Just funny looking back on the comments. @PAPARAW. Someone has serious problems with Asians :D Jacob Bronowski, even in the elegance in the way he speaks ; he is just simply a genius
If God exists, He wants us to learn these types of truths of His creation. SAD to see so few views compared to crap videos about Dan Brown Hollywwod propaganda, religion & illuminati mysticism enslaving the minds of people.
Science leads to discovery of Truth and only Truth (not Faith in man made delusions) leads to God.
PAPARAW, how come there's no influence of Asia when Greece itself was largely based in Asia , and is still influenced by Asia? Where's Troy, in Europe? No. What alphabet are you using, the Roman? No, one based on the Phoenician alphabet.
You're moron to negate what's commonly known. Kudos to your ancestors anyway.
@LMB222 uuumm..the Roman alphabet derives from the Greek alphabet..hello?? so does the cyrillic alphabet..plus the Greek alphabet is not entirely based on the phoenician..Phoenician along with Greek merchants developed the Greek alphabet..in fact Greeks added some vocals to it..dont try to lecture anyone while ur an ignoramus urself..
anyway ''Troy'' is not a part of modern Greece,its in modern day Turkey but its only one breath away from the Greek islands...
This cretins comment symbolizes everything wrong with You Tube. A brilliant scientist and humanist like Jacob Bronowski can have his memory sullied by some idiot. Tell you what papa,write a few dozen books,influence a few thousand students as he did,then shoot off you're big fat mouth.
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thats bulshit.there was no infuence from asia.shame on bronowski cause he knows that mathematics was created only by greeks and geometry also, and there was no element of mathematics in asia
lol what have you got against asians? every culture influences eachother, and there was no mathematics in asia? didnt some chinese kid, discover "pi" = 3.1415...to like 10 digits when he was 13 or something like 2000 years ago. youve got problems paparaw, you have no knowledge of asia, especially since you said "there was no element of mathematics in asia".
I are probably a victim of a nationalist view of the world. Yes, greaks did had a great influence over the western culture, but they didn't invented all from scratch. The so called Pythagoras Theorem was know to the ancient mesopotamians and egyptians by the year 2.000 BC. Back then this was considered to be a theorem about areas. Please do not take my word for granted. You have a lot of fabulous resources about mathematics history on the internet.
The geometry was actually created by egyptians who needed a way of (re)calculating the positions and size of their lands after the nile river annual flooding. The element of mathematics in asia first appeared in Mesopotamia. Actually the zero concept was introduced from the mesopotamians by Aristotle, after campaigning with Alexander. Please read some books on the history of mathematics.
I just finished Carl Sagan's "Dragons of Eden," in which he bookeneds his ideas with the ideas and quotes of Jacob Bronowski, who died when I was two. I hadn't heard of him until recently. This series looks remarkable, and there are obvious inspirations for Sagan's later work on Cosmos. Wonderful.
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Pathagarus 5 months ago
Simply extraordinary.
freezzertime 1 year ago
'Bruno' is the don!!!
ljs888 1 year ago
Waw Impressionanter Demosntration of the carre of the hypotenuse}}
jmdanunes 1 year ago
BRILLIANT!
mitchel3939 1 year ago
Just funny looking back on the comments. @PAPARAW. Someone has serious problems with Asians :D Jacob Bronowski, even in the elegance in the way he speaks ; he is just simply a genius
dainbranage 1 year ago
Wow! That was incredible! Thank you for sharing this :)
uhhuhcheckit 1 year ago
If God exists, He wants us to learn these types of truths of His creation. SAD to see so few views compared to crap videos about Dan Brown Hollywwod propaganda, religion & illuminati mysticism enslaving the minds of people.
Science leads to discovery of Truth and only Truth (not Faith in man made delusions) leads to God.
sebas28mtl 1 year ago
THEORY!!!!!
xXelmarcoCFCXx 1 year ago
i wish i`d had him as my math teacher!!
petroniaskho 2 years ago 4
Yes...brilliant.
