 Why is math important? It's a question I've been asked a lot and Depending on who's asking me this question, you know, how well I know them, how long I've known them You know what kind of tone they're using to ask this question. Is it a sarcastic tone? Is it a really inquisitive tone? Do they really want to know why mathematics is important and why they should spend so much time learning the language of mathematics, right? So depending on, you know, a fair bit of criteria, I sort of gauge the situation And I provide different types of answers for different people type of people that are asking me this question, right? And it's a very personal question, you know It's really basically comes down to why is mathematics important to you? Why is it important to me, right? Now putting all the personal answers aside as to why mathematics is important to you or to me individually If we look at it as to why mathematics is important to us human beings as a species It really just breaks down into Mathematics is a vital step in our evolution. We developed the language of mathematics So we could do more intricate problems so we could understand more about the world around us, right? Mathematics was developed so that we could optimize our ability to create and to interact with the world Basically, mathematics is the language that we've come up with to be able to look at the world in an analytical form to look at the world and Try to figure out how the world works Try to optimize what we're able to create The language of mathematics that we're using right now all the symbols everything we know about mathematics Was you know, it didn't come about, you know in a week or a day or a year It was built slowly from certain rules that we came up with right certain facts that we knew about the world and from there We built sort of a language syntax, right and on top of that we started, you know experimenting and you know messing around with the language taking a little bit over here a little bit over here and Combining them and trying to figure out if you know the result what was being told through the language Was what was happening in the world, right? Sometimes it was true. Sometimes it was not sometimes we didn't really know what we're coming across What the language was revealing until much later sometimes years later sometimes weeks later sometimes decades or centuries later We really understood began to understand the power of what was being revealed to us, right and from there Slowly we were able to you know build more intricate models of what the world is like both through experimentation and through Hypothesizing right based on certain assumptions and combining different rules and different laws that we know to see what the language Was revealing to us from you know the importance of prime numbers and how we're able to utilize prime numbers and technology right now To the you know the the full spectrum of the electron electromagnetic radiation Light basically right because right now what we see through our eyes is only a small fraction of what all the information Contained in light is right to the basic Fundamental building blocks of what we believe this reality to be made out of to life to be made out of right from Quantum mechanics to black holes measuring the smallest thing in the universe to the largest thing in the universe from max plan Discovering that information energy came to us in packets and thinking that it was just a mathematical trick to us You know finally realizing through quantum mechanics that know you know life information You know energy comes to us in packets is released in packets right mathematics has revealed Basically the most fundamental things that we know about the universe Before we were able to actually measure that information right before we were able to actually interact with that With with that part of reality right? Mathematics is basically our way of trying to understand the world right so it was a vital step in our evolution And not only was it a vital step in our evolution and us understanding What the world contains and how we can interact with it It's it was a vital step and in evolution in directing us down a certain path Right because mathematics as soon as we're able to discover all these things about reality and build all these instruments to you know Interact with the world and you know create buildings and come up with cars and you know create wheels for wheels That were exactly identical so you could put it on a car where you know If you're driving the cars not wobbly so it's all it's all synced right you're driving a smooth car to building our roads to You know making our clothes to everything that we have in the world in the world right now That is man-made that is not part of the natural ecosystem at its base at its core is brought to us through Mathematics okay, so math didn't just reveal all this information to us Was not just a vital step in our evolution and trying to understand the world around us it was a vital step in evolution in Getting us to interact with the world So mathematics has really set us on the path that we're on right now and mathematics is going to see us into the future right so mathematics is basically directing us to Where we're going to how human beings we are Interacting with the world to what we're able to create to how we're how we're Socially interacting with each other to the systems to the economic systems to the political systems that we're building to the scientific models That we're creating to us You know being being able to explore ocean depths to us being able to you know go into space and look at the You know look at the universe and trying to understand how the universe came to be and how we can you know Go beyond our you know little world that we live on as you know Carl Sagan would say this little blue dot that we live on right now, right? So mathematics is basically part of us it is it is It is directing us it is it is an essential part of what human