Tom Lehrer- That's Mathematics

[4ingP]

Both top comments from the same person?

Come on, people, can't someone else be clever?

[TheI1505]

so tru it almost made me cry

[sadhustar]

@TheI1505

Pah-leeese, don't cry for mathematics!

I mean it's extremely usefull and the song is very entertaining and true but for fuck's sake!... :)

[31415equalspi]

what album is this from?

[pedonbio]

I guess three Republican candidates visited this page.

[SedanChair]

@pedonbio I'll bet Mitt Romney sings this song to himself when he shaves.

[thecaboose51]

Somebody help me! these numbers keep chasing me... i can't get away!

[squizzage]

tap your feet do this song while singing along to this song making sure your harmonizing

[caroldporter]

JUST LOVE this!

[ParadoxicalParody]

If I knew what time it was on the moon I could...?

[propertyofranger]

Mathematics really is stalking me o_o

[cavejohnsonful]

Ah, Tom's combining his two major fields of expertise: singing and mathematics. And he's the best at both, of course.

[TESfan123]

When you know how much money you owe, you're Jesus.

[VeraciousAmI]

A song for non-intellectuals or 5 y/os? How about, a song for people who appreciate the application of math in all things? Or just like intellectual songs, even?

[GeeLyria]

"You just can't get away from Mathematics!"?? What a nightmare!!! Lol Joke, joke. I enjoyed the song. ;D Even if it's for non intellectuals or 5 year olds. ;] Mwuahaha!

[ihatecolereynolds]

Tom Lehrer is the best person in the world.

[RaidarStudios]

"A song for all the non intellectuals"

Hmm... do you know me?

[nrox7]

Tom Lehrer is awesome. 

[BoureiNoAkuma]

Hmm. If you counted for a year. Let's see, if you counted a new number every second and didn't pause at anytime during that year (impossible), the equation would look something like:

60*60*24*365 (presuming we don't take leap years into consideration) = 31.536.000. So you would count to thirtyone million, fivehundredandthirtysix thousand.

[ASKaPHYSICIST]

I like the remake from Mos Def

[Thefourthdoctor96]

I'm pretty sure that the whole "phyisics is applied maths, etc.," has been around longer than xkcd's comic. I saw basically the same thing in Richard Feynman's book, "Six Easy Pieces," when he was talking about the relation of physics to other sciences (except he went into a lot more detail). The content of "Six Easy Pieces" is taken from Feynman's lectures on physics that he gave in the sixties or something. So, yeah, I think it's been around for a while.

[UnableToBleed]

NOOOO! NOOOO! I'M SURRONDED BY MATHEMATICS! NO! GET AWAY! GET AWAY FROM ME! H-how many characters left? How much did I type? AH, HELP ME! T-T!

[Mullahgrrl]

@UnableToBleed Don't panic, mathematics is just a way of perceiving stuff, try viewing things as politics instead.

[UnableToBleed]

@Mullahgrrl LOL, thanks, but that won't help me rise above the C i got in maths T-T!

[scoobydoorocks10]

i looked up the lyrics on a website, and he left out a line after the bet and debt part:

Andrew Wiles gently smiles

Does his thing and voila.

QED we agree and we all shout horrah,

As he confirms what Fermat

Jotted down in that maragin

Which could've used some enlargin'.

[ElizabethLarkings]

How is harmonizing math?

[scoobydoorocks10]

@ElizabethLarkings hes trying to fill to make the song catchy

[ghostlymoooo]

@ElizabethLarkings You play/sing in very specific intervals, the 3rd, 5th and octave usually (plus inversions so I guess the 4th and 6th count also). Occasionally you get other notes too, but they're rarely improvised in anything but jazz and even then, it's generally the 7th. You could argue that you just feel the pattern and make it up as you go along, but that's what all mathematicians do - feel the pattern and work with it.

How isn't it maths?

[joshy2205]

just shows how much maths is used in life

[scoobydoorocks10]

@Phillipandmvp, there is a lot of mathematics involved in physics. For example, the formula for speed, a proven physics topic, is Distance, which is mathematics, Divided by time equals distance. also, in some physics formulas, you must know area or volume, another mathematics topic.

[beamerball666]

interesting

[valdas0]

It's to catchy to stop listening... And if actually stop listening this song it will not help because as I said it's catchy.

[talliloo]

came across these vids. had forgotten how funny and how untimely tom was-what a hoot! makes me think that i should learn a few for guitar and share them when the opportunity comes along! i love all kinds of satire/parody from tom to al. keep 'em coming!

