Groundbreaking Math Discovery From The 1700s w/ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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[slicklick_]

Theo isnt the right person for this convo 😂

[matinmohebi]

You be surprised how many times we discovered sanitary sewers and forgot again.

[lokijam]

the one that blows my mind is it took almost a hundred years after the written language was created for people to read without speaking the words. the first person that was able to read silently and recite the page back was thought to be a magician.

[BigLiftsITA]

Many people don't know why the average is meaningful

[lawrencedoliveiro]

Not too surprising, when you realize that people’s intuitions about probability tend to be notoriously misleading. Examples: Birthday Paradox, Monty Hall problem.

[raydenn]

That's a mean, mode to be on the median strip 😂😂😂

[danmiller]

Normal people have known it intuitively. Its the nitpicking scientists that obsessed with getting it on paper. The invention of the printing press helped math and science progress. For profit.

[ernimuja]

Pretty sure people understood discrete probability well enough.

Calculus simply gives us the means to deal with continuous probabilities.

[dominicellis]

Weird that the integral is an average value over an interval multiplied by that interval. So basically, the average velocity is the area under the acceleration curve scaled by the desired interval. In a lot of ways statistics is simply an application of the fundamental theorem of calculus on schotastic domains.

[yellowdart]

that's how i be thinking about base planing.

[Swinefeld]

Probability and statistics should be a mandatory class for grade school students.

[MrManAmong]

I wanted to hate Theo Von since his MTV/Real World/Road Rules days but he was the only one watchable back then. He’s managed to stay at least semi-relevant and not be super annoying. That’s about all you can ask for from any celebrity. It’s also crazy cool that he isn’t scared to talk to anyone or say anything. He manages to make even racist jokes not be super offensive. That’s talent.

[georgespalding]

NDT having a conversation in a podcast with Theo is like Einstein having a conversation with a two-year-old chimpanzee. Although I have to admit it still is kind of an interesting banter.

[HaIsKuL]

I can fully understand how human intellectual development grasped the concept of chances before the infinitesimal.

[humbleevidenceaccepter]

This is still beyond the comprehension of many people. Look it all the people that still believe in gods and Creationism.

[pfranks]

Probably and statistics are the only part of math I like and understand.

[MesquiteMan]

Math seems like a way of writing what our brain already does without us realizing. Algebra is very difficult for me if not applied to anything in reality, but when roofing it's hardly even necessary for me, though slope and division and measurements are required, it's all very obvious in a tangible observable situation .

[AdrianLopez-sbeo]

If the writer of the paper used the words "average of numbers" then the concept of averaging must have already existed and thought to be important enough to give it a name.

[jl-fyzj]

How the hell did these two individuals end up in the same room?

[eilliwwasniahc]

Once common people had no concept of "zero" or negative numbers. These are not concrete things. It is not counting on your fingers. Some people think of college calculus as a "weed out" corse. I'm pretty sure I have only heard people who have been "weeded out" claim this. Maybe in a way it is. It checks to see if you are capable of learning to think in the abstract. Why is statistics also so hard? Again, it isn't counting goats in your field. It isn't something obvious. You have to stretch your brain and learn how to think about things you cannot hold in your hand.