Tadashi is spot on with what I'll call "the second exposure effect." I always felt like my math skills were a class behind where I was at. I didn't get trigonometry until I took physics and calculus, and I didn't get single variable calculus until I took multivariable calculus and so on... I think oftentimes students will see someone immediately excel at something they are struggling with and think there must be some deep biological reason for this when, in reality, those other students just had some prior exposure to the subject.
I sort of wrote learned my way through thermo, I didnt really understand a lot of it conceptually, I could just do the problems mathematically. Then when I took a hvac course I understood it all well enough to explain it someone else, I have no idea why.
Math in general for me. I was those “when will I use math?”type kids in high school. After several years, I adopted the appreciation for rigorous studies and that’s when I appreciated math more. Math is such a diverse subject with many instances of real world manifestations. Every new industry and hobbies I get into, I feel like I get a brand new perspective of Math that makes it that much more intuitive.
26:30 (after talking about swearing, and originally learning the concept in France): "If you drop something very heavy on my foot, what comes out is French." I love this so much, and this is a very elegant way to say this.
What an honestly fresh and fascinating view of life and ambition. Really enjoyed this podcast, was planning to fall alseep to Tadashi's soothing voice and watch it again later but I ended up listening to it all in bed. As someone who only really saw math and science as a chore in school your channel has really given me a new love for them so thank you Brady for doing Numberphile(and Sixty Symbols!)all these years.
Although I enjoyed this podcast of a really deep dive into the life of Tadashi, I consider it more of a tribute to the genius interviewing skills of Brady. He is the hero here. Many times during this, Tadashi had said things like ''I shouldn't say this on interview'', or ''I've never said this before in an interview'', and so forth. That right there is the skill of Brady Haran. Anybody reading this feel up to the challenge of interviewing Brady?
Brady is the perfect scientific journalist. There are a couple moment in hello internet that is essentially gray interviewing brady, i think they even said that themselves
49:33 The "jail" vs "gaol" spelling tripped me over too. I never encountered the spelling "gaol" until seeing it in my Grade 12 history textbook. My first reaction was "what is a gaol (gah-ool)?"
WOW! Every time I think he couldn't get more interesting, Tadashi finds a way to blow my mind! What a fascinating dude; I just love the parallels and tangents and unusual connections he sees! I'm so glad he's grown past his shyness, I (and many others, I'm sure) just love listening to him talk :)
Absolutely brilliant stuff. It's been a while since I've been so engaged by a speaker. I'm actually not surprised to learn that he's a language expert, as his command of the English language and just general manner of speaking is phenomenal.
- "being an extrovert or an introvert depends a lot on your environment." That is a revolutionary idea. - "choosing natural things", that are easy for me today. No toxic perfectionism, like I can give up now if I know it's not on my level, and try later.
I just came back from Bordeaux last week. I too had an adventure in France 25 years ago. My company sent me from Mountain View (near Stanford) to Paris for 18 months work. 6 years of German study wasn’t the best preparation, so I dove in land learned French. To this day I can now speak French better than German. And I long to be able to return to live in France and I fell in love with Bordeaux. It’s Paris but more laid back. I too seem to have a similar affliction of “Wanderlust” - I’ve picked up and moved far away several times in my life as my curiosity of life often gets the best of me.
Never heard a Japanese person say cognate English and French words side by side before. That was neat to hear the sharp contrast between the two accents from someone whose native accent doesn't come from either language.
What a thoughtful and highly intelligent conversation! Many many points in this podcast has shine a new light or shall I say granted me a new perspective to some of my own problems. Bravo!
I like it so much when he has this lukewarm attitude towards Noam Chomski. I had the same reservations. On the other hand I really admire Chomski very much.
"I was a clever boy [...] I didn't learn to work until later in my life." Yep... Clever kids out there: you're not as special as you think, and hard work isn't as scary as it seems.
