Creativity Imagination Math

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i’m

rosie and today i will be focusing on

spotting the creativity and

imagination inside mathematics

so who here wants an ice cream right now

me too but let’s talk about it later

first of all let’s talk about some math

some simple one why is six afraid of

seven

that’s right because seven eight nine

that’s just a simple answer but

on the other hand why are us humans

afraid of mass

that’s because we’re often afraid of

numbers

we sometimes view those numbers as

insurmountable challenge that keeps

hitting on us just look at this figure

and see

if this somehow reminds you of the fear

that you have over mass

if it does that’s because we often

picture those figures

as grand figures which only scientists

and mathematicians will venture to take

a step in

but actually don’t look at these numbers

as just numbers

we sometimes describe math as a language

itself

because we saw human languages are not

even capable of

explaining the complicity of it but

today

i’m here not to just talk about math but

more importantly

let’s talk beyond math let’s talk about

how

math powers imagination and how it helps

us to explore

and even construct the world people

often value math

as only logical reasoning and problem

solving skills

of course math cannot be separated from

those two

but remember there are only tools which

helps us to approach

the nature of math there can be a

pathway to understanding but they are

never the purpose that we’re aiming for

in fact everything and mass lead to

creativity and imagination

now let’s get back to our ice cream

imagine you are holding this ice cream

and

it’s a pretty typical one as you can see

it consists two parts a creamy topping

and a crispy cone

imagine you’re holding it and it happens

to be someone

who just heard my ted talk and you are

inspired to be a mathematician for one

day

um you’re looking at it then you start

randomly through

throwing different mathematical

questions towards this for ice cream

you saw oh how can we figure out the

volume of this topping

or is this beautiful geometric shape

somehow connected to the secret of

fibonacci sequence

great questions of course but then after

a minute you got

bored then tragedy occurs you

dropped it what can we do now

but look at it the cone part is still

good can we

at least pick it up it’s five seconds

rule

it will make a big difference but now

the only thing you have

is a cone it’s just a cone sitting there

doing nothing

so why don’t we do something to it

something exciting like

cut it open that might not sound very

mathematical indeed but

let’s try it because it sounds creative

i’m cutting it open can be fun because

you find several ways of doing it you

can cut it open either like that

or like that or like that and they give

you different outcomes if you look at

them from sideways

that cut gives you a circle that one

gives you

an ellipse and finally that one it gives

you

a curve which we usually call a parabola

these shapes as mathematicians as what

mathematicians always do we

gave them a fancy name we call them

conic sections

and conic sections are actually

everywhere you can find them

from grand human buildings to small

but beautiful nature belongings and

any basketball players here around

if you are one please raise your hand

see we have a lot of basketball players

here

i’m one myself too and what happens when

you throw a ball

chestnut could you please catch this

oops

sorry nice catch anyways but

did you just see what’s happening that

was the parabola that you just created

when you throw a ball you always get a

parabola and parabola

are everywhere you can literally spot it

here’s a parabola and you can spot it

from everywhere

you can spot it when a dolphin jumps out

of water

when a comet sweeps across the sky or

look into a mirror then you’ll find that

your eyes they’re

actually in parabolic structure too

parabolas they are beautiful shapes and

they are just as

powerful at the same time you can find

them

in the world famous building

the golden gate bridge bridges are meant

to be built strong

so that they can support the weight or

heavy loads that’s

acting on it so why is the parabolic

structure

applied in bridges because it actually

helps the bridge

to support any heavy loads that you need

to overcome

when a force is applied to a specific

region

on the bridge the parabola actually has

the ability to

send it down to different parts of the

parabolic structure

because a parabola is placed on evenly

the middle is arching up and the other

parts

are bending down so when the force is

applied

it can distribute it to different places

so that parabolic structure can usually

obtain

much more weight than other structures

such as a straight line or anything else

now let’s think back what we just did

that is called

mass don’t be shocked by me but you are

doing that

with me together math might be the most

imaginative form of art ever you can did

you

just think back we started from simply

a ice cream and it drops and then we

get conic sections and parabola now

we’re here

math is imaginative because it can give

us so many ways of so many different

things

and mathematics every mathematician is

an artist

in their own way for being creative

enough to connect

concepts together and also to start from

only a simple what if and end

with amazingly creative ideas and

connections between things

and our imagination is just never enough

you can always dive deeper imagination

and creativity

actually they often come hand in hand

because every piece of creation

starts from a single idea to try and

also from

imagining and constructing an idea if

you are creative enough

you can even find connections between

this bridge fantastic bridge between

this bridge and an egg

look at that egg what do you find you

can also find parabolic structure in

this egg

you can also picture it as an ellipse or

you can easily picture it as

the con as two parabolic structures that

are connected

actually it works the same way just it

did with the bridge

when a specific force is applied to this

egg

it’s the force got distributed to

different parts of the egg so the shell

can overcome

so much force have you ever tried to

squeeze an egg

with only your palm try it it’s

extremely hard to break the egg there’s

actually a challenge on youtube that’s

called

impossible air crush what impossible

because it’s hard

and an egg by experimenting it people

find out

it actually takes more than 26

kilograms of weight to break an egg

like clutching it in an upright position

26 kilograms that’s almost the weight of

a eight-year-old and

thanks to our parabola they’re so so

powerful

another example of applying parabola can

be

eiffel tower you are having this and

actually i don’t know if you thought

about this eiffel tower is made of all

metals

and these metals they um at total

the eiffel tower approximately weights

ten thousand and a hundred tons

and it’s simply supported by a parabolic

structure

at a base parabolas they’re amazing

and now don’t be shocked by this but you

are doing mass

again using your imagination and

creativity along with me

mass powers imagination and creativity

and those two are actually the essence

of of our

technology and now their world as nicola

tesla once said

facts and ideas are dead in themselves

and it’s the

imagination that brings life to them and

everyone is a mathematician because

everyone has ability to cut a cone open

or create a fantastic perfect parabola

by throwing a ball you are all

mathematicians

and thank you very much and also thanks

for our ice cream