and healed me.

0:00 - George Dantzig 5:51 - Yu Jianchun 7:50 - Shakuntala Devi 9:46 - Grigori Perelman 12:30 - Ufot Ekong 13:50 - Shouryya Ray 15:28 - John Forbes Nash Jr.

Him: which mathematic mines amazed you the most? Me: all of em

That advanced math gives me a headache looking at it. Impressed with all that can do it. Very informative and fun to watch. Was fun to watch. Great video

The only impressive math thing I've ever done was the last question of a test I was struggling with for a word problem. I couldn't remember the radiological decay formula, so I re-invented it from scratch by using my scientific knowledge and logic. If I remember correctly, the points from that question were what let me pass the test.

So... Moral of the story is slackers make huge impacts and the way they're made is beyond belief

Professor: so these are famous unsolved problems in math– Student: homework

I loved the George Dantzig story. He never knew that the problems were unsolvable, so there was no limit to his brain searching for the answers...amazing story 👏 I would recommend everyone to watch the movie "The man who knew infinity" based on the life of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. He made great and original contributions to many mathematical fields, including complex analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. He was "discovered" by G. H. Regarded as one of the world's greatest mathematicians, his life story, with its humble and sometimes difficult beginnings, is as interesting in its own right as his amazing work.

This is one channel that holds true to it's name. Great work by all involved!

As a teacher of a foreign language, I had a handful of young geniuses. Apart from one, they all would pout, cry or have a tantrum at the slightest inconvenience. Like, the classmates would guess their word when we played hangman too soon. One boy would regularly sit on the floor, away from us and shout his answers from there. I guess we can't have everything: being extremely talented and emotionally stable. Not that I'm saying any of these Maths geniuses are like that, it's just my personal experience.

Hi I respect your hard work the be amazed crew you have gotten so many videos out every day with so much extensive knowledge in it.

I remember a friend of mine who was taking advanced Calculists in the 8th grade! Mike McFarland is his name, and he went on to become Valedictorian of Grammer School, High School & College, which is truly impressive! He could of became anything he wanted to in life, but downhill Skiing was his passion and he ended up becoming the Director of a big Ski Resort in Colorado.

I know somebody who studied undergraduate at MIT, where he did a dual major in neurology and Chinese, apparently with little difficulty. He traveled to Taiwan, where native speakers mistook him for a native speaker, albeit Caucasian. Next he learned Japanese in less than a year, and studied medicine in Tokyo, where he graduated with an MD in acupuncture. Last I knew he was practicing acupuncture somewhere in France…

Why does the professor look like the Austrian painter that attacked half of Europe

This by far one of the best and most interesting videos this channel has put out there. What wonderful stories of real life people who changed the world. Thank you 😊

I would like you to put a name of one of the most amazingly superior minds in mathematical fields who is known as "the man who knew infinity"... S. Ramanujan giving out more than 2500 theorams in a very short life span of 31 years approx. He should have been in the list too... And yeah there are couple of movies on his biography too...