Why mathematics? Richard Brown at TEDxJohnsHopkinsUniversity

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  • @H.Priya27
    @H.Priya27 3 роки тому +5

    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! ✨

  • @danpesta4220
    @danpesta4220 6 років тому +13

    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.

  • @Holobrine
    @Holobrine 8 років тому +50

    Math is for understanding. Understanding is beautiful. Therefore math is for beauty. This may be the most profound proof I've ever written.

    • @mohamedazzeddine2175
      @mohamedazzeddine2175 7 років тому +1

      It is simple and somehow profound :)

    • @morgengabe1
      @morgengabe1 6 років тому +3

      So beauty is understand
      Sounds like that "fashionable nonsense"
      :P

    • @StuartFuckingLittle
      @StuartFuckingLittle 4 роки тому +1

      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.

    • @xavierkreiss8394
      @xavierkreiss8394 3 роки тому

      I'm sorry, but this is subjective. As a famous line puts it, "“beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.

    • @Holobrine
      @Holobrine 3 роки тому +1

      @@xavierkreiss8394 Hence why some people don’t see the purpose in math

  • @xavierkreiss8394
    @xavierkreiss8394 3 роки тому +1

    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

  • @smylulula
    @smylulula 8 років тому +6

    the most enlightening talk I have watched!

  • @elidel3299
    @elidel3299 6 років тому +12

    MATH is the gateway to another dimension

  • @aryavijaykumar4700
    @aryavijaykumar4700 2 роки тому

    Thank you all very much

  • @OmerAbashar
    @OmerAbashar 8 років тому +29

    Math rewires your brain and makes you a problem solver.

    • @hitmanekoyslnp8572
      @hitmanekoyslnp8572 3 роки тому

      And overweight?

    • @hitmanekoyslnp8572
      @hitmanekoyslnp8572 3 роки тому +1

      I dont want a job that ill be a mathematician and cant even count my calories and sugar eatesn

  • @siennasmoot4377
    @siennasmoot4377 8 років тому +3

    great rendition of, why math?

  • @coachash
    @coachash 5 років тому +5

    slight disagreement: math != ego satisfaction

  • @vjpillay
    @vjpillay 10 років тому +2

    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?

  • @Pilotaiid
    @Pilotaiid 7 років тому +1

    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?

    • @ChristAliveForevermore
      @ChristAliveForevermore 6 років тому

      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.

  • @linggasanjayaputraputra6294

    I still believe that mathematics is arts

  • @mohamedabdelkader9455
    @mohamedabdelkader9455 11 років тому +1

    Space, time and place charterized the truth in its exterior interior interaction spherical thinking ability
    Of linguistics expression primitive, clumsiness and profound .

    • @crwilso6
      @crwilso6 9 років тому +2

      Mohamed Abdelkader It appears English is not your first language.

    • @jasonclarke811
      @jasonclarke811 9 років тому +2

      crwilso6 pretty sure, you should reread his statement, prose purposefully abstract and astonishing,,,

    • @crwilso6
      @crwilso6 8 років тому

      Jason Clarke If you spray perfume on shit it is still shit.

    • @jasonclarke811
      @jasonclarke811 8 років тому

      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..

    • @jasonclarke811
      @jasonclarke811 8 років тому

      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

  • @teev7
    @teev7 6 років тому +3

    What 😦... Math isn't a science?!😖

    • @IStoleThePies
      @IStoleThePies 5 років тому

      It doesn't use the scientific method. Instead of experimenting, it requires logic to determine truths.

    • @omodiagbedominicedeoghon4607
      @omodiagbedominicedeoghon4607 4 роки тому +1

      Seems to me an art. Like language, it's a necessary tool of art.

  • @unsucks9337
    @unsucks9337 5 років тому

    "...... little bit unique...." at 1.50-ish. Maybe he should learn elementary logic first. Sorry. I'm feeling a little bit snarky today

  • @tabathastaples7884
    @tabathastaples7884 5 років тому

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  • @seanferrari6825
    @seanferrari6825 6 місяців тому +1

    You'd have to be delusional to become a mathematician

  • @crwilso6
    @crwilso6 9 років тому +2

    "we can't separate the mathematical"....yawn

  • @DigitalChaoS
    @DigitalChaoS 11 років тому +1

    That young lady in the front with the glasses is cute :)

  • @Psychokitten113
    @Psychokitten113 8 років тому +1

    I hate maths ....... I hate maths ........

  • @Gringohuevon
    @Gringohuevon 6 років тому +1

    Shockingly bad

  • @CrashRebootL3
    @CrashRebootL3 8 років тому

    you lost me at math is not a science :/

    • @DavidAndrewsPEC
      @DavidAndrewsPEC 7 років тому

      Yeh - that bit sucked - he should have said that maths is not JUST a science.

    • @ChristAliveForevermore
      @ChristAliveForevermore 6 років тому +2

      Math is even better than science. Math is the progenitor of science.

    • @daanishali3860
      @daanishali3860 5 років тому +4

      Math is not a science, it is a language that science uses to describe the world.

    • @neonet310
      @neonet310 5 років тому

      But it isn't. Philosophy and math are the ground in which science stands. And later science is where engineering stands.

    • @cloud-w2v
      @cloud-w2v 4 роки тому

      @@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.