Having to work hard is no indication of how special that person is. You can be special and you would still need to work hard to attain the things that you want to achieve in life. Some people are as special as they think. For some hard work is as scary as it seems and they might just need to settle for lesser ambitions.
Around 1:00:00 he talks about understanding someones work so much easier when meeting the person in real life. it would invoke a question to about him re-engineering the personalities of people like Plato or Aristotle.
Awesome podcast! I might have misheard, but according to ChatGPT, the integral of 1/sin(x) is not log(tan(x/2)). Are there any references to Landau's comments in hospital? Is it an urban myth? On Wikipedia there is another version with circles and crosses.
Thank you very much for this interview, very inspiring! Je ne savais pas que Tadashi était un polyglotte avant qu'il a devenu un mathématicien ! (sorry, couldn't help but write a multilingual comment!🙂)
In fact, adding two fractions by summing numerator and denominator separately will never work. If you have a/b + c/d, with a>0, c>0, and b>=d>0, then a/b+c/d > a/b+c/b = (a+c)/b > (a+c)/(b+d). Okay, you could argue about what happens if b=d=0. And, of course, that proof only works if you already accept the correct rule, but if you know there are no special cases where it does work, you can ask them if they can find any cases where their rule does work. Though you do still need to establish an agreed meaning of what fractions are in order to go on to do anything more with them - without some shared intuition to fall back to, you're just invoking formulas at each other rather than communicating.
Fazer actually used to make pianos and chocolate, not motorcycles. Now they only make chocolate as piano business was sold in 1988. But strangely enough there is also a motorcycle called Yamaha Fazer.
Fazer is indeed a Finnish company that makes chocolates. But they never made motorcycles (except chocolate motorcycles). The Fazer motorcycle was made by Yamaha.
I could listen to Tadashi speak for hours. What a brilliant and inspiring person.
Tadashi is spot on with what I'll call "the second exposure effect." I always felt like my math skills were a class behind where I was at. I didn't get trigonometry until I took physics and calculus, and I didn't get single variable calculus until I took multivariable calculus and so on... I think oftentimes students will see someone immediately excel at something they are struggling with and think there must be some deep biological reason for this when, in reality, those other students just had some prior exposure to the subject.
I sort of wrote learned my way through thermo, I didnt really understand a lot of it conceptually, I could just do the problems mathematically. Then when I took a hvac course I understood it all well enough to explain it someone else, I have no idea why.
Math in general for me. I was those “when will I use math?”type kids in high school. After several years, I adopted the appreciation for rigorous studies and that’s when I appreciated math more. Math is such a diverse subject with many instances of real world manifestations. Every new industry and hobbies I get into, I feel like I get a brand new perspective of Math that makes it that much more intuitive.
26:30 (after talking about swearing, and originally learning the concept in France): "If you drop something very heavy on my foot, what comes out is French."
I love this so much, and this is a very elegant way to say this.
And I wondered at that point in the video, after a hearty laughter of course, does he say "Parden my french" afterwards? 😄
This is a better origin-story than anything Marvel ever managed to produce.
Thank you Brady and Tadashi!
So children's comics are your benchmark.
@ Well, that was a repartee that i wasn't expecting. You had me chuckle. :D
The man, the myth, the legend ...
The math
The toys!
What an honestly fresh and fascinating view of life and ambition. Really enjoyed this podcast, was planning to fall alseep to Tadashi's soothing voice and watch it again later but I ended up listening to it all in bed.
As someone who only really saw math and science as a chore in school your channel has really given me a new love for them so thank you Brady for doing Numberphile(and Sixty Symbols!)all these years.
Thank you Tadashi for sharing your experiences.
Thank you Brady for conducting great interviews.
a brilliant interview view a fascinating and honestly quite inspiring person. well done Brady, and thank you Professor Tadashi.
Although I enjoyed this podcast of a really deep dive into the life of Tadashi, I consider it more of a tribute to the genius interviewing skills of Brady. He is the hero here.
