There are 10 kinds of people - those who understand binary and those who don’t.

Are math jokes funny? Sum times.

Black + Greene = entertaining learning with a PURPOSE. More of these two together. PLEASE. Thanks for sharing...

I love professor Brain Greene he's so smart, I feel adrenaline rush every time I watch him.

WOW! I stumbled across this and was blown away. THIS was FAR better than I could have imagined. Faith, wow you are the best at presenting these speakers I have ever seen! I was amazed to see you sit back and let them go without interjecting into the talk that so many others would have done. Subbed and rang that bell!

Dr. Greene is correct with regard to the Mayan numbering system. It is base 20.

When Mickey Mantle retired from baseball, the Yankees tried bringing him to spring training to work on improving their hitters. The Mick was one of the greatest hitters in the game so they thought he might be able to share some of his wisdom of the art. Unfortunately it didn't quite work out. Mantle was a "swing and hit it" batter who's instincts and intuition and innate skill were enough to be successful without analysis. It just came naturally to him. I think that the"problem" with math education is that people who, like Mantle are naturally gifted in math tend to become the math teachers. To them it is all so intuitively apparent that they have a hard time understanding why others can't see what's right in front of their face. The gifted math teachers are those who can use examples, diagrams, parables and fables, analogies or whatever it takes to turn on the light bulb over the learner's head and teach them to see math in a relatable way.

I was just thinking towards the end of the video “I hate how interviewers have these great guests but put then on a time limit” End of video: HEY guys theres a part 2! Me: Oh hell yes!!

Great choice of guests.

One realisation I had as a mathematical modeller was that it would be utterly impossible to make a 100% accurate mathematical model of even just one field. Reality is so rich and detailed that no computer would get even close to handling the amount of information needed to describe what's going on. This really gives me a sense of awe in the same way that thinking about how big the universe is does.

Prof Greene is spot on on the education of mathematics. I was lucky in that parents taught me math by tying it to the world around me, as I did my children.

I accidentally came over this video. I must say, this is a most wonderful show! The Simpsons, science and other ideas of the world!

This is a brilliant channel, it is a disgrace that so few people follow it 😱

I wish ANY of my math teachers had explained to us that math is a language used to express absolutes not subject to interpretation. I wish they told us how it's used to describe the universe. And I wish they had told math jokes, and made it interesting, instead of boring us to death. I had one algebra teacher in college, who had the passion of Brian Green. I'd only had a smattering of algebra before, and it had left me bewildered. I didn't get to finish that semester due to a screw up with my grant application, (they'd lost my check for the application fee) but I never forgot her enthusiasm for math. Her class was the only one​ in which I actually understood algebra, and was really learning it.

I'm so happy the algorithm showed me this channel!

Music can be thought of in base 7 (diatonic) or base 12 (chromatic), although we typically use mod 12 or 7 because of perceived octave equivalence.

Brian Green is right about Maths describing the universe AND this insight missing from the classroom, when I first saw strange attractors form on my computer screen from very small uninteresting functions I punched in I was giddy, I felt like I was getting the joke somehow.. Everything complex could be very simple at heart. And years later it still gives me an insight into a lot of things. Also from making physics engines for games using vertex integration, I got insights (for instance about torque and friction) that I had never had in 6 years of Physics classes. That whole kinematics seems so clunky and awkward now. And years later I explained to a friend who taught Maths how that worked, because he couldn´t figure out how to tell the class about billiard balls bouncing off each other in an understandable way. You can very easlily calculate those angles and forces using little more than + and - and iteration. The problem becomes laughably simple if you can just look at it as an algorithm. Anybody can understand it, but we teach the hard and outdated (and quite useless) stuff. That´s not instilling love for original thought, that´s a rockband that´s still playing their classics at 70 years of age.. Don´t get me wrong.. It´s nice to listen to the classics from time to time in the background, but teaching can´t be all elevator music.

I'm fairly certain it was either the Sumerians or the Babylonians who used base 8 (aka octal). (Edit) So I looked it up. Sumerians/Babylonians used base 60 (!). But there were some native Mexican languages that did/do use base 8. (Supposedly they counted on the spaces between their fingers.)

I am loving this channel, some how got hooked on to it,

Introducing grade school children to fractals could raise their interest in math. The bends of a branch are repeated over and over, for each branch, all the way down to the veins in the leaves. Those same fractal patterns are found in our bodies as well. It's possible to detect cancerous tumor extremely early due to the fractal pattern of the blood vessels which feed the tumor. As Brian stated, there is an entire universe which opens up with math as a tool.

Subscribed.....wonderful show

I was touched by math and science the same way as being pure, finite and were always there. We discovered not invented them. The Einstein quote is the answer to the question I've had in my head since I was child (1st grade).

