Philosophy from mathematics | Trace Hill | TEDxLSSU

Trace Hill, a student at Lake Superior State University speaks on how we can take philosophical concepts from mathematics and transfer them into our daily lives.

Trace Hill is a junior at LSSU with a major in Computer Engineering and minor in Mathematics. He works for the LSSU Engineering and Technology Department as an assistant in its Robotics Lab and is also a nationally-certified tutor of Mathematics at the LSSU Learning Center. In addition to work, Trace is an active member of the LSSU Honors Program, and is working on a senior thesis to develop an educational tool for visualizing and solving Physics equations. Aside from his studies, Trace is an avid musician, skier, and soccer player.

[sloatd]

Saw this talk live, and it was utterly amazing. Great job Trace.

[shahibnulsadekwafi]

Wow, this ted talk deserves a lot more views

[raghu_yadav_yt]

Great job. A profound lesson in less than 15 minutes. 👍👍👍

[evereststevens]

300 B.C. in Alexandria....

Which Alexandria?

[ariaalizadeh]

Really deep, meaningful and amusing.
I really liked how you used a mathematical story to help people understand how 2 complete different idea or belief can be both true at the same time without any contradiction.👍

[TmyLV]

A maginificent
presentation!!!wow...

[aum]

Great talk, but you can’t set aside right or wrong neither in life nor in mathematics, for right or wrong are really shorthand for coherent/incoherent, or consistent/inconsistent, or constructive/destructive.
I guess we should replace that with “look for implicit assumptions”, I.e. are we assuming the paper is flat?
The goal is to try to make more things right, so that less and less violence has be justified.
I consider excluding people if they are perceived as wrong as violence, because we are inherently social.

[jamezz]

Differences in perspective will pervade all of mathematics not just geometry.

[OnlyAFlame]

it makes me think of applying a working method to many different working dimensions here now and in life :)

[rudra]

Hey guys, I have a question. At 5:49 can that figure be considered a triangle?

[ndmath]

Everything boils down to geometry (/geometries)

[shnig]

Weird....phyllosophy wants me to not see if I'm right or wrong and let my imagination flows with my own thoughts and my own perspective meanwhile schools do the exact opposite...