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Math is also developed by curiosity, and just pure abstract reasoning as well, so there's lots of ways it works.
Math Encounters (2017)
On the whole, mathematicians don't have a particularly great image.
Math Encounters (2017)
Sudoku and Killer sudoku are basically the same maths as scanning. [If you solve Killer sudoku you are using the math of tomography.]
Math Encounters (2017)
Why is America such a powerful nation? Because you could reliably sail your ships to Europe and sell all your stuff, and that reliability came from navigation, and that navigation relied on math.
Math Encounters (2017)
I'm going to show a picture of a mathematician... that has changed your life profoundly more than anyone I could possibly think of.
Math Encounters (2017)
Mathematicians have changed the world.
Math Encounters (2017)
So this is error correcting, which brings us right up to date with the information age, sending huge amounts of information around the world, sending stuff around with Google. Absolutely fantastic.
Math Encounters (2017)
One of my other talks... is about the math in The Lord of the Rings and all the maths that was used for that, because... they used lots of mathematicians there.
Math Encounters (2017)
The great triumph of maths around... 1690 was the development of calculus... and calculus is now probably the best tool that we have in math to tackle the problems of the real world.
Math Encounters (2017)
So one way to get to America was that you would sail from England on the same latitude, and when you got to something big that was probably America, or possibly Canada.
Math Encounters (2017)
The way maths is used... has... changed enormously, essentially in my own lifetime. ...The whole thing has changed remarkably, largely because of the develoopment of computers.
Math Encounters (2017)
What is often called pure math, which is maths developed for interests only, suddenly finds applications in remarkable ways and leads to whole new technologies. Google was invented by two mathematicians who are now very wealthy. Let that be a lesson to us all.
Math Encounters (2017)