Two of my favorite people. Loved and laughed with this clip! 13:50 is why scientists are not politicians, it can be a blessing and curse at the same time.

what a tremendous funny and importand exchange of ideas! so funny and very interesting!

I like these 3 together. They should do more. Interesting.

I was always great at math, but I was in my first year of engineering school when I finally understood why math is important. It was like a burning bush.

"When am I going to use it" is a red herring. Because you learn to read at school, and you have to read to get anywhere in life, people assume maths (and every other subject) should have the same applicability. The point is you don't *just* learn to *read*, i.e. work out how to put words together from letters: you - amongst other things - learn to comprehend, to assimilate information, to concentrate for extended periods, to make logical deductions, and to infer information. Similarly in mathematics you learn precision, more precise logical deduction, and how the world works. You also develop your imagination. Amongst other things. People who have no math have limited skills in many of those departments. The interviewer touched on this when she asked about "using" math to understand and experience life. The answer, if the question is applied and understood correctly, is *ALL THE TIME*, in every aspect of your life, from the moment you get out of bed to the moment you fall asleep. Because mathematics describes the way the world works, it is so much a part of everyday life that you don't even realise you are "using" it all the time. Probably the most convincing argument for studying maths: just remember every flat-earther failed and/or dropped out of high school maths. You cannot be a "flattard" if you just pass maths at the school-leaver level.

I hated solving math problems in school, but when I began the write computer programs using algebra, It all became very clear. I've often said that algebra was the answers, not the problems.

"y=x^3" "Are you being sarcastic?" This has never happened.

wonder full...I was great in math old school math ...in school bad at spelling ...Great interview,I have never seen Lewis so calm...Thank You keep up the show...

i havent watch the video still but i know this is going to be great i mean brian lectured my special relativity class and is my fav physics educator and lewis is my second fav comedian of all time (rest in pieces george, entropy got ya), how can this be any less then epic, amirite or what?

I couldn't agree more. You have the best and the brightest. it is a tough one, but you prepared well. so you survived. Kudos to you.

I was taught HOW to solve equations, but not WHY I SHOULD solve equations. Basically, we were taught to memorize, not learn.

I'm glad to see that Professor Crawley is enjoying Oxnard.

When I was a frosh back in college ,one of my math professors talked historically about the Greeks having 4 impossible math problems back in their day. While the prof was up at the board explaining them,I walked him through solving one of them (something about bisecting angles from what I remember). How looked at my logic and said you solved it. Then said if you send in this answer to some national Math society ,it's like a $25 buck prize. At that time in my life ,I really didn't give a rats ass about anything and blew it off as too much trouble I had a cousin that was a math whiz at Pitt that after graduation got a union job at Westinghouse. Made much more money than most of his professors. Society really doesn't care for intellectuals. Just ask all the starving adjuncts.

I feel the TV shows "Numbers" from CBS, and "Cosmos" and "Nova" from PBS do a wonderful job of showing the importance and the language. "Numbers" would solve criminal cases by showing how math gave you the variants and possibilities and patterns while the math genius wrote out the equation. He would show you where the parts of the equation applied and how it physically dealt with each aspect. Watch it sometime. It was awesome. :O)

From Wiki: The Yuki language in California and the Pamean languages[1] in Mexico have octal systems because the speakers count using the spaces between their fingers rather than the fingers themselves.[2]

Homer becomes a math genius, if the equation involves food.

Spot on about education and maths with regards to taxes. The education system seems to be the same over here in UK too.

Octopi would use base 8 if they did math.

Even though she called Alexa "Alexis," my Echo Dot started blathering on about something.

Wow, this has got to be the first time ever that I have seen Lewis Black not getting all worked up about a topic. 😂

If I put a full comment in here it would run to at least a page. I will say, though, that for those who don't catch on to math very well, thank God for Martin Gardner!

The Mayan numbers are in the background and they don't know its base 20? Also you can use Mayan as base 10 or base 12 or base 16 or whatever and it makes multiplying and division much easier because you can use it as a "written abacus". Its also more efficient in terms of short-term memory, so it could be possible to multiply huge numbers in your head.

I studied up to third degree calculus. From this experience, allegorically, I learned everything about a hammer. I did not learn what it was for. I did not learn that that hammer was used to pound nails. A worthless exercise. Poor teaching. The use of the tool was lost on us. I invented a game where I was marooned on a desert island, and had to figure π out 20 places to escape, and finally got series. I built a really great deck off the back of the house. Knocked the Egyptians off their asses. Algebra II. Great trig. Strings, and levels and batter boards. All Math. When am I going to use Math? When I plan to execute something. I wish I knew why I did calculus, other than to get into med school. I'll bet I could use it. Still, there is not a day where I do not look at the world, and use numbers and their relations to add beauty to what I see.