[misfittastic]

@animerox1341 i actually had no idea that came from xkcd at the time i wrote it i just heard it some where btw i think it kind of older than that cause ive heard it a few times over the years.

and to everyone else its a comment i put up while half asleep please dont take offence from it

[Hedonophobia]

@Zix484 The words maybe, but not the function.

[awe130]

NWO we are watching you!

Peace to you

[Baritonenclarinet]

If you assign every letter of the alphabet a number, a is 1, b is 2, ect., and you take all of the values of the word "MATH", and add them, you get 42. So math is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. 

[Wizepie]

0_O my math teacher sen tme here

[mabarry3]

Have you ever been outside a school and seen a "Children at work" sign? Wouldn't that be classified as... Child Labor??

[mabarry3]

I always wondered how much gold you could hold in an elephant's ear!

[elflordbob1]

@mabarry3

omg i thought i was the only one

[purenrgclubpenguin56]

in my math class, my teacher turns this song on and whenever we hear it, we know what to do :)

[mabarry3]

@purenrgclubpenguin56 What does that mean exactly?

[purenrgclubpenguin56]

@mabarry3 lol to get our math stuff out :)

[mabarry3]

@purenrgclubpenguin56 Oh. Thank you. I thought it would be like "class is over" or something.

[MsAphrodite1000]

Love it lol

[Denon3333]

Say, where were the below lyrics?:

Andrew Wyles gently smiles.

Does his thing and voila!

QED,

We agree and we all shout hurrah!

As he confirms what Verma.

Jotted down in that margin, which could've used some enlargin.

[mabarry3]

@Denon3333 That was when he was 70, and if you watch that video, he explains why he says that. This is the original

[maryam101kikiki]

everything rhymes!

[tomos160]

@maryam101kikiki what about orange?

[mabarry3]

@tomos160 Hmm ... A sarcastic one we have here!

How about silver? Purple? Many colors don't rhyme with anything.

BTW I'm very sarcastic and when I try, I can be serious (when I really try, I got a headache from writing this one comment ;) it went away now o.O (here comes the sarcasm again !!)).

[MrSpockify]

Sorry to double post, but I just noticed something... Where is the Andrew Wyles section?! lol

[JayashriV]

@MrSpockify: Wiles, btw. :-D

[MrSpockify]

@JayashriV Woops! lol

[AlexSh789]

@MrSpockify Here's the thing, the version you hear here is the real published version. The part with Andrew Wyles was an addition he made for "Square One TV", and a "mathematics festival ... set up by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". Check out: [YT.com]/watch?v=X6uyPL46Vi0 for a complete explanation by Tom Lehrer himself. It's in the description.

[AlexSh789]

@MrSpockify Even more conveniently, I posted the video as a video response to this video. Check it out!

[MrSpockify]

Infinity.... Vicinity.... Genius.

[musiclvr96]

I am not a fan of math as much i wish it was its not my strong suit, so im sitting here trying to do this homework that i am having trouble with and i have a final coming up but my teacher desides to finalize that date today and were taking it in 4 days and guess what im lost. so now im listenening to this to try to get a laugh.

[soccerlvr8221]

i like the old youtube....  :(

[legodude5566]

@soccerlvr8221 same

[IsaReggie]

i less than three this XD

[goldiloks08]

this song is very true. and that's why having dyscalculia SUUUUUUCKS. i would know.

[misfittastic]

physics is applied maths,

chemistry is applied physics

biology is applied chemistry

and life is applied biology

therefore life is maths

[soccerlvr8221]

hahaha! :)

[42connorzielinski42]

hm... thats actually a really good way to put it. math is the only undeniable thing in life.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

I believe Chemistry is not applied Physics...

It has a physics of it's own.. it's not like Newtonian Physics..

It's about chemical bonding and depends on type of structures..

[Fireicee1]

@ArchitectOfEvil

But that's still considered physics, my young chap. Physics just isn't motion; it's electricity, light, motion, heat, sound, basically every phenomena we encounter in life. And that includes the substances that make up our world; i.e chemistry. In fact, physics is regarded to as the father of sciences, since basically all other science is a form of physics.

[TheCodedMonkey]

@Fireicee1

But it's still just applied Mathematics:

xkcd [dot] com [forwardslash] 435

(Youtube doesn't like URLs in comments)

[sesshypuppysbff]

@misfittastic I TOTALLY AGREE! VERY CLEVER!

[hylke45]

@misfittastic

like that you can get everything

school is working

working is labor

child labor is illegal

so school should be illegal, don't you agree?

