Mathematician Moon Duchin answers the internet’s burning questions about mathematics. What actually is an algorithm? Is it possible to explain Pi (π) in words? Is geometric group theory just Anabelian topology?? Moon answers all these questions and much, much more!
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I thought that was Edward Furlong 😂
I got to go to a lecture by Professor Duchin at my university and it was really great!! She is just as interesting and and accessible in person talking about spanning trees as she is online!
I'm a Computer Science college student, we learn a good amount of math, can confirm you don't market yourselves well. There are indeed many mysteries, many things being discovered etc which is cool but really almost noone realizes that. And yeah, people don't hear about Mathematicians
Moon Duchin's Erdős number is 3.
I feel like I'm cheating on Hannah Fry 😅😅😅
I love Moon, and now I love two Moons. What a wonderful person. I had awful math teachers and only during law school I've discovered my knack for it and and my liking for how I can use it to describe things about world that interest me. Years later and I just got through my first MATH book, which seemed bloody impossible when I was in high school being berated in pre-calculus. 1Blue2Brown has woooondeeful videos for visual learners, about math and they just made me fall in love with math even more. It's never too late to arrive at your potential.
0 should be a prime number because it can't be divided by itself. Making prime numbers before over 1 is stupid to me.
That minsky's product region theorem, can someone direct me to some sources possibly a good video, I didn't find anything correctly explaining it on YouTube
There are two ways of introducing mathematics:
1) write gibberish that NOBODY — NOT EVEN MATHEMATICIANS — can ALWAYS understand clearly and correctly.
2)SHOW WHAT YOU MEAN — draw a picture and describe in words what to do, which is something EVERYONE MUST ALWAYS STRIVE TOWARDS to understand any language clearly and correctly, including those in mathematics.
For way 1) see 8:00
For way 2) see 8:13
Also note that after 5:54 she says "this is like fancy geometry…. you can't tell 'cause it looks like a bunch of sums and squiggles"…. only professional mathematicians are habituated to deciphering them instantly to UNCOVER THE GEOMETRY.
We should always remember that math equations are Morse code that need a lot of deciphering.
The nil potent model of geometry at 11:00 is the most accurate picture of life and the universe, because it captures just how many parts are actually involved in interactions that generate our experiences (TOO MANY TO COMMAND). Very little of this model is perceptible to individual humans in the rush of life. ab = baC. New stuff and surprises, good and bad, are part and parcel of life.
You can definitely tell who she votes for
THIS IS SO GOOD!!!! I don't "do" math anymore but after watching this, I kinda miss it.
About blockchain, vending machines Test rather than point of sale machines
Elliptical is a good word, maybe not z-curves
Oh my god… I am a stupid person.
I was okay when Math was numbers. I held on when they started adding in the alphabet, but when they started adding in the Greek alphabet I noped right out.
Way to redefine what I thought math was – great video and great teacher!
why is every question in this video have some sort of woke or progressive spin in it?
Why am i unable to figure out what she wrote at 8:44?
I have done BE in EEE.😢
Super cool lady! Congrats on getting her to explain stuff.
But is -2 even since it is an integer lol
When comes "Theology support"?
if you change the order of operations the maths keep being consistent you just have to change what need parenthesis and what doesnt, it doesnt really change any axioms or anything its just a protocol made so we can comunicate more consistenly
"Data for black lives"
"A question both deep and profound
Is whether a circle is round.
In a paper by Erdos,
Written in Kurdish,
A counterexample is found."
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