What is the basic building block of all mathematics? (A surprising answer!)
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Published 2014-09-21
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you know he's a good teacher when he's got me watching these videos for fun
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I think Eddie Woo might just be the basic building block of education! This is what a great educator look like!
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"But what is three?" vsauce music kicks in
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"I don't want you to shout out any answers." Mr. Woo is flexing on us with how much engagement he's getting.
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I am a retired instrumentation technician and a Maths lover....I must say this guy is a wonderful teacher. :)
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>division by zero >YEEESSS wow that is some enthusiastic student. Probs.
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Good teacher!
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I haven't even watched the whole video yet, but i love how at around 0:30 you kill that chatter in the background without even saying a word and without breaking your train of thought. It wasn't even a particularly angry or threatening look either, but it perfectly got the point across.
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For some reason I always imagined the door on the other side of the room
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The correct answer is the laws of logic (identity, contradiction, excluded middle). The only inviolate rule of math is: contradiction is forbidden. Set theory is a formalization of identity and non-contradiction.
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For the record: Atoms are indivisible in the sense that if you take a block of iron, and cut it in two, you have two blocks of iron. If you take two atoms of iron and cut in two, you have two separate atoms of iron. If you take an atom of iron and cut in two, it's no longer iron.
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There should be the "Woo" standard named in honor of Eddy & any teachers NOT achieving this standard of teaching excellence, should get retrained or told to try a different career path! Some of my teachers had all the energy & motivation of a stone! How can the likes of these motivate & inspire their students? Eddy makes maths not just interesting but real FUN!!!
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I thought the answer was axioms
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The two primitive “building blocks” of math are sets, and the relation “is an element of”, that tells us if something is or is not “in” a set.
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I love it that an enthusiastic, young, Australian math teacher has almost a MILLION subscribers! I’m a subscriber and I haven’t taken a math course in many decades. He just makes it fun and interesting.
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Fantastic, thank you.
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Damn this guy is a fricking king. Makes a math class soooo much fun. I’d love to rewind time....jump on a plane to Australia just so I can have classes under him
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Zero is a good answer: all algorithms should start with the empty case as the base case; many design errors derive from failure to handle this!
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"There are two ways of doing anything, the smart way and the dumb way. When you do it the smart way, that's mathematics." Famous definition from a now anonymous grade-school kid in Lawrence, Mass.
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15:45 the knowledge has reached his destination.
