On June 10, 1854, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann gave his classic lecture on curved space.
Riemann was a 19th century mathematician from Germany. His landmark lecture included a workable definition of how someone might measure the curvature of space. In the first part of his talk, Riemann asked the question of how we might define an n-dimensional space. This resulted in the definition of Riemann space and laid the foundation for the field of Riemannian geometry. Next, Riemann discussed the dimension of real space and what geometry one should use to describe it. The lecture was extremely successful even though Riemann's ideas were so advanced that only few could truly understand them at the time. The lecture was published two years after his death in 1866, and is considered one of the most important works in geometry.
Riemann was a 19th century mathematician from Germany. His landmark lecture included a workable definition of how someone might measure the curvature of space. In the first part of his talk, Riemann asked the question of how we might define an n-dimensional space. This resulted in the definition of Riemann space and laid the foundation for the field of Riemannian geometry. Next, Riemann discussed the dimension of real space and what geometry one should use to describe it. The lecture was extremely successful even though Riemann's ideas were so advanced that only few could truly understand them at the time. The lecture was published two years after his death in 1866, and is considered one of the most important works in geometry.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:03In 1854, Bernard Riemann spoke his classic lecture on curved space.
00:08Riemann was a 19th century mathematician from Germany.
00:11His landmark lecture included a workable definition
00:14of how someone might measure the curvature of space.
00:17In the first part of his talk, Riemann asked the question
00:20of how we might define an n-dimensional space.
00:23This resulted in the definition of Riemann space
00:25and laid the foundation for the field of Riemannian geometry.
00:28Next, Riemann discussed the dimension of real space
00:31and what geometry one should use to describe it.
00:34The lecture was extremely successful,
00:36even though Riemann's ideas were so advanced
00:38that only a few could truly understand it at the time.
00:41The lecture was published two years after his death in 1866
00:44and is considered one of the most important works in geometry.
00:47And that's what happened on this day in space.