Many times during this, Tadashi had said things like ''I shouldn't say this on interview'', or ''I've never said this before in an interview'', and so forth. That right there is the skill of Brady Haran.
Anybody reading this feel up to the challenge of interviewing Brady?
Brady is the perfect scientific journalist.
There are a couple moment in hello internet that is essentially gray interviewing brady, i think they even said that themselves
"As a mathematician I want to be remembered as someone who worked with Brady Heran on Numberphile" - Prof. Tadashi Tokieda
49:33 The "jail" vs "gaol" spelling tripped me over too. I never encountered the spelling "gaol" until seeing it in my Grade 12 history textbook. My first reaction was "what is a gaol (gah-ool)?"
Fantastic conversation. I cannot regret I did not have these experiences because Tadashi has explained them so well.
Brady and Tadashi soaking in the pool with a glass of wine... Can't say I'm not jealous
WOW! Every time I think he couldn't get more interesting, Tadashi finds a way to blow my mind! What a fascinating dude; I just love the parallels and tangents and unusual connections he sees! I'm so glad he's grown past his shyness, I (and many others, I'm sure) just love listening to him talk :)
I guess he never stopped being a philologist too, given the mathematics is the language of the nature, that we slowly unveil.
True
Absolutely brilliant stuff. It's been a while since I've been so engaged by a speaker. I'm actually not surprised to learn that he's a language expert, as his command of the English language and just general manner of speaking is phenomenal.
Wow! Just wow! What an amazing individual. Thanks for sharing this and all of your many wonderful videos.
Great interview! The story about how Prof. Tadashi turned to hard science because of his encounter with Landau's biography is so funny ~~
- "being an extrovert or an introvert depends a lot on your environment." That is a revolutionary idea.
- "choosing natural things", that are easy for me today. No toxic perfectionism, like I can give up now if I know it's not on my level, and try later.
What a lovely interview!
By the way, I wish I could be paid by Stanford for unspecified "hanging out with friends", ha!
Love this man
I just came back from Bordeaux last week.
I too had an adventure in France 25 years ago. My company sent me from Mountain View (near Stanford) to Paris for 18 months work. 6 years of German study wasn’t the best preparation, so I dove in land learned French. To this day I can now speak French better than German.
And I long to be able to return to live in France and I fell in love with Bordeaux. It’s Paris but more laid back.
I too seem to have a similar affliction of “Wanderlust” - I’ve picked up and moved far away several times in my life as my curiosity of life often gets the best of me.
Never heard a Japanese person say cognate English and French words side by side before. That was neat to hear the sharp contrast between the two accents from someone whose native accent doesn't come from either language.
This origin story is absolutely wild.
excited for this one. I'll have to save it for a little later though.
Humble genius. And he is very good at teaching what he knows!
What a thoughtful and highly intelligent conversation! Many many points in this podcast has shine a new light or shall I say granted me a new perspective to some of my own problems. Bravo!
Now I understand why he always has a slight French accent when speaking English. That always confused me. 😅
Great Interview! 👍
Fr? I can't hear any French accent😂
I can totally relate to what he said about seeing things for the second time and then understanding it. It happens to me all the time.
This man is brilliant
You never did circle back to talking about toys! You'll have to bring him back!
He sounds like a jazz musician!
This is an astounding interview, or should I say, story.
I like it so much when he has this lukewarm attitude towards Noam Chomski. I had the same reservations. On the other hand I really admire Chomski very much.
Love him
We haven’t seen tadashi for a long time... any upcoming videos?
Need to have Tadashi back with more mathematical magic tricks!
This fella is super! ^^
ときえだ先生のビデオが大好きです❤️
BONJOUR TADASHI , CELA ME FAIT PLAISIR DE VOIR TES VIDÉOS, C'EST UN PLAISIR , CYRIL LORENZO , LYCEE GRAND LEBRUN BORDEAUX , ANNEE 1984 1985.
The Yamaha Fazer motorcycle has nothing to do with the Finnish chocolate manufacturer.
