Roger Antonsen: Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world
Roger Antonsen: La matemática es el secreto oculto para entender el mundo
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and the nature of understanding,
y de la naturaleza del entendimiento,
we aim for, everyone.
your perspective.
de perspectiva.
you don't have understanding.
no tiene entendimiento.
en las matemáticas.
as addition, subtraction,
como sumas, restas,
algebra -- all that stuff.
álgebra, todo eso.
about the essence of mathematics as well.
de las matemáticas, también.
has to do with patterns.
tienen que ver con patrones.
just from drawing circles
of mathematics that I use every day
de matemáticas, la que uso a diario,
a structure, some regularity,
una estructura, alguna regularidad,
these patterns with a language.
estos patrones con un lenguaje.
and just seeing what happens.
y ver qué pasa.
de hacer cosas geniales.
to do so many things.
hacer muchísimas cosas.
de una corbata,
the mathematics of tie knots.
de los nudos de corbata.
center-out and tie.
derecha-adentro, centro-afuera.
left-in, center-out and tie.
afuera, izquierda-adentro, centro-afuera.
for the patterns of tie knots,
para los patrones de nudos.
about tying shoelaces
sobre nudos de zapatos
en los nudos de zapato.
maneras diferentes.
are all over mathematics.
en toda la matemática.
for patterns in nature.
los patrones de la naturaleza.
this with mathematics in a pattern.
representarlo en un patrón matemático.
for dancing, for tap dancing.
para baile, para bailar tap.
to do cool stuff, to do new things,
hacer cosas geniales, nuevas cosas,
representing something actually is.
que es representar algo.
represent the word?
representen la palabra?
representan esa palabra
the word and the concept.
representan la palabra y el concepto.
going on about representing stuff.
al representar cosas.
that magic that happens
de la magia que sucede
with different widths.
for a particular book.
de un libro particular.
this book, it's a very nice book.
es un libro muy bonito.
with some straight lines.
we move one down and one across,
uno abajo y uno a través,
a little bit. I can rotate it.
un poquito. Puedo rotarlo.
and look for the true pattern.
y buscar el patrón verdadero.
the lines like this,
and change our perspective again.
de perspectiva otra vez.
what started out as just straight lines
empezamos solo con líneas rectas
con una ecuación simple,
definición del día a día.
day-to-day definition.
a little bit deeper,
what the nature of this is.
that's a little bit deeper,
to change your perspective.
de cambiar de perspectiva.
you change your perspective,
uno cambia de perspectiva,
about what you are watching
sobre lo que está viendo,
thing that we do all the time.
que hacemos todo el tiempo.
this simple equation,
and it's true,
y es verdadero,
and we represent it like this.
y lo representamos así.
is equal to something else,
that every equation is like this,
que toda ecuación como esta,
where you use that equality sign
que use el signo de igual
and taking two different points of view,
dos puntos de vista diferentes,
beautiful equations.
and the other one is.
y la otra parte también.
of the essential parts
de las partes esenciales
puntos de vista diferentes.
different points of view.
Sabemos lo que son cuatro tercios.
We know what four-thirds is.
those three dots,
colocar esos tres puntos,
exactamente cuatro tercios.
we use 10 digits.
and only use two digits,
change the number of digits,
cambiar la cantidad de dígitos,
of the same number.
del mismo número.
like 1.3 or 1.6.
como 1,3 o 1,6.
how many digits you have.
and write it like this.
simplemente así.
four divided by three.
que es cuatro dividido tres.
a relation between two numbers.
una relación entre dos números.
and three on the other.
y tres por el otro.
de muchas maneras.
from different perspectives.
diferentes perspectivas.
how we view something,
this line equals five, always.
esta línea es igual a 5, siempre.
This is a beautiful pattern.
Este es un patrón hermoso.
and just play more with this number.
y jugar un poco más con este número.
I'm going to rotate them like this.