Great conversation. I disagree with Brian on one point: when Lewis asks why can't math be more like language and allow minor errors like screwing up a verb test, I disagree with his premise entirely. Approximations are essentially the equivalent of getting a verb tense wrong. We round for calculations and build oversimplified models for simulations, but we do it because it gets the point across without unduly diluting or skewing it. We both introduce and tolerate errors when we do things like that, and we'll continue to err until we understand the 'language' of the universe well enough to avoid it.

Roger Penrose gives Witten a strong competition.

I like the Feynman quote, but, it was between Zorthian (an artist) and Richard at a strip bar in Pasadena, where each was teaching the other his area of expertise. Feynman learned to draw naked woman. I have a napkin he drew on. And no I won't sell it!e

Taxes use arithmetic primarily, which is a tiny subset of mathematics.

"Do you two have the same mother?" lol

She kills all the magic.

When I read up on the history of mathematics I really began to gain an appreciation of it. I'm still sorely lacking in skill at it, but I'm no longer afraid when I come across it.

Math is absolute, it's the perfect science .

Average people's Math = Arithmetic based Scientist's Math = Logic based

it's the english of tax forms that are frustrating, not so much the math, tax forms are pretty much addition subtraction and some percentages, but the way forms are laid out and the way questions are posed - and why the hell we are doing this - that frustrates. art and literature in school gets taught badly too, but greene hits the mark, it's enthusiasm and imagination that get left out of math subjects, and it's the tests we hate, not the sitting around debating what the implications of math are. when i was at school we listened to music and discussed drugs and sex and life in general in the art room, but math and english was fine, but the goal was to pass a test. soon perhaps, with the likelihood of AI accelerating, maybe we will be able to just sit around in school and discuss and experiment, rather than slave to pass tests.

Man, She is very Good in asking Questions.

Math is the language of the universe, no one will explain that, you need to have the curiosity to venture out and discover it. All schools will and can teach you is show the doors for many worlds, it’s your curiosity, bravery, stupidity etc that will help you opened the doors and go exploring.

US tax forms are easy to use because the IRS's Forms and Publications Division has transformed the mathematics written in Congress speak into a algorithms whise flows are governed by the lines on the forms.

10:20 Ok, but does he understand instructions from IKEA?

Brilliant!

That first one is more of a Rebus puzzle than a joke.

Apply set theory to this: "All puddles are dogs but not all dogs are puddles." ? ? ?

they are so adorable. Love from nepal, Brian Greene.

I have three questions about M theory Eleventh dimension theory How many geometric shapes are in the Kalapi-Yao space How many geometric shapes? The second question is Will these different geometric shapes give different laws in physics? Will you give different universes in laws? The third question about membranes in M ​​theory All calabai-yao spaces are membranes in M- ???? Please send my three questions to space scientists

Rick and Morty, I believe, has surpassed The Simpsons and Futurama because they've built on them with the newest science. There's a whole running question in the main plot line that involves neutrinos (the neutrino bombs made by Rick throughout the series).

4:05. Why am I watching this? Was Lewis chasing some tail and follow the hostess onto the set?

Maybe one problem with maths education is that the examples in which the maths are applied are not very relatable for many students. An example from primary school comes to mind with two cars racing towards each other at different speeds and the question being when they will pass each other. I don't remember having a driver's license back then

Sitting here kissing my thumbs screw base eight!

After being treated like a moron for about 12 years by my family and teachers, my mother ( in the process of training to be a special education teacher) realized that I had certain learning disabilities. My reading and language comprehension had always been above my age level. I loved history, science and geography, music. But math class was a horror fest. All through my schooling I was unable to cope with arithmetic, never mind calculus or geometry. Fractions? Decimals? Nope. Might as well be hen scratches. My mother finally sorted out the evidence in her head, ( she had been a teacher for over 20 years at this point) applied her new special ed training, and told me I had learning disabilities. So, despite what my family had been telling me for years, I wan't STUPID and LAZY. No, I had brain trouble. As my mother put it, I had "bridges out" between my right and left frontal lobes. I have the organizational ability of a rabid cow, I can't write an essay to save my life, I need a calculator to do basic arithmetic, my spatial judgement is ludicrously inadequate, my hand eye coordination could win comedy awards, I have only a vague notion of how logic works... In short, I am profoundly unable to manage higher level thought. And yet I managed to get two university degrees, and worked in retail/ customer service for years. There are people who think I'm smart. I know I'm not. Because all through my childhood and teen years I was told that if you can't do the math, you're an idiot.

