A Proof That The Square Root of Two Is Irrational

Michael: Or is it 2 million people: Literaly creaming themselves

The ancient Pythagoreans would have literally killed you for this act of heresy. They really did not like even the idea of irrational numbers. They drowned the man who suggested that pi might not be some divine ratio like 22/7.

Proof by contradition is like kryptonite for infinity-related questions, isn't it

Who else is here after watching the Terrence Howard video?

Alternative title: Michael having fun doing his hobby.

Rational Ratio I have never realized this and now am freaking out.

I was taught this proof in school yet was somehow still entertained enough to watch the whole video. There is my proof that Michael is an incredible host.

Literally had this as a proof by contradiction question in a maths test and wanted to curl up in a ball

16:05 the music synchs perfectly with the sound of the pencil drawing on the paper this is extremely satisfying

The way you write "8" gives me nightmares. edit 2 years later: You're free to draw the 8 any way you want, it's on me to not have the nightmares ^^ Also... please buy my indie game? I'm poor. Super Hiking League DX. Thank you.

Michael... Can you please pay Terrence Howard a visit.

i really love it when these math videos give me a slight shift in perspective about something that is incredibly common/natural to me-, like, reducing fractions i know in my head that 4/6 is equal to 2/3, easy, and i know that 4/6 can be reduced into 2/3 without changing its value. if you were to ask me why the value doesn't change, my answer would be something like "because the ratio in relation to the numbers stayed consistent, the proportions of 4 to 6 are equal to the proportions of 2 to 3." but here-, michael just gives the simple answer of "since both 4 and 6 can be divided by 2, we can divide this fraction by the fraction 2/2. and since 2/2 is equal to one, this is equivalent to dividing by one, which will not change the value of our number." like-, "huh, that is true-, it is just like dividing by 1, never thought of it like that" it makes absolute sense and shows a different way to describe the same thing-, it's so cool to me.

watches this instead of studying for math test

Michael would be an incredible teacher. Not even just for Maths, he seems to absolutely love learning and teaching

Terrance howard enters the chat:

someone send this video to terrence howard and joe rogan

Let's prove that the square root of 2 is irrational... BUT FIRST! What is a number?

And today my friends we learned that... Binomial multiplication is Michael's favorite

Me in Xth class waiting for the statement " To the contrary, lets assume that √2 is rational. "😂😂

This was the first video I've seen on this channel, and I thought that was phenomenal! My favorite math class in college was number theory. I love this kind of stuff. Subscribed.