mathematics
5 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 18, 2016 by Alexander Shelley · across every show →
Everything said about mathematics, oldest first
Mar 18, 2016
Music functions like mathematics through formal structures and analytical relationships
“There's actually an awful lot of form in music. It's like maths. It really is like maths. That's why a lot of mathematicians love music as well, because it's all about structures and forms and about relationships.”
May 30, 2017
Sutherland: Hypotheses originate from intuition, not the formal logic used to prove them
“That that's how you've made your decision, or that that's how, now, what happens is, often that's how a good way to justify a decision, but it's imagination that gets you to the hypothesis in the first place. So in mathematics, someone instinctively believes s…”
Jan 7, 2020 positive
Jul 7, 2020 positive
Fry: Humanizing math through historical personal stories makes it compelling
“And I think for me, that's what makes the maths come to light because when you realize how important this stuff is to people, that they know that they're going to their death and still the only thing they want to do, Is finish their mass. I think that's the st…”
Jul 7, 2020
Fry: Math education must focus on basics to prevent working memory overload
“If you're ever going to be able to reach the most beautiful elements of the subject, if you're ever really going to be able to properly to put it to use, you can't have your working memory being swamped by remembering all of these rules and remembering these r…”