As math educators, we often wish out loud that our students were more excited about mathematics. I finally came across a video that indicates what such a world might be like:
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18 November, 2021 at 3:18 pm
Daniel Goldston
That graph looks more like y= cos( Pi x)
18 November, 2021 at 3:40 pm
Savitha
Funny!!!!
18 November, 2021 at 3:49 pm
ThiKu
Seems to be in Korea.
18 November, 2021 at 5:26 pm
Hhan
Yeah it’s Korean event and held in a famous club Octagon.
18 November, 2021 at 4:13 pm
David Roberts
There is an extended version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRFTmJkfeks
18 November, 2021 at 4:23 pm
Anonymous
They desperately need to convert to polar coordinates.
18 November, 2021 at 4:32 pm
Sang-il Oum
Funny! Another reason to visit Korea again? ;-)
After some search, I found a longer version:
18 November, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Anonymous
Haha, I like it. Thanks Terry :)
18 November, 2021 at 5:12 pm
Maverick S H Oh
Hello! Thank you for your interest!
This happened at the Club Octagon, South Korea, Dec 22, 2021. It was supported and run by KOFAC (government science foundation) and science communicators in the organization. I was one of the science communicators and I contributed on making the background video. We had many other performances/activities too but this video went viral the most 😄
Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks again!
18 November, 2021 at 5:39 pm
Tony Huynh
I assume you mean Dec 22, 2018? Or is this a clip from the future?
18 November, 2021 at 5:55 pm
Maverick S. H. Oh
Ah yeah thanks! It was 2018. I made a critical typo XD… Idk if I can edit my comment. Thanks :)
18 November, 2021 at 8:50 pm
Anonymous
can you supply another website which I can open from the mainland of PRC，thanks~
19 November, 2021 at 10:34 am
Maverick Sang-Hyun Oh
I do not know of the Chinese restrictions and availability. I guess VPN would help?
22 November, 2021 at 12:38 am
Anonymous
yes，I think it will be helpful～
19 November, 2021 at 7:14 am
Emmanuel Xagorarakis
Speaking about math excitement, would you consider am academic publication; the by number theory algorithm of human immortality?
https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/
In the the Links option,
“another masterpiece by Emmanuel Xagorarakis”
http://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/akherim/Xagorarakis19.doc
Thanks,
Emmanuel Xagorarakis
20 November, 2021 at 3:20 pm
Emmanuel Xagorarakis
Please read the academically published paper before you give a downvote. Thanks!
21 November, 2021 at 9:53 am
Emmanuel Xagorarakis
Here it is in pdf.
“The Singularity Algorithm of Human Vs Computer and the Binary Code for the Quantum Computer”
Click to access Xagorarakis_Decimal%20System-Singularity(5).pdf
From the proud Greece,
E. Xagorarakis
22 November, 2021 at 4:38 pm
Emmanuel Xagorarakis
I really don’t think I have many downvotes since I’m the outcast here. Immortality and the algorithm of it; go figure…
25 November, 2021 at 10:18 am
Emmanuel Xagorarakis
I somehow enjoy getting downvotes here. Thanks!
19 November, 2021 at 10:01 am
Paul Jung
I’m glad that the Gaussian distribution made the cut. It’s apparently as important as cos(x) and more important than sin(x). By the way, that part in korean in the middle was saying quadrant 1,2,3,4…
19 November, 2021 at 10:52 am
Anonymous
Stupid. A bunch of jerks jumping up and down. It is not music, it is not math.
19 November, 2021 at 12:54 pm
Anonymous
Someone is sad and jealous
19 November, 2021 at 11:14 am
Anonymous
I hope that this post is meant to be only a joke.
20 November, 2021 at 3:23 pm
Trivia
Very mature
21 November, 2021 at 12:33 pm
Anonymous
Exitement = maturity
22 November, 2021 at 6:36 pm
Edgawliet
This is an outstanding move from professor Terence Tao. But for me personally, it cannot beat this:
22 November, 2021 at 11:00 pm
Aditya Guha Roy
There is also a music band by the name “Axiom of Choice”. Although I did not hear many songs by them but the ones’ I heard I could not relate to the axiom of choice or anything related to axiomatic set theory, but I think there should be some connection or some musician was just too excited by the axiom of choice and started a music band by this name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_Choice_(band)
23 November, 2021 at 11:29 pm
domotorp
Not sure where to post this, but apprently google stole your tab name:
chrome://whats-new/
25 November, 2021 at 11:23 am
Emmanuel Xagorarakis
Would you consider a free ebook of mine, on the Foundations of Mathematics:
http://www.saitabooks.eu/2015/01/ebook.134.html?m=1
It is ground-braking.
3 December, 2021 at 3:19 pm
Emmanuel Xagorarakis
Thanks for downvoting.
26 November, 2021 at 9:55 am
Anonymous
Which kind of excitement is really needed to study mathematics?
27 November, 2021 at 12:01 am
lincui
Hey, Terence. Being a mathematics professor at UCLA is so lucrative.
I dream of having as much knowledge as you do, then I will have plenty of money.
I grew up in a destitute family which even cannot provided me enough food in my childhood.
How I wish I could understand advanced mathematics as you do…
Knowledge is money…
27 November, 2021 at 12:12 am
lincui
Hey, Terence. How can I understand as much of mathematics as you do?
My parents’ yearly income totally is less than 15,000 dollars.
If I can become a mathematics professor at Yale University, I will earn at least 150,000 dollars per year.
Which is ten times as much as my parents’ total income…
I cannot wait having a Ph.D degree in mathematics and to get income from mathematics knowledge…
27 November, 2021 at 10:03 am
Anonymous
keep dreaming!
27 November, 2021 at 12:36 am
CUILIN
Terence, I have an old friend who was born in 1953 and who has a Ph.D degree in philosophy from Harvard. I dream of having a Ph.D degree from schools like Harvard as well. But not in humanities, I want to have a Ph.D degree in mathematics…
27 November, 2021 at 5:22 am
CUI LIN
Hey, Terence. My life ambition is to be 3 times more intelligent and more knowledgable than you. I will give up all my life enjoyments and pleasures in order to realize this dream and ambition…
27 November, 2021 at 10:07 am
Anonymous
You will never pass Terry, even if you are a cat with nice lives. Intelligence and knowledge can’t be quantified.
29 November, 2021 at 7:27 pm
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11 December, 2021 at 12:37 am
Anonymous
Russia turned off its internet for the months of June/July to test out a new Chinese/Iranian style firewall. Now it’s demanding that all of the major US technology companies relocate an HQ to Russia. It’s not correct to let Russia dictate US behavior by showing a weapon. Game theorists, begin calculating!
27 December, 2021 at 7:02 am
wenhan xie
Dear Professor tao，what do you think of Bourbaki？