My joke whenever I fumble arithmetic at D&D games is “I’m a math major, I haven’t seen a number in like, five years”
@janzwendelaar907
4 ай бұрын
That's precisely the sort of joke I'd expect a math major to make at a D&D session
@maxwellquipey1
4 ай бұрын
math with no numbers is just straight up Illegal
@helloiamenergyman
4 ай бұрын
That's the standard math major joke. We've all said it at some point
@YaamFel
4 ай бұрын
I study math not arithmetic goddamnit!
@alnahiyan6511
4 ай бұрын
I can't make my engineer friends understand that in math exams I had to solve theories.
@dorobokino
2 ай бұрын
This. I grew up naturally gifted at math and went for a Mathematics major in university because I was good at it, not because it was my favorite subject. But, it was in university that I grew to love math. It stops becoming rote memorization of formulas and instead becomes elegant proofs, tests of logic, and lots of critical thinking. I never expected to literally write pages after pages of proofs, with more English words on the paper than there were numbers or symbols. It felt like, even if for a moment, I was experiencing what it must have been like to be Pythagoras or Euclid or Descartes or Bernoulli. I have fond memories of my math studies
@tabc6870
Ай бұрын
Same. I was good but not passionate. When I started doing research and assignments that allowed me to be creative was when I got excited about math. I work as a statistician now and there’s so much going on in this field.
@IDontKnowWhatToPutOg
Ай бұрын
Mb it’s just where I live but 80% of math is critical thinking for me. Edit: it’s because my teachers and google taught us why we do it instead how we do it :)
@user-xz1wy4to4o
Ай бұрын
bro was writing pages of equations in the dark with messy hair, papers scattered about, and beethoven playing in the background thinking he was sir isaac newton 💀
@Adri-242
13 күн бұрын
@@user-xz1wy4to4o 😂😂
@mikael9325
3 күн бұрын
What do you do for work after that?
@ConceivedSorrow
4 ай бұрын
- Oh, so you're studying maths? I'm bad at fast calculations - Me too lol
@alex2005z
4 ай бұрын
Im very fast at typing stuff into my calculator
@phillyphakename1255
3 ай бұрын
My dad and brother are accountants. They don't do math, they use Excel to do math.
@GabriTell
2 ай бұрын
For some reason people use to think Mathematicians are some kind of "human calculators", but our mental calculation ability is average (or even below average). People just cannot get an idea of the level of abstract thinking that is achieved in this degree, they only expect a "harder" version of what they already know from High School or other math-related degree.
@tegathemenace
2 ай бұрын
@@GabriTell I always rate myself based on how fast I understand and decipher abstract problems. Never memorization or abacus skills Once you get something once even if you forget some syntax. In the real world after school, nobody is stopping you from looking it up. Memorization isn't that large a flex in this field(although you'd have to memorize formulas😂)
@jasonsmith6654
2 ай бұрын
Lmao, that's everyone who actually knows what's happening in a high-level math class. I can't tell you how often I hear "I thought you were good at math" from co-workers and family members
@Free2101
4 ай бұрын
Can confirm. Studying pure math drastically improved my language learning and English ability. It really is just another form of communication
@blablablablablablablablablbla
3 ай бұрын
The language part is only part of it. Math is more than just that.
@user-lb8qx8yl8k
3 ай бұрын
Exactly! Math is a logic-based extension of everyday language.
@ceezee1229
2 ай бұрын
Engineers have to deal with mathematicians the same way chefs have to deal with food scientists.
@twistedelixir1795
4 ай бұрын
Proofs may not look like a lot, but there is more time and energy put into some of my proofs than I put into entire essays in other classes. I took differential equations this last semester and it was a breath of fresh air. Now I just have to apply that to my thesis... which actually uses real analysis.
@descendency
4 ай бұрын
I got really good at writing the words "Assume not... This is a contradiction. QED."
@JimAllen-Persona
4 ай бұрын
You poor bastard… that’s why you stay in Applied Math. Proofs suck.
@user-me8hy8ew4o
4 ай бұрын
@@descendency Nothing more satisfying than writing QED. at the end
@STUDYING-ew8xf
3 ай бұрын
@@user-me8hy8ew4o Colouring in a square is more satisfying that Q.E.D. IMO.