Los voy a rotar de este modo.
four-thirds as fast.
cuatro tercios más rápido.
around four times,
pasa cuatro veces,
this dot where the lines meet.
este punto donde las líneas se encuentran.
is the image of four-thirds.
de los cuatro tercios.
for a long time, but --
it sounds like this.
a sound, play the same A.
el sonido, tocamos el mismo do.
by four-thirds. (Beep)
por cuatro tercios. (Pitido)
I'm changing my perspective.
from another perspective.
desde otra perspectiva.
three beats at one time (Drumbeats)
tres tiempos a la vez (Tambor)
four times in that same space.
cuatro veces en ese mismo espacio.
but listen to them together.
pero escúchenlos juntos.
and play games with this number.
y jugar con este número.
¡Me encantan los cuatro tercios!
I love four-thirds!
at the volume of the sphere,
el volumen de la esfera,
of some particular cylinder.
un cilindro particular.
It's the volume of the sphere.
Es el volumen de la esfera.
to understand something
que significa entender algo
by understanding something.
por entender algo.
you understand something
from different perspectives.
diferentes perspectivas.
It's a beautiful R, right?
Es una hermosa R, ¿no?
you've seen a bunch of R's,
and found a pattern.
is saying something
and changing your perspective
to teach something,
another story, a metaphor, an analogy,
historia, una metáfora, una analogía,
from a different point of view,
un punto de vista diferente,
over everything you see and hear,
sobre lo que vieron y oyeron,
that will become easier for you.
eso les resultará fácil.
This is four triangles.
Son cuatro triángulos.
we're going to fold it up
los vamos a plegar
and put them together.
change our perspective,
cambiar de perspectiva,
around all of the axes
from another point of view,
but it looks a little different.
pero parece un poco diferente.
something else appears,
more about the object
algo más sobre el objeto
for creating understanding.
para crear entendimiento.
and put them together like this
y ponerlos juntos así
like the octahedron.
it around like this.
join them together and spin it around,
los juntan y los giran,
of an octahedron.
around the octahedron,
alrededor del octaedro,
is related to the octahedron.
se relacionan al octaedro.
and just pump it up,
y le inyecto aire,
a little bit like the octahedron.
tiene forma de octaedro.
a metaphor, stepping back --
with perspectives and analogies.
y analogías.
de diferentes maneras.
I'm making several narratives.
estoy creando varias narrativas.
make understanding possible.
hacen posible el entendimiento.
of understanding something.
de entender algo.
your perspective --
have a look at the ocean.
and view it up close.
from another perspective.
desde otra perspectiva.
a little bit more about the ocean.
un poco más sobre el océano.
we can kind of smell it, right?
podemos olerla, ¿cierto?
are different perspectives.
in mathematics and computer science.
en matemáticas e informática.
a structure from the inside,
desde dentro,
and we've taken this journey
cuando hacemos el viaje
for changing your perspective.
para cambiar de perspectiva.
and that you're sitting here.
que están sentados aquí.
from the outside.
are the most imaginative art forms ever.
las formas de arte más imaginativas.
from your perspective,
like from your perspective,
and this is all over computer science,
y sobrevuela la informática,
between empathy and these sciences.
entre la empatía y estas ciencias.
de cambiar de perspectiva.
to change your perspective.
try to change your perspective.
traten de cambiar de perspectiva.
de entrenar el cerebro.
makes your mind more flexible.
que la mente sea más flexible.
able to understand things.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Roger Antonsen - Logician, mathematician, computer scientistRoger Antonsen combines science, mathematics and computer science with entertainment, philosophy and visualizations.
Why you should listen
Roger Antonsen is a logician, mathematician, computer scientist, researcher, inventor, author, lecturer, science communicator and public speaker. He teaches logical methods as an associate professor at the Department of Informatics in the research group Logic and Intelligent Data (LogID) at the University of Oslo.
Antonsen is also engaged in various forms of science communication and outreach. His academic interests are logical calculi, proof theory, mathematical logic, complexity theory, automata, combinatorics, philosophy of mathematics, but he is interested in most topics related to mathematics, computer science and philosophy. His vision is to communicate science differently, to inspire creative thinking and to remove the common misconceptions about mathematics and computer science.
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