22:30 I think she fell in love 😂

so much better just to let them boys have a discussion, IMHO.

Brian Greene says that mathematics can describe our reality, but that may not be entirely true. We use mathematics to make models of reality. One definition of a model is that it is a simplified representation of something. We don't know if we will ever be able to create a mathematical model that gives a one to one description of reality, even though such a model is the holy grail that physicists are looking for.

Lewis Black nailed it.

"where do all the neutrinos go, long time passing" when will they ever learn.

math puns are the first sine of madness 😏

11:06 " ...a scattering..." I'm sure he didn't see the joke at the time butt really

The British wordplay and recreational mathematics expert Leigh Mercer (1893-1977) devised the following mathematical limerick: 12 + 144 + 20 + (3 x Sqrt4 ) ------------- + (5 x 11) = 9sqrd + 0 7 (Math fonts not in my collection, so excuse the letters used for adaptation, here. Original has none.) This is read as follows: A dozen, a gross, and a score, Plus three times the square root of four, Divided by seven, Plus five times eleven Is nine squared, and not a bit more.

That escelated quickly

E equals m c square is one of the equations of many. How to view and base a theory and deriving principles and technology is a new way of mathematical model. But who is going to propose such things.

You want a challenge? Read his "The Fabric of the Cosmos"....

What is purple and commutes? An Abelian grape.

idk any math jokes. do they go like: a constant and a variable walk into a bar... or maybe the punchline's like: ...theorem? damn near killed 'em!

Actually Lewis Black in India children are taught tax calculation in high school as part of statistics. Actually in India after High school it is not taught as tax calculation is too easy to be taught in senior high school. Also Jesus and God have 5 finger to point to the statement "Only God is perfect".

People are told that math is hard so they have a preset aversion backed with no personnel experience. It's not that hard right up to college level. Think of it as a puzzle to solve like those twisted up chrome wire and wood puzzles to take apart and put back together. Algebra is just a bunch of puzzle pieces that you can build puzzles or reduce the complex to pieces, reorder the pieces and see whatever piece of information you are missing. Cross multiply, cancel out common pieces, add up and subtract common pieces, divide and multiply in a small set of a few simple rules. How many nails are in that house if you only know the average house 2x4s and nails per 2x4 are in it. Put the problem in variables and move them around to bring out the how many nails in any house or houses and put in the numbers and solve the puzzle. How many eggs in 7 cakes if you know how many in one cake? You figure out miles per gallon. Percent raise. You do Algebra all the time without realizing it.

Re: Neutrinos apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180716.html Sometimes when I'm walking I dream I'm being taken for granted It's then that I clearly imagine The day that you take me for granted You said, one day you're going to realize You really have no sense of yourself And with no way to take it back You'll get frozen in your tracks Frozen in your tracks Sometimes when we're talking I feel like you're not even listening It's then that I clearly remember Rarely ever seeing you listening You said, when you going to realize You really have no sense of yourself There's no way to take it back You've been frozen in your tracks Simpler than the rest You don't do stupid games You're not more complex You don't lay 'violent blame' Tonight I was walking Feeling alone on this planet When all at once something stopped me I realized I'd taken you for granted And tonight I realized I really have no sense of myself No way to take it back I am frozen in my tracks I'm frozen in my tracks Frozen in my tracks

I would give a different answer to why they teach math to kids who will never use it. It's for the same reason that whenever I go to a restaurant for the first time, I want to see is the menu before I order my meal.

Octals used in computer science are base 8.

The best comedy was slapstick comedy during the silent film er.... "Pi in the face"..

nice dancing

If you take the time and trouble to really understand mathematics and not just mechanically manipulate symbols, you start to understand reality. You find that everything is related to everything else, so there are no independent variables. You understand that all the "real" problems in science and engineering calculations are simplifications.

I didn't learn shit in elementary through high school.

The type of flexibility Black is talking about belongs to Jazz Improvisation, and maybe comedy improv. or what you do when you fudge a line during a stage play. It doesn't belong in a mathematical equation. If you mess up an artillery coordinate, you could fire right next to your own troops.

Trying to figure out higher math, to me is like trying to learn Mandarin by seeing it written in Chinese,

We need to teach APPLIED math in school.

You need a teacher that really loves math to be able to pass that on to his/her students...

Science!

Of course the follow through is 60 - nighn! ie. (retirement).no - in order to turn it into retirement (fine), you heisenBerg it. Which can be done by simply reinforcing the script with any number of ref's toward Fein (man)

Edward witten

Brian Greene looks and sounds a lot like Harry Sheerer

The Mayans did have a base 20!