@santaclaus804
2 ай бұрын
analysis my beloved
@dailyoracl5562
2 ай бұрын
Math is the purest form of language we have, it makes sense that it's easier for mathematicians to pick up other languages
@czerwonykwadrat6843
4 ай бұрын
Stefan Banach, one of the most important 20th century mathematicians, was literally drunk out of his mind when writing some of his theorems and stuff, and he did it on a café table
@slyfox6996
4 ай бұрын
I can honestly say I've had to have a few drinks to keep myself sane and on track to make models. This is definitely realistic.
@Idtelos
2 ай бұрын
WEell, now you brought me back to remembering Banach, Hilbert and Sobolov Spaces...
@cufflink44
3 ай бұрын
I heard the guy who invented the Na’vi language for Avatar was a math major before studying linguistics. Interesting connection.
@someperson9998
2 ай бұрын
It makes sense. Math is a language after all.
@novaace2474
4 ай бұрын
I love how she says “make their own language” as a joke but I have made multiple full languages 😅
@mari-with-a-gun
4 ай бұрын
“As a joke” maybe it wasn’t
@BacklTrack
4 ай бұрын
Doubt it
@afj810
4 ай бұрын
she is not joking everyone knows conlangs exist
@novaace2474
4 ай бұрын
@@afj810 ya not everyone dude, we’re kinda a rare breed
@afj810
4 ай бұрын
@@novaace2474 esperanto is literally on google translate
@HabibaDima
3 ай бұрын
I love the comparison of math and languages. Math is a language, and a beautiful one.
@mybasementismissing110
17 күн бұрын
I like how you used the Stand Still Stay Silent graph of language! I very much loved that comic!
@KatBaumgarten
3 ай бұрын
This is the most incredible explanation i have ever heard i am WITH YOU SISTER
@betamax1828
19 күн бұрын
One of the most freaky realisations I ever had about mathematics is that it is the written language of the universe. It's logic in a pure written form. 2+2 will always equal 4 and when you realise that's not just an equation but an unequivocal fact you realise that maths is literally the explanation for everything that exists and how it works
@Discipuli3
Ай бұрын
That just encouraged me to practice German on Duolingo, I heard learning a new language makes it easier to learn another one.
@Avighna
4 ай бұрын
The linguistics analogy was really good
@elicezanker
3 ай бұрын
This is THE BEST expansion I've ever heard!!! ♥️♥️
@TheEllod
4 ай бұрын
I remember even as a kid when I went to math Olympiads all of my teammates were comfortably trilingual. It makes sense, as the the common connective link in math is the most sensible part of languages, so having access to small variances in different languages presenting the same argument concepts allows for a refinement in the mind of the viewer, which leads to the language of creating math
@junefranklin458
4 ай бұрын
knowing languages doesnt make your logic more sound, i speak quite a few languages. this is like saying chess players are iq 180. being good at languages is just like any other craft, takes time and effort and its very handy but it is what it is, it doesnt give you magic powers.
@TheEllod
4 ай бұрын
@@junefranklin458 I am arguing that if languages were learnt in formative years, it will make your logic sound, it is like saying that person who is competent in chess checkers and dominion will probably score well on those iq tests. There is no such thing as having an IQ of some number, it is a meaningless test that actually favors those with a shallow understanding of many things(or those willing to answer given questions while asking themselves the question, "in what way is the question maker and examiner most likely to be stupid?" And answering based of that understanding.
@junefranklin458
4 ай бұрын
@@TheEllod well you are wrong, there is no connection between language ability and ability to form an argument. hell look at any of the thousands of fringe linguistics theories out there that claim basque is related to whatever other language.
@afj810
4 ай бұрын
@@junefranklin458 being faster at picking up languages does inherently make it easier for you to wrap your head around new concepts in general
@ses694
4 ай бұрын
Olympiads are very different from academic mathematics
@Iampowerful8
3 ай бұрын
I love the the connection between math and languages. I speak English, French and Spanish.
@usayeed727
2 ай бұрын
This is actually very true. I studied mathematics at university and I’m a polyglot. I speak English, Bengali on the native level, Urdu fluently, Arabic semi fluently with a working knowledge of Spanish. I view languages literally in terms of algebra- it helps with translation.
@excelsior_academy
6 күн бұрын
Me speaking 4 languages and studying math: "interesting"
@KT22672
2 ай бұрын
I’m commenting here because I love math and I don’t get enough math videos in my feed
@meowlotow
4 ай бұрын
OMG the background for the language family tree is from Stand Still Stay Silent, a webcomic I love!! Are you a fan??
@lunarennui
4 ай бұрын
I was about to say this!
