{"id":47504,"date":"2020-02-14T09:10:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T08:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2020\/02\/14\/share-your-knowledge-with-the-world-successful-math-youtuber-daniel-jung-spoke-at-the-steinmuehle\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:49:14","slug":"share-your-knowledge-with-the-world-successful-math-youtuber-daniel-jung-spoke-at-the-steinmuehle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2020\/02\/14\/share-your-knowledge-with-the-world-successful-math-youtuber-daniel-jung-spoke-at-the-steinmuehle\/","title":{"rendered":"“Share your knowledge with the world” \u2014 Successful math YouTuber Daniel Jung spoke at the Steinm\u00fchle"},"content":{"rendered":"

He is a regular guest speaker at well-known companies, but he has never been invited by a school. \u2014 School principal Bj\u00f6rn Gemmer wasn\u2019t willing to let this statement by Germany\u2019s most famous math YouTuber, Daniel Jung, in an article in Deutsche Bahn\u2019s customer magazine stand unchallenged. The school administration and Steinm\u00fchle management secured the \u201cmath rock star\u2019s\u201d agreement to give a talk at Steinm\u00fchle. On Wednesday evening, he filled the audience seats in the forum. <\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t waste time with long introductions in his videos. Daniel Jung gets right to the point\u2014and that\u2019s exactly what his well over 600,000 followers seem to love. It\u2019s not about beauty, fashion, or fitness like it is for countless other YouTubers. Daniel Jung\u2019s passion is\u2014mathematics! Laughter fills the hall as the speaker on the Steinm\u00fchlen stage mimics the way he steps into the frame in front of the camera in his videos\u2014and then steps back out again. That\u2019s how many people who search the internet for solutions to math problems\u2014and find them\u2014know him. <\/p>\n

Born in Remscheid in 1981, Jung has compiled over 2,200 explanatory videos covering topics such as stochastics, systems of linear equations, and other mathematical problems that give many high school and college students a hard time. The videos, each just a few minutes long, are a huge hit on YouTube. His videos have already been viewed over 200 million times. The thank-you comments under his videos speak for themselves. \u201cOh my God, you saved my butt on my final exams,\u201d one comment reads, for example. Or: \u201cI learned more from you in 60 seconds than I did in half a year of math class.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Breaking Down a Generational Conflict<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet this eloquent man in his late thirties, who studied math and sports but ultimately did not pursue a teaching career in the traditional school setting, does not see himself as competition for schools, but rather as a complement: \u201cWe need the structured school environment, \u2018but people aren\u2019t built for 45 minutes of high-pressure learning.\u2019\u201d In addition, it has been proven that an individual teacher can achieve more than group instruction. And: \u201cMy material is accessible from anywhere, at any time.\u201d Daniel Jung, who, among other things, contributes to the platform mathefragen.de and founded the Daniel Jung Academy, sees himself as an entrepreneur. His goal is to decipher \u201cnew learning,\u201d break down a generational divide, and make it clear: \u201cIt\u2019s not just thick books that can impart knowledge\u2014the internet can, too.\u201d
\nWith his approach\u2014projected powerfully onto the Forum\u2019s screen\u2014Jung delivers a thunderclap: \u201cThe way we teach and learn is at a turning point unlike any we\u2019ve seen in a thousand years.\u201d Even statements from dissenters\u2014who demonized educational videos by claiming they were to school learning what Amazon is to retail\u2014did nothing to change this. \u201cWe should meet young people where they already are\u2014namely, on the internet,\u201d said the speaker.
\nHe therefore encouraged students and teachers to use the Internet to share interesting content: “Share your knowledge with the world. It’s fun to help others.” <\/p>\n

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He is a regular guest speaker at well-known companies, but he has never been invited by a school. \u2014 School principal Bj\u00f6rn Gemmer wasn\u2019t willing to let this statement by Germany\u2019s most famous math YouTuber, Daniel Jung, in an article in Deutsche Bahn\u2019s customer magazine stand unchallenged. The school administration and Steinm\u00fchle management secured the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":47518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-stem"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49086,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47504\/revisions\/49086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}