What's the Point of Maths? - with Nira Chamberlain

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3 жыл бұрын

All around the world children, and even some adults, ask the question: ‘What is the point of mathematics?’. The field of mathematical modelling not only helps answer this question, it can help quench the human thirst for knowledge.
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Dr Nira Chamberlain is President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and was the Winner of the Big Internet Math Off title - World’s Most Interesting Mathematician.
Nira has over 25 years of experience at writing mathematical models/simulation algorithms that solve complex industrial problems. Nira developed mathematical solutions within industries such as the defence, aerospace, automotive and energy sectors. This has included periods in France, the Netherlands, Germany and Israel. During his career he has chaired and organized a mini-symposium at an international mathematical modelling conference.
Nira was the highest new entrant in the 2018 PowerList in at Number 5 and holds the title as the 5th Most Influential Black Person in the UK. This is the first time a mathematician has made into the Top 100 Britain’s most influential people of African and African-Caribbean Heritage. He also made the list in 2019.
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@kwanarchive 3 жыл бұрын

Any time you notice a pattern and exploit that pattern to become faster, stronger, more efficient, less wasteful, that is mathematics being used. Any time you notice that something doesn't fit a pattern, and you invent a new pattern to fit it, that is mathematics being used. But it is also necessary to understand what others have done before so as to not get tricked by false patterns, or to spend loads of energy doing what's done before, and that is also mathematics being used.

@srinivasams9323 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for solving the greatest problem I had in life

@88pampa 3 жыл бұрын

Love these talks! Fantastic communicator, thank you!!!

@matthewgiannotti3355 3 жыл бұрын

I love this. Thank you!

@sathyapilai4537 3 жыл бұрын

This was one the best lectures I have ever attended ❤️❤️

@Zen_Power 3 жыл бұрын

Great talk! I strongly believe It is the parents role to enforce the value of mathematics and education in general. For life skills and employment you need to have basic numeracy skills. I was shocked when you mentioned the child’s parents say that mathematics is useless. Completely Poor parenting. The probability of household income being low significantly increases if everyone has poor numeracy understanding. Then follows poverty and increasingly difficult decisions for the family.

@sparrowsparrow7505 3 жыл бұрын

Coming up next : why civilization matters...

@daviddean707 3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you and I was top of my class in math and statistics at UMUC after finding it hopeless at school.

@anaedupaschal3888 3 жыл бұрын

if I wanted to understand and apply mathematical modelling where do I begin ?

@srinivasams9323 3 жыл бұрын

We need rational thinking and numerical literacy at the same time so we introduced maths to school students.

@annieinscotland9751 3 жыл бұрын

On the Jack Sparrow map the East and West sides are the wrong way around! Grammatically 'Why does maths matters' should be 'Why does maths matter', although 'This is why maths matters' is correct. Oh, the joys of the English language!

@antonkovalenko364 3 жыл бұрын

Mathematics are always relevant. Everything is math in one fashion or another. Even a carpenter and musician such as myself constantly uses math in the process of both.

@mtbee9641 3 жыл бұрын

Why all the arguments about mathematics?It just doesn’t add up!

@AhsanKhan1998 3 жыл бұрын

I can't find the root of the problem either

@asgerms 3 жыл бұрын

This video needs to be recommended by the big algorithms.

@evangelosspyromilios5994 3 жыл бұрын

whats wrong with 08:22 ?

@Hangrid1 3 жыл бұрын

I want to know too.

@ashurean 3 жыл бұрын

Mathematics is a way of describing the interactions between THINGS. "Sally has 5 apples and Bob gives her 2 more, how many does she have?" is using the same basic principles that allow us to describe the formation of astral bodies hundreds of millions of lightyears away. It's the same as the calculations used to fabricate new substances for use in pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. It's the same as summarizing the amount of resources imported and exported by a nation in a given amount of time. These are all things that you could hypothetically describe with any language, but mathematics are the ones best designed to do so.

@bobaldo2339 3 жыл бұрын

Math is a helpful grid that we throw over nature, and then measure in various ways the relationships between the points on the grid. No matter how fine the grid gets it is not nature itself. But , since we humans emerged from nature, math is a product of nature - whether we prefer to say that we invented it, or that we discovered it.

@13minutestomidnight 3 жыл бұрын

12:27 Not sure that anyone but mathematicians are going to think that all that advanced computer modelling to find the optimal solution is pretty much the same as "Goldilocks and the three bears." Probably best not to tell a military that that's the solution to their problems, though (maybe just avoid nursery rhyme analogies altogether when it comes to people with guns). He definitely demonstrated how incredibly useful and important maths is, but possibly he might have aimed his talk a bit above the heads of the target audience once he launched into all the modelling stuff (okay, well, my head hurt by halfway anyway).

@irenek7824 3 жыл бұрын

the social distancing example is brilliant

@zamurahanay9067 3 жыл бұрын

Mathematics=Language of Universe 🌌

@ariebaudoin4824 3 жыл бұрын

i dont really get this notion, i feel like mathematics is just our best way to model the universe, not necicairily its language, furthermore, if you ask a pure mathemetician what they think of the math physisists use they will probably say its a bit boring and midlessly calculating stuf with a lot of aproximations, so what math are you talking about when saying this, the physisists math or the mathematisian? (this is an oversimplification ofc, but i hope you get my point)

@viemarch3516 3 жыл бұрын

Not everybody talks to universe everyday though.