Finally!!! Btw we need more Tadashis Toys videos
What a wonderful man
Incredible!
Very interesting, thanks
47:29 worked 8 hours a day doing math problems... crazy
Paperclips and möbius strip : Tadashi = klein bottle : Cliff Stoll
Take pity で理解を示す的ないみなんだ
What’s the book mentioned at 46:14 called?
Высшая математика в упражнениях и задачах - П. Е. Данко, А. Г. Попов, Т. Ч. Кожевникова
@@extensionsorbit7727 Mate, you are a lifesaver! Thanks!
Gripping interview
Most clickable video of all times
they forgor the GRE test 💀
"I was a clever boy [...] I didn't learn to work until later in my life."
Yep... Clever kids out there: you're not as special as you think, and hard work isn't as scary as it seems.
Having to work hard is no indication of how special that person is. You can be special and you would still need to work hard to attain the things that you want to achieve in life. Some people are as special as they think. For some hard work is as scary as it seems and they might just need to settle for lesser ambitions.
@@MrAlRats that's not what I was saying at all. It's not what Tadashi was saying, either.
I have been anticipating this almost as much as the Cliff Stoll interview. 👍
This man is an international treasure, he must be preserved
Head in a jar style?
@ I thought you are a decent man with a sense of humor but you just admitted that you are nothing but a Jackeen.
So much did I enjoy this company that 73 minutes felt like only 5.
He really said hold my beer 😅
Finally interview with Tadashi - the person, who put "ta-da!" in matahs for me!
Swearing in russian 26:45
Landau name 39:47
Professor wrong 55:40 5mins
Difficult problem 1:01:40 4mins
My favourite episode yet! Got me watching his topology lectures on YT!
Around 1:00:00 he talks about understanding someones work so much easier when meeting the person in real life. it would invoke a question to about him re-engineering the personalities of people like Plato or Aristotle.
Awesome podcast! I might have misheard, but according to ChatGPT, the integral of 1/sin(x) is not log(tan(x/2)). Are there any references to Landau's comments in hospital? Is it an urban myth? On Wikipedia there is another version with circles and crosses.
Thank you very much for this interview, very inspiring! Je ne savais pas que Tadashi était un polyglotte avant qu'il a devenu un mathématicien ! (sorry, couldn't help but write a multilingual comment!🙂)
47:11 Wants to learn math in Russian but doesn't know Russian... so he teaches himself lol
yess tadashi!!!
I think math, music and chess are closely related.
Not so much with language though, very much a separate faculty that he happens to have.
@@spellandshieldall very logical, like most disciplines
This is probably my favorite epsiode!
This is so fun
what a remarkable human being
You
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In fact, adding two fractions by summing numerator and denominator separately will never work. If you have a/b + c/d, with a>0, c>0, and b>=d>0, then a/b+c/d > a/b+c/b = (a+c)/b > (a+c)/(b+d).
Okay, you could argue about what happens if b=d=0.
And, of course, that proof only works if you already accept the correct rule, but if you know there are no special cases where it does work, you can ask them if they can find any cases where their rule does work. Though you do still need to establish an agreed meaning of what fractions are in order to go on to do anything more with them - without some shared intuition to fall back to, you're just invoking formulas at each other rather than communicating.
12:12
1:01:01
Fazer actually used to make pianos and chocolate, not motorcycles. Now they only make chocolate as piano business was sold in 1988. But strangely enough there is also a motorcycle called Yamaha Fazer.
Fazer is indeed a Finnish company that makes chocolates. But they never made motorcycles (except chocolate motorcycles). The Fazer motorcycle was made by Yamaha.
Wonderfully inspiring, also to a humanities scholar. 🙏
Great video. Thank you. Oops. Podcast.
i miss his numberphile videos
てぃだしw
Great episode! Loved it.
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DUDE NICE CONGRATULATIONS 👏🎉
Very annoying graphic.