How to Read Math

Lots of people find mathematical equations intimidating because they don't make sense. But they are not hard to understand if you follow a few steps, anyone can learn to read them. And it is well worth it because they are so incredibly useful to describe everything in math and physics. If you already know I'm sure you know someone who might like this video, I'm going to send it to my family who are less mathematically inclined than me.

The steps you need to know are: 1. Find the variables, 2. Work out what all of the different mathematical symbols mean, 3. Wok out what order you would perform the mathematical operations if you were going to plug numbers in to the equations. These steps really help you get your head around what an equation is telling you. Also, don't be scared about the greek letters, they do just the same thing as normal letters, they either represent constants or variables.

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This is a cheat sheet with a lot of the basic mathematical notation you will come across in popular science.

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[davideravasini]

I have a bachelor's degree in mathematics. What am I doing here?

[dar_jada]

I am grateful for this. Not being able to do math is a little like not being able to read. I feel shut out of a whole world. You’ve given me a glimpse and it’s exhilarating. I’ve viewed your TEDx vid on quantum physics over and over. At 68 years old, it gives me the feeling that i experienced as a child staring at the sky and thinking about the concept of infinity. How wonderous and mysterious is this reality! Thank you for opening up new doors of perception.

[hemerythrin]

Little mistake at 4:20, it's a sigma, not epsilon

[ScopeofScience]

This was excellent! I'm impressed by how much ground you covered so clearly in this vid. Are you going to do more math vids? I would watch that "whole other video" on calculus :)

[nsa]

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[jacquesfrancois]

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I'd just like to thank you for videos like these and all the motivation + education they provide us. Cheers mate!

[planktonfun]

I don't know why educational facilities don't bother to make visuals as everyday learning material. they like to encrypt things and hope that we unencrypt them and learn it. its an inefficient learning process given to what technology we have today.

[FrozenSpector]

Please do more videos like this. I found it incredibly helpful to visualize mathematics.
Consider Philosophy and Logic Symbols next (iff; A ⇒ B ; ∀ n ∈ ℕ: n2 ≥ n. ; etc)
Thanks!

[borisj]

Oh, how I wish I had this explanation back in the Seventies when I was in Highschool. It would have saved years of anguish. So clear and informative. I can remember the horror of trying to make sense of Letters suddenly appearing in Sums and the pain it caused me. Bloody dreadful teachers back then, probably got off with a power trip of superiority of knowledge over us ordinary kids.

[danielbloom]

I love calculus you should do a whole video on it

[Sfb]

i wish i had content like this when I was younger. It wouldve helped me a lot to better understand math. the way my teachers taught me or the books just made me more confused which was why math was always my weakest subject growing up.

[lawyerandco]

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[alteor]

3:34 - Displays Greek alphabet
4:20 - Calls the sigma (sum symbol) an epsilon

[seanferrari]

Can't do maths.... Too difficult, I've tried given up

[pedroabranches]

Missed you! Keep up with the great content man

Btw, just entering college to study computer science. I wish to follow the academic path, and you truly inspire me. Thanks!

[Justsomeoneyoucouldhaveknown]

0:25 - 0:50
In less then 30 seconds, you clarified what 20 years of schooling could not.
Thank you ❤️

[stephenstruble]

Step 4. Make sure you are comfortable with your calculator. I know with mine depending on whether I'm entering degrees, radians, or gradient I can switch between those modes. If I want decimal notation then I set my calculator to approximate and if I don't want decimal notation then I set it to exact. Just make sure that when you enter in the values it conforms to the order of operations.

[lwxcfkl]

Im a ninth grader in highschool right now, and i have looked all over the internet. There was never any channel as helpful as domain of science, you helped me so much, i dont really understand alot of it, but i know i'll get there someday. This chanel explains so well. I just want to say thank you!

[H.Hardrada]

I feel this is the most difficult part about learning mathematics. When someone explains it in words, I have no problem. When I have to stare at these hieroglyphics, im lost within moments.

[dida]

Thank you so much for this video!

Correction: The letter at 4:21 is not an Epsilon, but a Sigma.