OneHeart52 2 years ago
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math comes from jewish sources...how else would you work out how much interest your owed?
diggsdad 2 years ago
"Aah"... :D
theyerdahl 2 years ago
Brilliant, and a fascinating demonstration of that principle as well., thanks!
alchemistra 3 years ago 6
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PAPARAW 3 years ago
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PAPARAW 3 years ago
PAPARAW, how come there's no influence of Asia when Greece itself was largely based in Asia , and is still influenced by Asia? Where's Troy, in Europe? No. What alphabet are you using, the Roman? No, one based on the Phoenician alphabet.
You're moron to negate what's commonly known. Kudos to your ancestors anyway.
LMB222 3 years ago
@LMB222 uuumm..the Roman alphabet derives from the Greek alphabet..hello?? so does the cyrillic alphabet..plus the Greek alphabet is not entirely based on the phoenician..Phoenician along with Greek merchants developed the Greek alphabet..in fact Greeks added some vocals to it..dont try to lecture anyone while ur an ignoramus urself..
anyway ''Troy'' is not a part of modern Greece,its in modern day Turkey but its only one breath away from the Greek islands...
ElectraofMaced0n 7 months ago
@ElectraofMaced0n Read again, and this time try to UNDERSTAND what I wrote.
LMB222 7 months ago
Elegant. No other word for it.
docchara 3 years ago 3
We all have the right to be born ignorant, but I believe Paparaw abuses the priveledge to be that stupid. Tosser.
jackrc18 3 years ago 8
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PAPARAW 3 years ago
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"the babylonians build their gardens according to the pythagoean theroem "
this guy is a joke.some ppl try to prove that pythagoras had some kind of infuense by asia by saying ridiculous things
PAPARAW 3 years ago
This cretins comment symbolizes everything wrong with You Tube. A brilliant scientist and humanist like Jacob Bronowski can have his memory sullied by some idiot. Tell you what papa,write a few dozen books,influence a few thousand students as he did,then shoot off you're big fat mouth.
ComradeAgopian 3 years ago 3
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thats bulshit.there was no infuence from asia.shame on bronowski cause he knows that mathematics was created only by greeks and geometry also, and there was no element of mathematics in asia
PAPARAW 3 years ago
lol what have you got against asians? every culture influences eachother, and there was no mathematics in asia? didnt some chinese kid, discover "pi" = 3.1415...to like 10 digits when he was 13 or something like 2000 years ago. youve got problems paparaw, you have no knowledge of asia, especially since you said "there was no element of mathematics in asia".
Moleasian 3 years ago
I are probably a victim of a nationalist view of the world. Yes, greaks did had a great influence over the western culture, but they didn't invented all from scratch. The so called Pythagoras Theorem was know to the ancient mesopotamians and egyptians by the year 2.000 BC. Back then this was considered to be a theorem about areas. Please do not take my word for granted. You have a lot of fabulous resources about mathematics history on the internet.
ovidiufs2 3 years ago
The geometry was actually created by egyptians who needed a way of (re)calculating the positions and size of their lands after the nile river annual flooding. The element of mathematics in asia first appeared in Mesopotamia. Actually the zero concept was introduced from the mesopotamians by Aristotle, after campaigning with Alexander. Please read some books on the history of mathematics.
ovidiufs2 3 years ago
I watched this as a yuongster and was hooked! His whole series was amazing at the time. My Mum's friend was his PA.
pinkange23 3 years ago
What a beautiful proof!
kjlg74 3 years ago
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Pathagarus 3 years ago
Thank you for posting!
I just finished Carl Sagan's "Dragons of Eden," in which he bookeneds his ideas with the ideas and quotes of Jacob Bronowski, who died when I was two. I hadn't heard of him until recently. This series looks remarkable, and there are obvious inspirations for Sagan's later work on Cosmos. Wonderful.
Colorscheme 4 years ago