TED Radio Hour
How do numbers shape our lives? J.L.Bulcao/iStock hide caption
How do numbers shape our lives?
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TED Radio Hour 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.
Solve For X
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.
"To me what's exciting is the answers that math can get you to." - Randall Munroe James Duncan Davidson/TED hide caption
"A mathematical proof appears as a thing of beauty. It speaks of a higher truth. It speaks of a harmony to knowledge." - Terry Moore James Duncan Davidson/TED hide caption
"Numbers are beautiful." - Clayton Cameron Ryan Lash/TED hide caption
"Decisions are made automatically by machines, increasingly without human supervision." - Kevin Slavin James Duncan Davidson/TED hide caption
Writer Randall Munroe answers bizarre questions with math, like what would happen if a baseball pitcher threw a ball at 90 percent the speed of light? James Duncan Davidson/Courtesy of TED hide caption
"Three is like a magic number." - Clayton Cameron Ryan Lash/Courtesy of TED hide caption
"I struggle to find anything in the world that you can't that you can't get an interesting perspective on by using maths." - Hannah Fry Courtesy of TED hide caption
Percussionist Clayton Cameron says learning the language of numbers improved his music. Ryan Lash/Courtesy of TED hide caption
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