The Language of Mathematics (1): Introduction

[bentodd1]

I love your style of teaching!

[MrBigEnchilada]

lots of symbols in math...and those symbols really make you get a headache.....

it really is like reading another language, the good thing is that you dont have to write the word out you just have to write the symbol.

[yonatanalemayehu]

Math is really a love able subject.

[amannvig]

THANK YOU

[chychochycho]

you're welcome.

[varial05]

Wow I can't even explain how much you just inspired me haha. Thank you so much brother! On another note, where are you from I noticed some kind of accent you have, hawaii, samoan, islander of some type?

[chychochycho]

Canada :)

thanks for the kind words as well, inspiration does go both ways.

Peace.

[kurtcomet]

Thank you so much for this! I really got inspired to try and take up math again! just for the purpose of personal interest. I am 33 years old. and have tried to find a math tutor that would guide an adult. but havent found one. But now i found your videos! You communicate in a great and unique way! I simply love this!! What you do is great!! :D

[chychochycho]

You're very welcome, and thanks for letting me know. I have to admit, it really does make me feel good knowing that the Vids are having a positive effect. Peace :)

[ghoulardi]

My favorite part is, "Boom" It was an Epiphany, It just became ridiculously easy, It just made sense. I went back to the beginning and it just became easy. I was baffled that I didn't understand it before. (I hope I feel like this soon!)

[SSNietzsche]

@axxle000 hahaha thats actually what im going to try right now!! =D

[juicerooster]

whats with the intimate, close-up shots and smooth, quiet talking? i feel like he's trying to seduce me.  math is the language of love!

[Skandalos]

Great video.

I dont think the main culprit for the deterioration of education in the western world is government or funding issues, in fact we spend waaaay more money today compared to say 30 years ago but despite of this we achieve ridiculously bad results. ATM I make a living giving private lessons in math and comparing the stuff they do today with the stuff my generation did 30 years ago the difference is really huge.

It think it is a degeneration process that happens to the west.

[PInuts4eva]

math=the world

[rodfrost3]

I was listening to a lecture about how just as waves and the tree lines can be measured as fractals, ( why shouldn't our way of thinking move in the same way ) emphasizing on synchronicity as this re-occurring pattern in this fractal.

your thoughts: ?

[chychochycho]

I would need a little more info about what really it is that your referring to, especially regarding synchronicity, that said, if your meaning is that is it possible that everything has occurred before and is occurring Ad infinitum at the moment, possibly. We don't know. In Cosmos, Carl Sagan mentioned a tribe in India that believes the universe has gone through a lot of collapses and growths, and this moment is just one of them. This is also a theory in physics. Cool thoughts fractals are :)

[rodfrost3]

@chychochycho it was this lecture from a podcast ( psychedelic salon/ entitled the worlds soul), and it was a lecture with Terrance Mckenna and Rupert Sheldrake. I find synchronicities seem to point in certain directions. apparently it was named a fractal because its nature of being fragmented/ irregular/broken, its seems as an interesting aid/r in personal change

[chychochycho]

Terence McKenna rocks :)

[refill1234567]

i smoked weed once and maths made sense ever since

[MITHWORLD1]

I like this

[johanhendriks]

You assume the only numeral system people will ever encounter is base 10.

You state there are exactly 10 different numbers (0-9).

I disagree, for example the hexadecimal set uses 16 numbers (0-F)

[chychochycho]

sort of agreed, but we are talking about high school math right now.

as for the hexadecimal set, 16 is made of of 1 and 6, if you really want to pick at the details. No?

[johanhendriks]

@chychochycho

No 16 digits, as in (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E­,F).

As for the number 16 being made up out of the digits 1 and 6.

Octal for 16 would be 20, hexadecimal would be 20.

My point is, there's no unambiguous amount of digits that's needed to display a quantity, it depends on the base you use.

Binary would only be the digits 1 and 0.

I know this is highschool math you're teaching, and the phrasing you use makes it easier to understand, but less correct in my humble opinion

[chychochycho]

I had to start somewhere, and 0-9 was the best place to begin this.

One day hopefully I'll expand on this, but it will have to wait until I get to my first destination, a series on calculus.

[ultimatespider17]

Mathematics the language of god

[FeelOfFriction]

What do you think of Chaos Theory?

[chychochycho]

I love the concept, but I'm not familiar with its intricacies.

Have you ever watched Star Trek: Voyager? There is an episode where Seven of Nine encounters a chaotic entity which is in perfect order. To her and the Borg race, this entity is god.

It's been a long time since I watched that episode, but i remember it reflecting my thoughts about chaos, that the universe is chaotic in nature, but through this chaos, order is achieved. I sort of went geek on you here, sorry for the diversion :)

[josephgreen2008]

Hi thanks for posting .

Do you think that when someone reaches as certain age then they will never become competant at maths?Or do you think its limitless and can be learned at any age?

[chychochycho]

Math is timeless/ageless/limitless. It can be learned at any age.

[tokuanimecitvguy]

Haha they made us watch this at college! Seriously don't film in your bedroom! It looks so creepy! "Hello,welcome to the bedroom!"

[chychochycho]

Serious? What college?

as for looking "creepy", cool :)

[tokuanimecitvguy]

Well I'm doing Media but the Government are making us do Maths.

[chychochycho]

Everything is math, including media. Really pay attention when you guys hit probability and statistics.

[Israe5l]

mathematial language is analytic (depends only on meaning of the terms) while other languages are synthetic (depends on outside facts).

[chychochycho]

interesting, can you give an example to clarify?

