So I thought I'd mix it up and do something a bit different, which is what really happened on some of the greatest maths mistakes. And when I foolishly read the reviews on Amazon for this book-- and I should have learnedhaving been honed in YouTube comments-- and I read the reviews.
though it's way after the um the Roman Empire is gone it's the earliest Latin new maths and because the Romans they did lots of things with math but they didn'tactually do the kind of thinking about stuff and um it
And I started writing. Maths . 2013, two years ago.
And one reason why 1729 is special is that it's called a Harshad number. Maths is kind of the same kind of thing, so I love maths .
And also I went to Scottsdale, Arizona to meet Jerome Carter. And the reason I went to meet him is that he is a modern day Pythagorean. And Pythagoras is the most famous name in maths . Pythagoras is also the oldest real person, as in Adam and Eve didn't exist or just ideas that maybe they did, but the person who we learned at school who's the oldestliving person we know definitely existed is Pythagoras. And this is kind of interesting because surely the oldest living person we should be studying maybe in history, but no.
do this about the sort of neurology of it or the neuroscience of it, they say in Japan not that much research has been done on it but they basically say, "Right brain normal maths , left brain," no "left brain normal maths , right brain abacus." What they mean is that our left side of the brain, the left hemisphere, tends to be used for linguisticprogramming, sort of language, numbers, counting, all that kind of thing. And the right side of the brain is the visuospatial skills that we have. So normally we use the left side
is like a huge growth area. You look an Ebay there's all these things that are worth hundreds of pounds is I sought this item here which looks like a hand grenade or a pepper grinder. maths . Maths values other things, deductive reasoning, creativity, sort of conceptual things that, yeah, and in fact CERN were last people where
is like a huge growth area. You look an Ebay there's all these things that are worth hundreds of pounds is I sought this item here which looks like a hand grenade or a pepper grinder. maths and helping the language, whereas here they sort of keep themselves to themselves.
Yeah, you mentioned it. for maths and science.
and biology team now in Oxford, which is realizing, wow, the challenges we've got in biology, there are lots of interesting tools we have in maths which are unexpectedly helpful for gaining insights in biological systems. That's great. Yeah. Maybe we can pivot to talking about two of your most recent books.
Because the UNESCO report said-- I got it here-- fewer than 30% of the world's scientific researchers are women, and women in science, technology, engineering, and maths are published less, paid less for the research, and do not advance as far as men in their careers. That problem statement seems very clear and tangible.
And engineering and medicine are helpful to the world. And maths is helpful to kind of the numerical part of the world. And we might think of differential equations, or solving equations, and calculating things in finance, and science, and business.
in the so the earliest writing that we have is from Babylon we have sort of uniform tablets there's loads of stuff on maths there I mean interestingly there's a lot more stuff we know from Babylon that we do in terms of written material from later civilizations like Egypt because they all had it in stone
And one reason why 1729 is special is that it's called a Harshad number. So maths is pure and perfect, science is impure and imperfect.
And that's what I find fascinating when I was researching Pythagoras is that he's both the earliest name in maths and responsible for maths , but really what he did was he invented anti-maths 'cause he thought that numbers were not just numbers, did not just represent quantifies but also represented qualities. So two was feminine, three was masculine, and five was the union of them both so the most spiritual number.
concerned, dare I say, about artificial intelligence as a leading pioneer in math maths and sort of philosophical thinking? Well, because I'm interested in the bigger picture. Anything
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And so I definitely learned a lot of lessons sort of pre-2000 crash on what not to do in tech startups. So I studied maths . I went into finance, again, pre-financial crash.
And wow. And sometimes, yeah, I have my dog. To be good at maths , it doesn't matter that you get good in English.
And wow. And sometimes, yeah, I have my dog. It's maths . And my older brother, who is seven years older than me,
I mean, I think laziness is often thought of as one of the deadly sins, but I don't think it's a sin at all. And the maths you see-- the physical world needs a moment of creation and a moment of-- mathematics doesn't need that.
I mean, I think laziness is often thought of as one of the deadly sins, but I don't think it's a sin at all. So we weren't-- maths is very weirdly powerful in proving its own limitations in some ways.
I'll be telling you a little bit about the book. It's called "The Maths of Life and Death." But despite having "maths " in the title, there really isn't much maths in there. There's no equations in the whole of the book, actually.
So if you give the absolute risks, then we've already seen this for uterine cancer. I'll do the maths .
I mean, it's a-- a couple of tenths would be a brilliant advantage. You can do the maths . A race is a 90 second lap.
And my first book, which I came and spoke about here previously, was all about hands on mathematics. It was recreational maths . Here's some interesting maths .
It was recreational maths . Here's some interesting maths . Here is how you can actually try a puzzle, build a thing, or somehow interact with it.
The contractor, however, did it in-- because normally you do it in newtons or newton meters if you're doing torque. Because if these maths things go wrong, people do die.
It's not maths . It's about numbers and the way in which we think about and relate to numbers.
Who knows the maths theory?
important, but recent events in the last couple of years have driven me to feeling the need to say slightly more urgent and more, dare I say it, political things about how maths can help us. And this might be surprising, because usually pure maths is thought of as being pure and remote.
But in general, pure maths is often thought of as really only being relevant to applied maths . And applied maths is then helpful to science, possibly, and science is helpful to engineering and medicine. And engineering and medicine are helpful to the world.
And then, that takes us from the real world of things into the abstract world of ideas where more things become the same by analogy. But what pure maths does that we don't necessarily do in normal life is, we make very precise what the analogy is. We don't just say this thing is analogous to that.
I take it that maths in itself, math is wholly an abstract thing.
I was good at maths , I was good at science, and I rolled with it.
I was a maths teacher, ended up using that.
I got to teach maths .
He was maths and the computer to help him solve new problems that he was interested in, in relation to growth and form--
I was good at maths .
But I kind of sucked at everything else. Because he knew maths . He was very good at maths .
This is the maths floor-- very flat.
You just learn the maths on the way.
a year or so going around the world and I went to Japan, which we'll get into later, I went to India, I went to France, went to Germany, always trying to meet people whose lives bring out maths in some interesting way. I went twice to the States but I went across the West Coast, the Midwest, I went to the East Coast.
Pythagoras is really before anyone we really learn in history. Pythagoras is famous in maths for the theorem that bears his name, the square of a, for right angle triangles the square of the hypotheses is equal to square of the other two sides. Turns out Pythagoras probably didn't invent this, certainly is was known before him and the earliest proofs come from China.
is like a huge growth area. You look an Ebay there's all these things that are worth hundreds of pounds is I sought this item here which looks like a hand grenade or a pepper grinder. or person interested in maths you'll ever meet.
Not enough further maths . Most of the further maths and physics is taught in private schools. You know, the state system is just not delivering.
So if they got their maths and engineering exactly right, they could feed an image with spherical aberration through these two lenses to almost completely counteract the effect.
And the emphasis on STEM education, so science, maths , and so on, in India is quite high. I always loved science and maths , moved to the UK and did my high school or A-Levels in physics and maths and then ended up doing a degree in physics because-- this is one of the really interesting things, is even though I actually kind of knew some engineers, including my dad, I never really considered engineering
It's absolutely amazing how effective maths is in the physical world.
Maybe it only ever uses finite maths .