A Genius Mathematician Suggested This Simple Idea — And It Could Transform The Way You Do Math

In this video I talk about a famous quote by French Mathematician Blaise Pascal. What do you think? Please leave any comments below.
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[okeanskiy]

"I missed my turn."

- Blaise Pascal

[shigaeki]

When doing mathematics, you don't just look at a wall, while sitting alone in a room. There are times when you also bang your head against it. But then you go for a walk on your own without music, observe nature, then come back and sit down again. Alone looking at the wall. And you finally find your way through the problem. That's how one mathematically grows

[edwardsmith-rowland]

“All of humanity's problems, stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - Blaise Pascal

[blossoms]

My favorite quote from Pascal (well I think he said this) is "The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know." He was a man who loved to think, whether it was doing math or philosophizing. But he realized not only that emotions and feelings gave meaning to what we discover through reason, but that some things lie completely beyond our powers of thinking--and lie only in the heart. Which are those things? Maybe it takes sitting quietly in a room to find out.

[Hofer]

My tips for learning math:
1) Be consistent.
You have to have a good reason not to learn math. Every art needs consistency, including the art of learning.
2)Use your tools.
You must be able to do math with pen and paper. But you should also be able to use a CAS efficiently.

[avonmus]

Reminds me of a quote from Albert Camus
"The Absurd rises out of two contrasting stances:-The human need for meaning and the apparent meaningless of the universe"

[RoscoesRiffs]

Covid spurred my continuing math education. It taught me to use and relish solitude. I had an old Algebra 1 textbook. I worked every problem in it -- and kept going. I'm working at Calculus 2 now.

[blackviking]

I love your channel. Thank you for bringing high quality educational content to us. Pascal was one smart guy!

[emanuellandeholm]

I sometimes do math when I'm out walking. It's not easy to do math without pen and paper, but it's a fun exercise. When I get home I reach for a notebook, and then I correct all the mistakes I made in my head. It's a humbling experience.

[matheo]

I love this concept or philosophy, not because I support that, but because I tried this myself (in reality, everyone tried without noticing) and by being "bored" you're able to know yourself more, get in touch with your thoughts and big ideas come in this state of mind, even though doing math maybe is not the same as what I'm talking about, I really found a similarity between these two. I really enjoyed hearing you and sharing it! Great content great channel great person. ❤

[kenneth_romero]

actually indians have known this since 1500+ bce. They have a book called "The Upanishads" which talks about how to obtain a better knowledge of oneself that revolves around meditation. It's really more about controlling your mind and being able to slow it down enough to individually see each thought and process through it. allowing one to increase their ability to concentrate and focus on an individual thought, idea or action for longer. greeks also were approaching this till socratic thinking was the major philosophy, though, i believe the stoics stoics were the closest western civilization that had the same ideas or close to it.

[pubbliwebb]

You will enjoy reading "When Einstein Walked with Gödel" by Jim Holt,
essays on mathematics, philosophy, and physics.

[hemrajue]

It's all their habit. Some people hesitate to sit alone and study. Others, like to sit alone and study as they don't like any kind of disturbance. But being a professional, you need to balance it.

[sillymesilly]

Meditation is another thing required to be quiet by your self

[jonw]

There is a lot of truth to that quote. I wish we had a lot more mathematicians in this country and the whole world.

[quantumquackery]

I think that it’s necessary to be capable of both profound stability in isolation and shameless breadth of connection with the very world of fomentation we substantiate.

[shawnirwin]

Please be mindful, in 2021, 3, 522 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers, representing 8% of all traffic fatalities just in the U.S.A. Please be careful, driving is one of the most dangerous activities people do, and the statistics reflect that. When you do something like miss a turn, you should see it as a warning . . . . be safe! Former truck driver here . . . . getting careless can be fatal.

[autodidact]

Hi math sorcerer, one of marcus aurelius's ideas is that the mind can serve as a refuge where you can access an internal calm while other things may be happening externally (less expensive than a beach vacation). I think a great analogy is crate training with dogs. I don't want to describe the crate training process here but I have seen a dog be able to change how it sees its kennel as a place where it is confined to a place where goes willingly and often

[rc]

to me, doing math is very much like creating art and surfing... yes surfing... you have to find your muse and catch the wave of inspiration to make the most out of it...

[SushilSharma-vpcx]

Those voices in your head will shine the light of imagination to imagine the right things and forget about this world just for sometime