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wonder behind things like cars and heck, thermostats. Again, very interesting how important Math is, especially how even higher level math originated from practical problems. Also very cool how Math can help is figure things out we didn’t even know existed. Just so so so very cool

I just finished the book. Though math seems very abstract, its purpose is clear: to provide structure. It allows us to take things in the world and organize them in ways we can better understand it, as well as how its parts interact. From numbers, to stats, to calculus, and to graph theory, just knowing a little about these areas can help you think more critically about networks, averages, and just appreciate the

Very very cool stuff. However, whats not so cool is the neural networks that some of these sites use (facebook) which use data to predict what people like, and what they’re going to do. These networks and the large amounts of data that they use can be used to affect polls for elections, and can be used for even more harm. Thus, its so very important that I understand graph theory, and how it relates to the world.

I just learned some more about Graph theory and its applications. I honestly would’ve never expected that the way Google works is through websites and links all linked together on a graph; it makes a lot of sense though, and is really cool. Its also interesting again how Its used in Movie recommendations(Netflix) but also in figuring out the most important genes that affect cancer, helping fight Cancer! Very

I just learned about graph theory. Its so interesting how math can be used to solve everyday problems, like if a road network is connected, or the shortest route between 2 points. Its also interesting how simple givens and efficiency tricks can speed this process up like crazy, showing just how powerful but interesting this field is. As always, very interesting and valuable information!

Overall, now im very intrigued into learning more about statistics AND calculus. Very wild how much they affect our lives.

I learned about statistics and how they can be used for good, but also how blindly accepting them can be detrimental. For example, we can validate someone’s chances for a disease, or use correlations to test the possibility of it being wrong like in tracking water-borne diseases. But things like polls and averages can be skewed by their context, like with the population used, the actual data points, etc.

I even started to learn the use of graphs and binomial distribution by De Moivre. Honestly, im having a hard time trying to understand these concepts! But thats why Im doing them in the first place. Hope I get to learn more

I learned about the beginnings of statistics and probability, and why theyre so useful, but also why theyre often inaccurate. For example, poll estimations can be super innacurate, and so can cancer tests. This stems from the fact that we need a predicted outcome in order to get to its probability. However, individuals like bayes created formulas which helped us calculate probabilies without sm given info, and

amount they would bend. Heck, its even used in thermostats and coffee machines, to calculate how much it needs to change the temp to match the desired. Though the creator of these ideas is debating (Newton vs Leibniz), and though it can be hard to understand them, its quite remarkable how much simpler they make life, the technology they make, and the fundamental idea of rate of change and amount changed behind it.

Is used in so many ways in the modern world. Its used in our cruise control, to calculate how much the car needs to accelerate in order to keep a certain speed. Its used in car crash tests to check how fast the head moves in certain timeframes, as well as how many times it goes back and forth. It was used in building the golden gate bridge in order to calculate the rate at which the girders bent, and the total

I just learned about Calculus: The integral and the derivative. Unlike the ancient societies who used basic math, it would seem very impractical to make calculus or study the possibility of infinity. Infinity was something that Archimedes refused to acknowledge (He wanted to work with real and defined numbers.) However, the Calculus, and its fundamental idea of studying rate of change and how much something changes

they also later started using it for bookkeeping, projects, and other things. The Chinese were actually first to represent a 0 between numbers (like 60,390) and large quantities with only a few symbols. (Though india created the symbol for 0.) All in all, its seen that numbers were only used and created when larger cities needed ways to organize their people, goods, later money, and land.

abstract geometry, with people like Archimedes, Euclid, and Pythagoras working on angles and circles, and allowing them also to do projects like aqueducts. They also started using proofs to prove their works and theories, something the other 3 didn’t do. In Egypt, Mesopotamia, and im pretty sure Greece (though not 100% sure), Math was seen as a big thing. However, in China it really is wasn’t, even though

I just learned about Messapotomia, Egypt, and China; specifically, how they all started using numbers to make life in large cities easier. In Messapotamia and Egypt, they would use it for bookkeeping, making sure that there was enough food and that people knew how much taxes to pay. It also made trade, the distribution of goods, and projects like the Pyramid easier. The greeks on the other hand were more into

I just learned about the humans (and chicks) innate ability to recognize shapes and lengths. It shows that even without training, we can still make out a square from a cylinder, or remember which corner something was in based on where the long side and short side of it where located. Though this isn’t math or geometry, it shows that at the most basic level, we are able to survive and do things wit these abilities.

I just learned about how groups of people can still do things like trade, build structures, and estimate lengths. It seems that humans have parts in the brain that can tell the difference between two things, allowing us to also know the difference between two lengths, and estimate the amount of something we need. It seems that small groups of people dont need math like bigger groups of people do.

The world. Though both delve on the question of math, if it even previously existed, and its use, we have countless numbers of examples of how simple math formulas turned out to predict things in the real world (gravity, solar system, positron, reflection, etc.) This shows us that though we don’t know the purpose of math yet, and also how we even learn it, it still makes life easier for us, and leads to discovery

I just learned about some philosophy about math. Though we usually think that math is simply just a way to describe the world, people didn’t actually think that way. Platonists believe that math is actually a whole different world from reality, which rather produces shadows of the things we see in the world. However, nominalists believe that math is simply just a man-made creation, with no sensible connection to

Im currently liking the book a lot. I really enjoy his philosophical view of Math in the introduction, as well as the recognition of how important Math is in our day to day lifes. Today, I learned about the simple algorithm behind finding the most efficient route, as well as how Netflix can recommend shows and movies to millions of watchers. Its already incredible how simple math can make our lived so much easier.

Het is een raadsel waarom de wiskunde zo goed werkt.

Wie zich een mening wil vormen over de grote maatschappelijke discussies van vandaag de dag kan dat alleen doen als hij of zij enigszins begrijpt waar ze over gaan, welke oplossingen er haalbaar zijn en welke niet. Daarbij kunnen we niet om de grafentheorie heen.

Differentialen gaan over snelheid: hoe hard verandert iets? Integralen gaan over hoeveelheid: hoeveel is iets al veranderd?

Overal waar mensen in grotere groepen gaan wonen en meer handel gaan drijven, zie je wiskunde opkomen. Het plannen van steden, ontwerpen van gebouwen, bijhouden van voedselvoorraden, bouwen van oorlogsmachines: het zijn allemaal dingen waarvoor we wiskunde gebruiken.

Anders gezegd, we weten niet of de wiskunde ontdekkingen doet over een abstracte wereld waar we met moeite bij kunnen komen, of dat we alles verzinnen. Dat komt omdat noch de platonisten, noch de nominalisten erin zijn geslaagd goed uit te leggen hoe we wiskunde leren.

Anders gezegd: volgens Plato ontdekken we dingen over de wiskunde. Maar misschien valt er niets te ontdekken en hebben we alles over de wiskunde gewoon verzonnen.