Mathematical Thinking Can Open New Worlds
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
You might think you're not a "math person," but maybe that's because math doesn't mean what you think it means. Mathematical and logical thinking can open up new ways of thinking about everything from social and political issues to art to even gender. And on this episode, Dr. Eugenia Cheng, author and Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, explains how to tap into it.
Additional resources discussed:
- Dr. Eugenia Cheng (Official Website)
- "How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics"
- "Beyond Infinity: An Expedition into the Outer Limits of Mathematics"
- "The Art of Logic in an Illogical World"
- In Defense of Polymaths | Harvard Business Review
- Toni Morrison's tweet about writing books
- Why Don't Figure Skaters Get Dizzy When They Spin? | Scientific American
- The Brutal Neuroscience of Figure Skating: How Spinning Athletes Overcome Dizziness | LiveScience
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| 0:00.0 | The famous five are away on a splendid weekend adventure. |
| 0:03.5 | Do we have to go home today? |
| 0:05.5 | sighed Anne. |
| 0:06.5 | I agree said Dick. |
| 0:08.0 | Even Timmy looks sad. |
| 0:09.5 | Cheer up everyone. |
| 0:11.5 | Beams Julian, I booked long weekend tickets we can return anytime on Monday |
| 0:17.0 | Oh you are clever Julian said Anne save over 50% with the long weekend a ticket from Great Western Railway. |
| 0:24.5 | Adventures start here. |
| 0:26.0 | Selected routes turn supply, saving in comparison to an anytime return fare. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm curious, what is so exciting about math? |
| 0:36.0 | For me, what's exciting about math is that it satisfies my curiosity and feeds my curiosity, |
| 0:42.0 | so it's great to be talking about curiosity. |
| 0:45.0 | Because for me, math is not about getting the right answers. |
| 0:49.0 | It's not about right and wrong and it's not solving problems. |
| 0:52.0 | It's about asking why repeatedly and never being |
| 0:56.0 | satisfied with the answers and always asking why again and asking why again and I'm basically |
| 1:01.9 | that two-year-old who never stops asking why. Hi, I'm Cody Golf with the possibility exploring Curiosity.com. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm Ashley Hamer, and today we're going to change the way you think about math. |
| 1:21.8 | Every week we explore what we don't know because |
| 1:23.9 | curiosity makes you smarter. This is the Curiosity Podcast. You might not think |
| 1:30.2 | you're a math person but maybe that's because math doesn't mean what you think it means. |
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