Why mathematics? Richard Brown at TEDxJohnsHopkinsUniversity
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Richard Brown is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. However, it wasn't until after he completed his undergraduate studies in architecture that he chose to enter the field of mathematics. Brown is the editor of the book 30-Second Mathematics and has been awarded and nominated for multiple teaching awards.
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The way he talked about math is the same as how I feel about math. I really wish our teachers had the same thoughts as him! Amazing human he is! ✨
A very enlightening talk - beautifully delivered. My grand son asked me, “What do mathematicians do?” I didn’t have a good answer. I do now. Thank you.
Mathematics makes life easy
the most enlightening talk I have watched!
MATH is the gateway to another dimension
Math is for understanding. Understanding is beautiful. Therefore math is for beauty. This may be the most profound proof I've ever written.
It is simple and somehow profound :)
So beauty is understand
Sounds like that "fashionable nonsense"
:P
Ignorance is bliss too. Understanding isn't always necessary for something to be beautiful. Why I might get emotional over art or music cannot be explained scientifically or mathematically.
I'm sorry, but this is subjective. As a famous line puts it, "“beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.
@@xavierkreiss8394 Hence why some people don’t see the purpose in math
Looking at this for the third time. I can say with total sincerity that I never experienced that "oh" moment that Mr Brown is taking about.
Only years of torment, with periods of boredom punctuated by moments of panic and fear. The reason for boredom was simple: if you don't understand what the teacher is sayng, you stop listening and wait for it to be over.
Since school I have had a career as a journalist. I have avoided maths, apart from a few episodes when I tried to understand a point in maths, out of curiosity. Friends have tried to help me. One gave up after six weeks of exchanging emails and messages. She said she couldn't help because she didn't understand how my mind works. I said that it was reciprocal.
One thing that has helped is the knowledge that many people feel the same way
great rendition of, why math?
Thank you all very much
Math rewires your brain and makes you a problem solver.
And overweight?
I dont want a job that ill be a mathematician and cant even count my calories and sugar eatesn
If magic, or a branch of magic was controlled by math, and I don't just mean 1 to 10. I'm talking very beginning math.
1 and 2 math. Just as you're trying to decide what the value of Hand, or Fingers/Toes/Foot/Legs/Arms/Head/Body/and even 'I' is on up...
As though you were following magic based on math as math itself evolved...
What would that be like?
Why?
It's a question I've been asking myself for a while now.
If magic was based on "Blank" Discipline, what would that be like?
It is said by the most ancient of mathematicians (early Egyptians for example) that mathematics was designed and given to humans by a god of wisdom, music, art, and mathematics, named Thoth.
I just think that's a fascinating mythological introduction to all of the things we can tie mathematics too.
slight disagreement: math != ego satisfaction
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Wonder if all of 50 topics in the book- 30 seconds maths been explained to non mathematicians in less than 30 minutes in the past?
Space, time and place charterized the truth in its exterior interior interaction spherical thinking ability
Of linguistics expression primitive, clumsiness and profound .
Mohamed Abdelkader It appears English is not your first language.
crwilso6 pretty sure, you should reread his statement, prose purposefully abstract and astonishing,,,
Jason Clarke If you spray perfume on shit it is still shit.
Language, semantics, etc not important, but you have to be smart enough to realize you don't speak the language but understand the meaning fully regardless..and how that comes to fruition to be truly intelligent..
Being nit picky doesn't mean your listening or have failed to understand...I love it when I see something that people label as "SHIT"..because if you look at it objectively, their may be a profound truth spoken or unspoken beneath it...for instance just this morning I watched something a fee years old about the white van speaker scam where these guys would sell you crap electronics from China for way too much money..but what is funny is that although made cheaply in China the reality is today people buy this cheap stuff at Walmart for similar prices and they know it comes from China..the scams where only a sign of what was to come..but you couldn't of seen that if you simply labeled it a scam and a fraud and closed the door of inquiry to it....be intelligent enough to keep your mind open to all that exists..it all has purpose
I still believe that mathematics is arts
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"...... little bit unique...." at 1.50-ish. Maybe he should learn elementary logic first. Sorry. I'm feeling a little bit snarky today
What 😦... Math isn't a science?!😖
It doesn't use the scientific method. Instead of experimenting, it requires logic to determine truths.
Seems to me an art. Like language, it's a necessary tool of art.
That young lady in the front with the glasses is cute :)
"we can't separate the mathematical"....yawn
I hate maths ....... I hate maths ........
Shockingly bad
you lost me at math is not a science :/
Yeh - that bit sucked - he should have said that maths is not JUST a science.
Math is even better than science. Math is the progenitor of science.
Math is not a science, it is a language that science uses to describe the world.
But it isn't. Philosophy and math are the ground in which science stands. And later science is where engineering stands.
@@neonet310 Philosophy and mathematics are not natural sciences (e.g., biology, geology, astronomy, chemistry, physics). However, in the broadest sense of the word 'science' (i.e., the systematic study of domains of knowledge), philosophy and math can be deemed branches of science.