@meowlotow
4 ай бұрын
@@lunarennuiare you a fan too? It's kinda rare to find people online who have read and properly remember it, especially still enjoy it today
@lunarennui
4 ай бұрын
@@meowlotow I am a fan, I actually just found about two weeks ago and have not quite finished it! It's sad to have missed out on all of the comments and KS stuff. It also hits differently from this side of the pandemic...
@meowlotow
4 ай бұрын
@@lunarennui @lunarennui omg I KNOW. I found the comic a year ago but only read it last December... I hope you're having fun with it. It does hit very different reading it in 2023-2024 tho. Imo the second arc is worse than the first but the first is just unforgettable. I adore the worldbuilding Minna did with it :D The comments are fun to read I agree, its like looking into the past. And afaik KS stuff are still sold on the hive works shop.. I'm not from the US tho so merch is hard to come by 😭
@saskeru9346
4 ай бұрын
This explains why I had a physics professor who knew four languages
@slitheringsnake229
Ай бұрын
I love seeing the “language” and recognizing the formula for Maximum likelihood estimators 😂
@michaelburrell4685
4 ай бұрын
I absolutely love math and languages. This shirt was fantastic.
@Cysfer
Ай бұрын
"If you just want to study Spanish be an Engineer", will all respect, I took Calc 1 and 2 in my senior year of high-school and haven't seen a number (that is rational) over 3. I miss the days of my honors geometry (three full classes between it and Calc 1). Those were the good days.
@michaelwilcken8113
Ай бұрын
They dropped a negative sign on the first screen. The cubed root of negative 8 is negative 2, not 2.
@GLRSCOpenSystems
2 ай бұрын
this is a great perspective, thank you for sharing. as someone who took 5 college math courses, i struggled alot , and got a C in all of them. it was memorable but i wasnt sure what i got out of it, but i think this helped give me more perspective
@NoitsYe
2 ай бұрын
Pure mathematics are the research scientists of math. They constantly think of new math. Creating equations and new proofs. Applied math is a technical application of mathematics in order to solve something that has been or can be solved or in order to reach a known goal.
@NikiReed-ds3ti
2 ай бұрын
“you’ll never see a number under 10 again” my tuition loans: “am i a joke to you?”
@taiwan153
2 ай бұрын
Logic is the kernel behind both
@tylerandersen9024
Ай бұрын
As someone who went to uni to study math, im very happy now to be in the english program... Numbers fun. Throwing in a few variables. Fun. Uni level math after the beginning courses... i drank. A lot.
@DaltonKevinM
3 ай бұрын
I enjoy learning foreign languages. My brain does the syntax this without me asking.
@jonboy700
3 ай бұрын
I loved (and still love) math, then I discovered language-learning, I love them both!
@laquenopinta
Ай бұрын
I'm finishing my degree as a Philologist and I also used to study Mathematics a few years ago (but got bored and dropped out after the first year), I can confirm that linguistics is kinda like math but more fun.
@lucasng9617
4 ай бұрын
What a nice way of explaining this! Awesome video!
@_vicary
3 ай бұрын
That's why every pure math paper invents a whole system of symbols to explain the concept.
@mrivera3046
2 ай бұрын
By the time i’m almost finished with my education people will discover how to solve the 4th dimension and i’ll be stuck taking math 10 more years.
@yusufyusuf1998
2 ай бұрын
4th dimension is nothing new in math
@PhronimosThuban
3 ай бұрын
I've been interested in linguistics for a long time, but I've seen the creative power of pure mathematics and I think I've found my way.
@gabrielsampaio5395
3 ай бұрын
I always thought language learning was similar to maths and physics at school and people always looked at me as if I was crazy. Glad to find echo somewhere.
@someperson9998
2 ай бұрын
No one should look at you crazy. Math is by definition a language.
@wurststar9023
2 ай бұрын
I'm studying math and the thing with the numbers is so true. I'm not used to see numbers anymore and need a cualculator for stuff like 3*9*4, I can do it, but I still have 5 more partial Integrations to do so I dont have time for that in the exam.
3 ай бұрын
Great analogy!
@jemportal4166
Ай бұрын
Best explanation of this profession I've ever heard 😂
@greenvortex7
2 ай бұрын
I was a language major and rhen transferred to a Conservatory Arts school. They wanted me to take more math but I found a small paragraph in the the school syllabus that equated learning a foreign language as applied mathematics. Since I had 4 semesters of double labguage major I petitioned and got my math credit. So yes very much agree with this. Also as a kid math and foreign lagbuages were also very easy to pickup and a great love for me. I used to say I wanted to be a mathematician as a kid.