beings are if we remove the language of mathematics From who we are then you know we become an empty shell We become you know we descend into the dark ages you wouldn't be able to communicate the way we are We wouldn't be able to look to the future the way we are We wouldn't be able to learn from the past the way we are Maybe from exploring the field of calculus where it basically is is our way of interacting with time looking at change Right to you know probability and statistics Which is our way of being being able to recognize patterns right to our way of you know just you know The field of algebra and problem solving which is our way of basically optimizing the way we behave with the world and What we're able to create so why mathematics is important because? Mathematics is who we are it's what we are and how we're able to you know What defines us as human beings it is the language we have developed to be able to do more Intricate problems that we were born to do right to ask the right questions to be able to answer the right questions Okay, and that's what mathematics is really about So if you're if you're thinking about you know why you should learn the language of mathematics That the reason you should spend the time to learn mathematics is because Mathematics is a part of you. This is a basic fundamental belief that Mathematics is is an innate human ability. We're hard-wired for Mathematics right just like we're hard-wired to make music to appreciate music We're hard-wired to do mathematics right and the language of mathematics was an essential You know the essential step in our evolution It was inevitable that we would come up with a language to be able to interact with the world as best as we could Right, so why math is important math is important because we're important It's a part of us. It's how we're able to You know come to the state that we are in and it's it's part of what's going to see us into the future It's the only thing that's going to see us into the future right when it comes to Sustainability when it comes to equality when it comes to Interacting with the world in the most optimum way that we can because that's the only thing we can do That's the only only thing that will see us into the future right waste not Okay, if we remove mathematics from us human beings there We remove and a very important part of who we are right It's just like removing our ability to enjoy music to create music It's removing our ability to be able to speak to be able to communicate in natural languages right if you we will move Mathematics from human beings from who we are then you know We just become a you know a shell that that is missing an essential part of what makes us human what makes us who we are okay, and That's that's as basic as a guess as to why mathematics is important as to why math is important to you personally Well, that's that's a question that only you can answer once once you learn the language of mathematics Right once you become literate in the language of mathematics, you know It's the same type of question as asking yourself why music is important to you Why being able to read and write is important to you, right? Once you learn the language of mathematics The answer becomes self-evident as to why math is important to you as a as an individual, right as a species We wouldn't be here right now if we didn't have mathematics The world would not be the way it is if we didn't have math mathematics, right? And just one thing to keep in mind Mathematics is a language, right? It can be used to do good. It can be used to do bad You be used to say good things that can be used to say bad things, right? And it's up to you how you decide to use that language. So once you learn mathematics, you know take it into your heart and Figure out what it is that you want to do with mathematics How you're going to use math to optimize your life? How are you going to use math to be able to create? How are you going to use math to be able to destroy if you want to destroy? How are you going to use mathematics to be able to communicate to you know to to others? How you're going to use math to improve your life, okay? And that is again a personal decision that you're going to have to make Once you learn the language of mathematics if you don't know mathematics Then you're missing an essential part of what makes us human beings And that's why it's important to learn mathematics because mathematics is a part of you It's in your DNA your hard wire to do mathematics, and it's really important To learn the syntax the language that we've come up with to optimize your ability to do mathematics Okay, I hope that answers your question as to Why math is important to us as a species? Why math is important to you? You're the only person that can answer that why math is important to me Well, I can't even imagine what my life would be like without mathematics. It would be it would be brutal It is my only assumption, okay, and I'm really you know Glad that I you know I spent a lot of time learning math and it was hard work and the work times were you know, I was pulling out my hair and You know You know banging my head against the walls, you know going why am I doing this? But you know after going through it, you know I'm a much better person for it, and I'm able to interact with the world in In the way that I really want to interact with the world, right? It has helped me optimize my ability to interact with the world to the material world the social world And it's helped me able to you know to be able to create what I want to create Okay, so I hope you know I hope I hope you take the heart and you really think about why it is that you're trying to learn the language of math Mathematics which is basically the best language that we've been able to come up with so far To be able to interact with the world around us and to be able to optimize our innate ability or you know What we're hardwired to do Okay See you guys in the next videos. Bye for now