[mabarry3]

@hylke45 Here's a better one:

School is children working

Working(or children working) is labor

Child labor is illegal

So school should be illegal, don't you agree?

[Stolanis]

@misfittastic Your logic is flawed. Basic life may be applied biology, but human life requires something more - perhaps explainable by neuroscience in future, but not yet.

Mathematics is a subset of Life, and therefore subordinate to it. Mathematics may have empirical, absolute rules, but those rules wouldn't have any point if there weren't living, thinking beings alive to apply them. A workman's tools define his work, but without the workman they are merely so many pieces of useless metal.

[previouslyadjetive]

@misfittastic xkcd. com/435

[songhead95]

@misfittastic And psychology is applied biology and theology is applied psychology

therefor religion is math

[NickXDDX]

@misfittastic you mean life is VERY applied maths

[Hamgammy]

@misfittastic umm chemistry is NOT applied physics

do you know anything about science?

[ccrg109]

@Hamgammy It IS applied physics. Because without physics, there would be no chemistry.

[knightruben]

@misfittastic math is applied logic, philosophy hello

[sjsawyer]

@knightruben bingo

[animerox1341]

@misfittastic

Great job quoting xkcd there autist but original thoughts are worth more than mimickry.

[TheFactoryReject]

@misfittastic Though, to further the quotation, 'some would argue that physics is to math as sex is to masturbation'.

[Erniethecatisawesom]

@misfittastic Meteorology needs math and physics too! 

[apoisonoussymphony]

@misfittastic too simplistic an explanation

[Phillipandmvp]

@misfittastic well actually physics is its own thing, its not applied anything. engineering is applied physics, chemistry and biology arent really related. And all 4 you mentioned have to do with life.

[Shiryuk0]

@Phillipandmvp and yet he's the one with 147 thumbs up...

[Phillipandmvp]

@Shiryuk0 because most people dont know about this stuff

[scoobydoorocks10]

@misfittastic best comment/post/poem/sentence/ etc... Dont listen to the jerkbagfaces who say youre wrong. because youre not, because i researched, and asked my math and science teachers and each source said that you were correct in any and all possible ways.

Posted by scoobydoorocks10

[WorldsBestCommunist]

@misfittastic nice job stealing that from xkcd

[SjoerdReligion]

@misfittastic 'Been watching XKCD?

I like your conclusion 'though

[superfangran]

@misfittastic what about English/Languages? if English/Languages does not include maths life is not maths

[eeg10]

@superfangran Language is an abstract concept that is conceived entirely from Humans. When misfittastic said life is maths, he is probably talking about the concrete observations of nature, not abstract concepts such as language. Everything in nature can be explained mathematically through science. Math is the language of science.

[HandsomeNamed]

@eeg10

Mathematics is an abstract concept, too. In fact mathematics is more abstract than language, since language is innately learnt whilst the arbitrary system of mathematics must be taught.

Jus' sayin'

[HandsomeNamed]

@superfangran

That might have been a clever point if it were conceivably possible to exist solely in and with language.

[insidethewomb]

@misfittastic u echo me.

[jontycampbell]

@misfittastic I thought you said it was applied Physics?

[pianobear7491]

@misfittastic You forgot the Q.E.D!! ^.^

[ThePaxkivimae]

@misfittastic yeah, but math compared to physics is like masturbation compared to sex.

[ernesthelp]

@ThePaxkivimae XKCD

[ThePaxkivimae]

@ernesthelp yeap

[sundhaug92]

@misfittastic That's why the answer is 42

[TheRealSkullking]

@misfittastic

Hooray for combining XKCD comic with troll logic! lol

[Mousegirl103]

Way to put a downer on life! XD It's everywhere OMG! MAths EVERYWHERE!!!

[GemSirin]

instant fav. :D

[Dolphinboy1994]

its because its so amazing there is no need for words

[legolaptop]

lol

[JtheEpic]

4000 views i'm the only comment??? wtf???

[LongRangeRifle]

Mathematicians are just not people of many words. :p

[fictitousmoose]

11100010 110000 1100 100

[ProofBloggCantDance]

that's not real binary, it has to be divisible by 8.

translate this:0101010001101111011011010­010000001001100011001010110100­001110010011001010111001000100­000001111010010000001010111010­0100101001110

[SilverBellsAbove]

He is indeed win.

01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101110 01100101 01110100 00101110

[ProofBloggCantDance]

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[andrew11235]

no no no no no a binary number doesn't have to be divisible by eight.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

Binary is divisible by 2

where 1/2 = 0

[TSFreakazoid]

@LongRangeRifle Many equations, yes, just not words.