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A truly competent mathematician with an exceptional sense of humor while presenting stuff! Never thought math could be fun during lectures, but I changed my min
by redbell 3y ago
A truly competent mathematician with an exceptional sense of humor while presenting stuff! Never thought math could be fun during lectures, but I changed my mind now.
The experiment at around 2:21 is mind-blowing. We used to see these tricks played by some professionals on TV or during some events, but this is the first time I have seen one from a mathematical background.
- shahar2k 3y agohes a frequent contributor to numberphile! https://www.youtube.com/@numberphile/search?query=tadashi https://www.youtube.com/@numberphile/search?query=tadashi although honmestly most of their mathematicians are lovely people!
- RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 3y agoThis is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGawXjsltc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGawXjsltc
- sudhackar 3y agoTadashi is my favorite from numberphile. The way he presents information makes it so easy.
- alias_neo 3y agoI hated maths in school, had to persevere all the way through my Electronic Engineering degree, and still didn't "like" it, until much later, many years later, when it was no longer academic, but pure interest. I do wonder what a difference it would have made had I had teachers and lecturers half as interesting, humerous, and engaging as this.
- throw_pm23 3y agoI think this is a bit unfair. This is a fantastic talk but it is showing some selected highlights that the speaker is passionate about. To get to that point he must have learned math in some (presumably traditional) way, including parts that must have seemed tedious. This is like listening to Mozart play some playful piece and saying "if only learning piano would have been this much fun" -- there is no shortcut to putting in the time and work to learning the foundations.
- alias_neo 3y agoI see your point, and perhaps some of the reason is that I enjoy applied mathematics more than some of the more general/theoretical stuff. That said, I don't think what I said (or at least what I meant) was unfair; IF maths could have been presented more like this I might have been more interested (and thus learned better/more). Perhaps I just had more of the "dry" maths teachers, and my high school maths teacher was just a bully, so anything he had to say/teach was pretty much starting on a bad foot.
- throw_pm23 3y agoI have to apologize though, listening to another podcast with Tadashi, it turns out his mathematical education was as far from traditional as possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrJCm10ajJw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrJCm10ajJw
- alias_neo 3y agoThanks, I'll check it out!
- hipjiveguy 3y agounexpected, but incredible !