Okay, back to Maths for a quick wrap up:
- Let’s ask some “Mathemagical” questions to get our brains back to it…
Can you turn a sphere inside out?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6cgca4Mmcc
What is widely considered the most beautiful equation?Is Math a sign that God exists?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIMFgTW23Ho
- Statistics – we need to talk about this, just cuz every citizen should be warned… statistics is a useful tool for research, and for deepening our understanding of the world, but it can be highly deceptive. Be wary of Stats as proof. Statistics can manipulate our perceptions:
Is it true that 1 in 2 marriages end in divorce? We hear this stat everywhere… So, yes, beware of casual statistics myths: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/the-divorce-surge-is-over-but-the-myth-lives-on.html?smid=tw-share&abt=0002&abg=0&_r=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYy8oBUscm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7EvBxRYNMEhttp://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/bag-of-tricks/chap10.pdf
http://www.fastcompany.com/1822354/7-ways-lie-statistics-and-get-away-it
- Where is all this Math leading us humans to???
What about AI? Is this okay? What about the dangers of replication? Will Math mean the end of us?
Final question about Math is then, is it taking us where we want to go?