[Israe5l]

Safe to say, mathematics and logic are analytic. While synthetic are for example "dogs have four legs". Other kind of statement such as "a bachelor is an unmarried man" becomes a bit foggy. There may be social factors involved.

[chychochycho]

thanks for the example. I'll have to look into this further.

[KKinsane2009]

I agree with --> (press more info) I live in the uk though, I have been teaching myself things for around 3/4 years now, and i've found so much more than was described in schools. I once asked my math teacher "where in real life can quadratic equations be applied?" and got the answer "in your exams" if that gives you an indication of the problem. teachers just want to teach you what they have been told to, nothing more nothing less. they get bonuses based on percentage of grades aswell. in uk.

[kinggimped]

Found on Reddit... will be downloading the torrents. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I've always sucked at maths (I'm definitely far more linguacentric, even basic trigonometry was a mystery to me years after I had been taught how to do it), and have wanted to improve almost since the day I gave the subject up... these videos will definitely help!

Thank you!

[chychochycho]

i hope they do, it's a beautiful language.

and Reddit rocks, a great community :)

[popper252]

Thank you so much for your time and contribution to the community. Education and knowledge is absolutely priceless and I look forward to watching your videos.

[Furaton]

2:05

love it!!!

[chychochycho]

:-)

[aroguegurklis]

I agree completely. I've always been on and off with mathematics. Awesome some years, horrible in others. When I decided to take Calculus I this year, I was a little worried. I really wanted to attend an engineering school and shape the world in which I live. I began practicing my basic math skills over the summer. Then I started doing derivatives. Then integrals. Then, suddenly, it came to me. Math finally made sense to me in light of calculus. Math brings me joy and peace now.

[mfatah281]

Excellent, thanks for your work!

[chychochycho]

my pleasure mfatah281 :)

[dashc72]

Chychochycho, I find that though I understand the concepts, I have problems in two areas:

1. Applying the concepts in real life situations

2. Silly avoidable mistakes.

Do you have any insight into how I can get over this.

[chychochycho]

I make a lot of silly mistakes so unfortunately i haven't figured out how to avoid that yet. All i can say is that when the problems get more complicated i make less silly mistakes, probably because i'm more interested in them.

as for applying the concepts in real life, i plan on making videos on this. I already have a few in mind that should be interesting. Hopefully i'll get some of them done this summer.

[epshot]

You're high.

[chychochycho]

did the lighting throw you off? stay focused on the words, and just for the record, no i'm not. I just like to be as straight up as possible and share as much relevant info as i can.

[metaforazero]

Hello Chycho. I live in Colombia, South America. I work as an EFL teacher, but underneath I am a full time dilettante. I think the many faces of life are so inspiring that it would plain silly to fall in love with just one of them. I love the way you share your passion. Somehow I feel that mathematics has multiplied my many universes. THANK YOU¡¡

[chychochycho]

math has definitely expanded my universe, that's for sure... and for the record, it's my pleasure, i enjoy making these videos and learn a lot from putting together a series :)

[LightWarrior2000]

Chychochycho, while I understand that it's helpful but is memorizing your times tables manditory for finding the product of a prime number? I'll be watching your videos but I'm trying to study for my college classes and I'm struggling and I looked over my math book and looked at alot of math videos here.

[chychochycho]

it's really important to know your times tables ... once you begin to use them, you won't have to memorize them, you will just know them.

a little work in the front end will save you a lot of time on the back end.

[LightWarrior2000]

I'm....or was/is....a "speical needs" student. I spent years trying to memorize my times tables and it was something I could never grasp. Sure I can count it all and stuff but it just takes longer. But I could never memorize it and fell behind in math as a result due to being tought to memorize my times tables.

[malcolmbryant]

I am at this very moment teaching my 7yo granddaughter her times tables and impressing upon her how much trouble it will save her in the long run. Thanks for your help,

[chychochycho]

i hope she listens, it will definitely save her much much much trouble in the long run :)

[darkalligator]

Its the most difficult language, maths are my nightmares, life could be so different to me if i just can know them. :(

[szlamx]

Visually apealing (how do you spell that!?!?!?), but just that.

[chychochycho]

spell what?

[szlamx]

appealing - never mind

[danoking69]

Do you do Sacred Geometry?

[chychochycho]

i've done some research into it and will hopefully cover some of its concept in the future, but that's quite a ways away yet. Maybe after this set that i plan on doing in the next few weeks, so that would put Sacred Geometry into 2009.

in the next few weeks i plan on talking about units, variables, functions, and then touch on some intro calculus. hopefully that's the way it works out :)

[Zepfreak90]

is it just me or does video seem really scketchy

[luisfigo7et10]

There is a maths language but maths is not a language!!!

And i don't think that maths are important because of communication, but because they can solve problems in life and can someone reflect and understand much more about the situations he can be facing.

Understand the others is more an empathy no relation with maths.

[24Adrian24]

I find it so funny, that someone would be so negative about another's effort and then I go to their page and its filled with soccer videos..lol....to the Author, thanks for this series, i for one definitely appreciate.

Hate is a language too, spoken by those with no self esteem...stop hating!!!!

[iljanosj]

Thank you for this video. You really made a difference for me. I'm now going to watch them all...

[Michel290389]

WoW. I agree. This is inspirational.

[wtf01s4]

Man you're really inspirational.

[Wheehud]

You are absolutely correct. We cannot have democracy without knowledge to go along with it.

Thanks for the video.

[radurak]

cool, i like it. :)

You make it quite easy to follow you because one can immediately see that you're really into it and like math, so what's better than learning something from someone who loves it?