Solve For X

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Math intimidates a lot of us, but it can deliver surprising answers to life's pressing questions. In this episode, TED speakers discuss the elegant simplicity, and giddy complexity, of solving for X. Guests include comic book author Randall Munroe, polymath Terry Moore, percussionist Clayton Cameron and Mathematician Hannah Fry. (Original broadcast date: March 5, 2015)

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0:00.0	Do you ask yourself questions like,
0:01.7	will I ever find love?
0:03.4	Or why is this drumbeat so catchy?
0:06.5	What about how did Tiny Little Yoda
0:09.4	lift the enormous X-wing out of the swamp in Star Wars?
0:13.3	Well, what if I told you the answers to these questions
0:15.9	in a whole lot more can be found with math?
0:19.6	On this episode, we dive into the world of math
0:22.0	and numbers it's called Solve for X
0:24.1	and it originally aired in March of 2015.
0:28.6	This.
0:30.4	Is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:32.9	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:36.6	Ted Talks.
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0:40.7	Design.
0:41.5	Is that really what's 10 for just a minute?
0:42.7	I've never known that.
0:43.4	Delivered at Ted Conferences around the world.
0:45.8	To the gift of the human imagination.
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