@paulmaydaynight9925 3 жыл бұрын

? when did (artistic math manipulation) calculation become experimentation, it's a tool not an experiment, devise an experiment based on the hypothetical math result assuming the algorithms pass basic modified unit analysis ? artistic impression ? see ' Sky Scholar The Black Hole Image - Data Fabrication Masterclass!' and his other peer reviews

@ThisFinalHandle 3 жыл бұрын

I thought I was one of those kids many moons ago. Then I went to technical college and leant to pitch the roof of a house.

@richardwilmotph.d6747 3 жыл бұрын

One cannot do experiments with out measurement which is why we need math.

@micha4014 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe a random idea but why not release those speeches as podcasts as well? At least in my case I love podcasts and enjoy listening to talks like these whilst being underway in a bus or a train. But anyway: great content and thanks for the effort of all of you awesome people!

@srinivasams9323 3 жыл бұрын

Mathematics is the grammar of the universe But remember language was spoken first without the rules of grammar and then we find patterns among language and expand it. - 19 year old unemployed youth

@laurenlewis5945 3 жыл бұрын

👏

@superscatboy 3 жыл бұрын

My goal in life is to be half as cool as Nira's dad looked in his wedding photos.

@wolvenar 3 жыл бұрын

Trouble is with having an AI monitor is how can you be sure that AI will stick to the plan and not just reason that it is working against it's own interests. Or that the primary AI won't see the Obamahood as a threat or inconvenience and remove it as a n obstacle.

@hadiputra2871 3 жыл бұрын

Why nobody recommend this to me.

@tarun.starboy 3 жыл бұрын

Maths provides ANSWERS

@tirocska 3 жыл бұрын

to questions you didn't know you had

@22thevoice22 3 жыл бұрын

You turned off the comments for your polar shifting video and I believe it's entirely relevant to what's happening rn.

@antman7673 3 жыл бұрын

Most people don’t even need mathematics to generate new knowledge. -Common Folks just need it to model their situations to not be fooled.

@ZeHoSmusician 3 жыл бұрын

**Doe lecture on importance of maths 18:18 >.< Can the next lecture be on the importance of spelling correctly and breaking away from elementary mistakes such "might of"? ('of' is not a verb!)

@kunkaan6248 3 жыл бұрын

Students disliking maths is more of a problem about the education system than the essence of mathematics.

@dillonchamberlain 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if we’re related

@wolvenar 3 жыл бұрын

Who else watching 2 videos at the same time at 2x speed lol

@d.e.b.b5788 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone likes to believe that their own favorite field of study, is the most important one. This is proved, by every teacher who assigns tons of homework, while knowing that every other teacher is doing the very same thing, yet tells their students how important it is that they do HIS homework over the need to do the others. Advanced math has no use for the average person; basic arithmetic is adequate.

@WilliamFritz3511 2 жыл бұрын

It has every use and the only reason you're even able to type that comment or watch this video.

@WilliamFritz3511 2 жыл бұрын

Everything subject and field is important but math is prominently more superior. The language of the universe the building blocks of physics as well

@renzox1136 3 жыл бұрын

Mathematters

@Rabbit-the-One 3 жыл бұрын

Math matters because we ARE math. Or wait, do we... huh?

@JohnyG29 3 жыл бұрын

maths*

@McQuokka 3 жыл бұрын

Is this for real? Is it April 1st? No. Huh?

@maveluck 3 жыл бұрын

Jeene keliye math zaroori nahi he

@user-mg1hz2qm8k 3 жыл бұрын

IS ARE TO PROVE BIBLE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT

@antonylawrence7266 3 жыл бұрын

Too many ads

@Phoenix_Core 3 жыл бұрын

wrong

@anderander5662 3 жыл бұрын

Why do Brits call it maths??.........is that plural .?

@ZeHoSmusician 3 жыл бұрын

The subject is 'mathematics', not 'mathematic'... However, the expression "do the math" could potentially make sense if you would consider 'math' as being short for "mathematical calculation"...

@RottnRobbie 3 жыл бұрын

So the question is... how many times can one person say "so the question is" in a 54 minute talk? Sorry - but no matter and no matter how important the subject may be, and no matter how great a mathematician Dr. Chamberlain may be, he is not an effective or interesting speaker.

@jomangeee9180 3 жыл бұрын

I wanted something to show my kids, 50+ minutes is way too long for their attention span, can you condense this video to 3 mins?

@hexerei02021 3 жыл бұрын

lol

@manla8397 3 жыл бұрын

Mathematicians never give up. Every human beginning on Earth is a mathematician. If you give up watching, you are not human being.

@marolibez 3 жыл бұрын

SO... SO... SO... Sorry, I couldn’t make it till the end.

@wolvenar 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting video.. I love how you used Jack Sparrow to help explain the math. But wait, what happened to the left saying "Math is racist"

@JohnyG29 3 жыл бұрын

maths*

@snekmeseht 3 жыл бұрын

Will someone please explain to the English that the plural of math is math.

@spartamerican6758 3 жыл бұрын

Its math, not maths. This is the only thing other than Zed where we add letters for no reason.

@jayboy8325 3 жыл бұрын

Here in UK we've always said maths

@bazsnell3178 3 жыл бұрын

Oy vey, math, schmath, maths, schmaths.

@superdudecarter 3 жыл бұрын

Maths, short for mathermaticS. Not mathermatic ;o)

@JohnyG29 3 жыл бұрын

Wrong. Its maths, not math.

@spartamerican6758 3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnyG29 nope, only in the last 15 years did that word even appear in America. Just like Zed, as I said.

@JUSTaCringeChannel 3 жыл бұрын

It's called math not maths!

@bernardofitzpatrick5403 3 жыл бұрын

Brits say maths. Americans say math.