@MahiVegiMahi1988
4 ай бұрын
That actually makes a ton of sense to me! I was a linguistics major and specifically remember having an epiphany during the semester I took syntax. As I sat repeatedly charting out English sentences (bc first language and all), the distinct thought flashed into my mind, “Oh wow! Syntax is just like working through a mathematical formula but for a language.” Never was great at math but realizing that somehow made it just click for me. And I’ve described it that way to anyone who’s asked me since 😂
@Eta_Carinae__
Ай бұрын
Applied math student here: it's more like, you go for applied math to learn like Spanish, Portuguese, English, German and Latin, so you can translate, talk, and every now and again figure out what something should be called in the language based off the etymology, but most importantly, you study it to be able to pick up other languages very quickly.
@kalisederoche
3 ай бұрын
as a linguist, ive always described it as the math of language 😂
@Worldtravelerr78
3 ай бұрын
By the time I was completing an engineering degree, my math courses were all about understanding patterns and simplification techniques. It was all so abstract that I only knew how to get the answers, not what the equations actually stood for.
@wackywally69420
2 ай бұрын
This is why i wanted to major in math i hate numbers gimme concepts. Also love learning languages i apparently knew spanish as a young child 😂
@cerisakorvak
4 ай бұрын
This was very helpful in explaining why on earth someone would choose to study mathematics
@arubafanatic
3 ай бұрын
I was going to major in math until mathematics became one with my physics texts. After calculus math started to become more theoretical and I got off the boat. Funnily enough, I've always been good with languages.
@krisv8407
3 ай бұрын
I was in a first year math class for engineering and let me tell you, it was like they were speaking another language. Needless to say i didnt end up being an engineer 😂
@shawnellemartineaux6212
3 ай бұрын
This explains how my brain works! I've always been great at math, sciences and languages. I used my science and math books to learn French. 😅 I'm a lawyer now, and intend to go into medicine.
@kevztunz
2 ай бұрын
"Hey. After sophomore year, you don't see a number over 10 again." "Hahahahahaha!! Good one."
@CamdenBintcliffe
Ай бұрын
As a conlanger this makes sense
@ekim051084
4 ай бұрын
I've had a tingling feeling about other languages who have terms for combinations of concepts or things, and in language we make up words for ideas/ labels/ phonomenon
@Scrydragon
3 ай бұрын
My nerdy group of friends was kind of sadistic. Whenever we went out to eat, we handed the bill to one of the two math majors to figure out how to divide, knowing FULL WELL that they were math majors and thus did not know what numbers were.
@stick80
2 ай бұрын
I am an engineer, and I definitely understand math as a language.
@jojokeane
3 ай бұрын
My Mother was a math genius and spoke 4 languages. She worked as a translator and later ran a business. She could keep track of numbers even after she developed Alzheimer's.
@blacksmith67
3 ай бұрын
It’s not strange, then, that I love linguistics and mathematics as well as logic.
@mk-gw9xj
4 ай бұрын
as a bilingual linguistics major who's taking computer science for some godforsaken reason: yep
@babetweirdgirl4103
3 ай бұрын
This is how I homeschool my kids. I tell them it's "math language" and once they learn basics they can do anything they need to do. 😅
@MrDDiRusso
3 ай бұрын
DAD JOKES MAKE ME NUMB. MATH JOKES MAKE ME NUMBER.
@windyhawthorn7387
3 ай бұрын
My mom studied theoretical mathematics and English. So basically she can understand the language of math and read and speak old English, middle English and modern English.
@s2000s7
2 ай бұрын
Computer science majors learn the properties of context free grammars, which can be applied to logic, math, language, and so many other specific things. I have to use a calculator for 8x9 though.
@frolstty
3 ай бұрын
I always said the same, ALL olimpics mathmaticians write in crystal clear way, with style, in fact.
@ScienceSpider-sigma
3 ай бұрын
I actually do find language structure as a whole really interesting because it's basically has pure math in it and I am good at understanding the concept of languages but not good at actually learning languages quickly
@killuahsmathetricks389
3 ай бұрын
As someone who studied maths and has a masters degree i totally agree. A joke as well is you only count like 1,2,3, many, very many. Because after a point the only "numbers" you see/are interessted on are so large, that they are just not really understandable anymore. Like imagine having a proof or something, where you use the nimber of atoms in the entire universe as a lowwr boundary. And you are probably off by a factor of 10^10 or some shit :D so yeah, technically its a number. But realistically its just "big number"
@cedricharris-v2r
21 күн бұрын
Thats the cast system tree right there
@MrSpooner1985
3 ай бұрын
I liked math till i got to Calculus 2; something about that class I found really difficult. Cal 1 wasnt a cake walk and neither was linear algebra.
