Mathematicians used to always win the Math Olympics and are good at mental calculation? Are these prejudices true? That's what we wanted to find out in this “Hot Seat” episode. We put the scientists at TU Dresden to the test and found out which math clichés are true. We also meet the music-playing mathematician DorFuchs, who as Johann Beurich is a doctoral student at TU Dresden.
How do you discover new formulas? What is your favorite number? How many decimal places of pi can you recite? Why do so many people dislike math at school? Find out the answers in our video.
Faculty of Mathematics at TU Dresden 👉 tu-dresden.de/mn/math
Bachelor's degree in mathematics 👉 tud.de/sins/ba-math
Master's degree in mathematics 👉 tud.de/sins/ma-math
DorFuchs’s channel 👉 / @dorfuchs
Content:
00:00 Intro
00:35 Introductions
01:08 Why did you choose math?
01:59 Why do many people dislike math at school?
02:51 Is there still anything new to explore?
03:59 Is math just an auxiliary science?
04:30 Did you always win the Math Olympics at school?
05:19 What's your favorite number?
05:57 How many digits of pi can you remember?
06:25 What can you become if you study math?
07:28 Do you even need a calculator?
08:10 Mental calculation task 10:02 End
Hot Seat:
Each episode focuses on a different group of people who all have something in common - be it that they share the same workplace, same degree program, or same research area. We ask them questions from our community and do away with clichés and prejudices.
A degree in Math?
The scientific language of our time is the language of mathematics. It is indispensable for natural and engineering sciences, computer science, economics and social sciences. At TU Dresden, you can study mathematics at Bachelor's and Master's level (in English). During the first 3 semesters, you will acquire fundamental knowledge as an indispensable prerequisite for all forms of specialization in mathematics: Analysis, linear algebra, programming for mathematicians, ordinary differential equations and integration on manifolds, algebra, measure and integral, numerical mathematics and stochastics.
More information 👉 tu-dresden.de/mn/math/studien...
Editing: Karl J. Donath, Anne-Ailine Krause
Production: Philipp Schulze
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