199 - Math Without Numbers - Milo Beckman

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🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this episode we explore the weirdness and wonder of Math Without Numbers with mathematician Milo Beckman who wrote a book about the math behind multiple infinities, strange topologies, and extra dimensions, all without using numbers to explain some of the most fascinating and complex ideas that usually only make sense when scribbled in strange notations on a blackboard. Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	Welcome to the you are not so smart podcast episode
0:27.2	what 99 this is one of those episodes that's just a conversation without any goals
0:48.8	in mind and it really does it we just kind of go everywhere it goes off the
0:53.6	rails quite a bit but that's because the conversation is with a mathematician and I rarely
0:59.7	get a chance to talk to someone in that discipline the mathematician is Milo Beckman who wrote a book
1:05.1	titled math without numbers this is a fun weird quirky new book with lots of pictures in it that
1:11.5	really does explain everything from extra dimensions to multiple infinities to advanced topologies
1:17.3	and other very high-minded mathematical concepts without using any numbers at all it's just about
1:23.4	the ideas and the implication of those ideas and that seemed like something I would love to talk
1:29.2	about and we do go onto a lot of multiple tangents and so it kind of sounds like one of those dorm room
1:36.5	conversations except in this one the people don't just know only the things they can look up on
1:41.3	Wikipedia one of them is a true expert in the in the field of mathematics and I think you're going
1:46.5	to really enjoy this so here it is the conversation with Milo Beckman the author of math without
1:53.3	numbers
2:20.8	let's let's talk about math
2:23.3	I'm a very verbal person.
2:25.7	Yeah, and math does not make intuitive sense to me.
2:32.1	I remember taking like the ACT and the SAT,
2:35.1	like I scored, you know, a perfect score
2:37.8	on the verbal parts of it,
2:39.4	and then the math stuff was a struggle,
2:41.0	like so I had to.
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