@tengu190
Ай бұрын
Dad did math at Harvard and MTI and was a polygot at the same time. Got bored with theoretical mathemtics and became an economist.
@Thkaal
3 ай бұрын
Computer science major here yeah I haven't seen a number larger than 10 except when I'm like going shopping
@mindsQuill
3 ай бұрын
I am an autistic who is also a linguist and has specializations in mathematical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, semantics and psycholonguistics. My level1 autism is mostly manifested through my language expression and understanding. The irony of life. 😂
@jiahuakatz
3 ай бұрын
Jesus, my grandfather was exactly like this! He was such a smart man and loved to study Esperanto and read books like that every morning. However, i basically lived with Sheldon Cooper. I hated math and was more into History and art. I think i might have liked Pure Mathmatics.
@l.w.paradis2108
4 ай бұрын
The very best mathematicians I have met have such solid spatial intuition that it is scary. I sure don't. I have to approach math with an "algebraic" mind. (I don't remember not being bilingual.)
@111_Chromia
2 ай бұрын
The greatest tragedy of mathematics is that it never reached out to masses
@joshmyer9
3 ай бұрын
As a linguistics and mathematics dual major, I feel seen.
@enio17
2 ай бұрын
That's weird because I heard somewhere that bilingual people often struggle with arithmetic, like if there's a clear correlation there. We should fact check this.
@Austin-hm6qq
2 ай бұрын
Our engineer friends thought they came up with a hack for solving questions. The hack? “Just plug all your numbers in and do the computations right away” Ha ha. I wish
@GarrettMunro
3 ай бұрын
love your content put please get a steady cam or a mount or something, so dizzy
@olliejenkins3251
4 ай бұрын
As a physicist forced to take some pure mathematics models. Hmmm. Learnt that really quickly 😢
@anastasialiebster9244
4 ай бұрын
That’s why I switched to statistics
@hellbillyjr
3 ай бұрын
If i had to it it again, and could take the analogy you just dropped, id have been a mathematician instead of an engineer
@zexxxy_ow2
Ай бұрын
Math is the language of the universe so it’s not surprising mathematicians are good at linguistics
@orfeassiozos1575
3 ай бұрын
WHY COULDN'T MY PROFESSORS SAY THIS
@jaimeduncan6167
Ай бұрын
1. The Monster protests this video. She is talking in general, clearly, and that is more useful the people who can say "combinatorics" do not need the video. The other case is applied Math. You will be working with differential equations, AI, finite elements and a bunch of nice stuff that looks like the board.
@collingallaway5541
Ай бұрын
Well this is tragic news for me since I’m pretty bad at learning languages and math is kinda like the thing I have going for me…
@juanhurtado2489
4 ай бұрын
That's why Chomsky, before getting the linguistics major, got a diploma in math?
@Maatkara1000
4 ай бұрын
Nah, he's just a special kind of genius
@BravoCheesecake
3 ай бұрын
But Terrence Howard told me that I didn't even need to know math to understand it. You mean to tell me that you can't just make things up as you go? WOW
@vicentevazquez3917
3 ай бұрын
So they teach mathematics in Spanish. I would never have imagined it.
@TheJniez
Ай бұрын
Yup! Engineer 🤚🏻
@TimothyWhiteheadzm
3 ай бұрын
Strangely enough, I was very good at maths, but remain terrible at learning other spoken languages. However, as a programmer, I consider myself quite good at 'made up' languages (code).
@mattkaranouh184
3 ай бұрын
In the "this is what you think it's going to look like " didnt have any numbers over 10 either 😂
@LygarZeroX
3 ай бұрын
which is why i switched to engineering.
@WitheringRose13
3 ай бұрын
Everything is a language, from music to programming to yes, math. You just gotta learn a couple things and memorize how the base concepts work and you’ll be able to learn them in no time flat
@starseedswisdom3997
2 ай бұрын
I love languages and I think I could be a good linguistic. I am not sure about math though...
@meropale
3 ай бұрын
Oh, there is hope for me then.
@Se7eNBlack
3 ай бұрын
Dope! I'm in!
@Stygian_Silhouette
2 ай бұрын
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