Danica McKellar, UCLA Dept. of Mathematics 2007 Commencement Address

[@fred.chapman]

10:59 "And the beauty and the patterns that we find in math, to me, that's us studying the beauty of the human mind." That's profound, and I couldn't agree more! As McKellar said, mathematics is not something we extract from nature -- it comes from our own imaginations. This is what sets math apart from all other sciences -- we get to explore worlds that we create ourselves. The video gets infinity thumbs up from this hard-core math geek.

[@terrapin52]

Danica is so friggin' cool! I love this speech!

[@technologywontsaveus]

Pretty, smart and funny. Impressive. It's nice to hear a little bit of Winnie in her voice still though I wouldn't recognize without seeing her. Really nice presentation, very charming.

[@delturge]

Thank you, Danica--I want to emphasize the Danica part--for those inspiring words. I like math, but I never got past pre-calculus. I think I could have, if I could have focused more on just math. However, that would have been at the expense of other studies, which I am also grateful for. The good news is that I can pick up my math books any time. Also, what an inspiring story. Good luck to you, Danica.

[@tkdmmalover]

it's funny how in the beginning she says she's bad with numbers because she's awesome at math. danica is smart, funny, nice, and pretty. she's awesome.

[@vargo0515]

ADVANCED MATH , HELPS TO GO BEYOND AVERAGE ! ENGINEERING , PHYSICS, GENETICS, COMPUTERS, BUSINESS ," ADVANCED MONEY!GOD BLESS HER SHES EXTREMELY GORGEOUS!💞💗❤😍😘 SWEETHEART,

[@KemptonLam]

awesome speech!

[@evanstafford55]

Great commencement speech.

[@cjbatesii]

Math is about the relations between and properties of numbers, not the numbers themselves. I often reverse digits because I am mildly dyslexic, but I am reviewing Calculus on my own, but I've been as far as DiffEq and will go much farther in Algebra, too...

[@akira1068]

Gotta love her! Beauty and Brains! I wish I had her as my math teacher when I was younger...=)

[@clash5j]

She'll always be Winnie

[@delturge]

Better for the world that she be more than Winnie.

[@Alexandre-Senne]

hey winnie,please,come to brazil!!!we love you...well,i love you!!

[@juliop929]

Wow its always nice to see a beautiful women who doesn't rely on looks

[@SrikanthSridhara]

she's so beautiful and smart!! perfect!!

[@skateshacksample]

takeaways in mathematics; what the world needs now

[@vjpillay]

If mathematicians look only for beauty in maths ,they find it may be regarded as ugly by non-mathematicans? She wanted to be a Film major end up with Maths major.I wanted to be an engineer when i was 5, brilliant in maths with prizes from top school to go with,i did not weaver from what i wanted to be. Richard Feyman entered MIT to accouting dept ,and he was guided by his professor to do engineering ,which he did not like did physics to go with father's wish according to his story.

[@oneiam]

I think this speech pretty much proves she's a math major.

[@buzziewuzzie]

me too! i started my math masters this year and people always ask me to calculate stuff, but i'm horrible at it!

[@dude10]

Prof Chayes was my 1st prof! 32A!

[@FM897]

I'm a math minor and can't calculate a tip in my head for sh*t. I totally understand, Danica!!!

[@seanshortall3983]

Remarkable

[@fielbahia]

Queria uma palestra dessa linda aqui no Brasil.

[@MakeupNmath]

ha ha that is sooo true about the whole everyday arithmatic vs. classroom proof math! Sooo true Danica!!!!

[@sevadaj]

Danica Mckellar is beautiful and Intelligent.

[@BaganJermal]

A physicist, a biologist and a mathematician are sitting in a street café watching people entering and leaving the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people entering the house. Time passes. After a while they notice three people leaving the house. The physicist says, "The measurement wasn't accurate." The biologist says, "They must have reproduced." The mathematician says, "If one more person enters the house then it will be empty."

[@manololecortez]

she is beautiful, intelligent and she likes soccer , just like here in latin american, shes is perfect

[@FM897]

I heard a few laughs and I could be wrong but I think the volume of the outside noise was turned down so that we could hear her. I'm not positive about that, though.

[@83Mysterio]

She`s funny. And smart and good looking. IMO she looks better there than in the last two seasons of Wonder years. LOL I can´t like say that she was good looking or like hot when she was young but she was cute in the first episodes of Wonder years. Both she and Fred Savage were great actors when they were young and they didn´t end up taking drugs like some other child actors.

[@joeydsa]

Well, this was an interesting talk

[@djdeac]

Been there...

[@FM897]

Good luck with your masters program, by the way :)

[@vjpillay]

Maths got a pretty girl in holywood? Great for maths and film. In my days those who were brilliant in maths did engineering. I had instructed a very pretty and clever girl in engineering.She did PhD in UCLA, now president of a university in Canada. This actress is right in many ways,when i met a maths professor who is considered a present day einstein,i told him what i thought of mathematicians. Why appreciate only beauty in equations? why can't ugly and beauty coexist like in nature?

[@speedlearner]

@lupeepes If you want to see all of Euclid's proofs, then feel free to stop by my channel.

[@OscarBravoUSA]

She was 32 at the time of this commencement speech. She may have earned her B.S., but she still talks like a teenager.

[@Tr0nzoid]

It's a generational thing. "Talking like a teenager" wasn't the same fifty years ago. If for example someone had a so-called Valley Girl accent, that person grew up keeping that accent. It's not like her vocabulary is poor. She just has a certain inflection and perkiness.

[@FM897]

Haha, nice. It's good to know we're not alone.

[@JOHNNYWADTON]

When she said "trust me, if you think he is scary in the classroom, you haven't seen him on the ice" and then at 0:45-0:46 she does a sexual innuendo sign, a "huge penis size" hand gesture using her two index fingers to denote a long length. That means we can probably assume that she was "dating" professor Lincoln Chayes and they got to know each other in a "deeper" way.

[@DavidVonR]

Math helps with everything ... except social skills.

[@jimmyliew64]

She was so cute in the TV series (forgot the name)

[@UCLA]

Hmm...Justice League? Inspector Mom? The West Wing?

[@anthonyreyes1828]

The wonder years. She was Winnie Cooper

[@jltaco85]

the TV series was called brazzers!

[@djdeac]

at 7:56 or so, she starts thinking about calculating probability ("hmmm, what ARE the odds..."). Hilarity!

[@83Mysterio]

@evilh0ly LOL I have never liked math but now I kind of like it. It´s almost fun when you learn stuff and figure out how to solve something. My favorite subject in school was art. The thing that sucks with school is home work. That´s torture LOL.

[@imbluz]

She is honestly describing to them that basic arithmetic and Calculus are fundamentally different enterprises. She is genuine in her speech.

[@cipher200086]

LOL! @ 7:12 - 8:16 totally agree with danica :D

[@ltcfisica]

I am a theoretical physicist and for me she is just perfect, "Danica, will you marry me?"...hehehehe

[@EppingForest304]

I think she prefers Acting over Maths for her career

[@regingwapo]

@Albertolo1928 umm you don't know what you're talking about

[@LawrenceDuffy477]

I'm full of BS too.

[@junkboxxxxxx]

An ultra girly-girl, finishing every sentence with a question mark, and does she ever stop flapping her arms? But she's cute, so she pulls it off.

[@aztttttt]

Great actress, Big fan. Not that great of a speech though,haha tries too hard with her jokes.

[@tkdmmalover]

lol, BS...

[@rodneyh1947]

Sounds like she acted through her whole education. UCLA has a very superficial side and it shows. She is wrong, math is extracted from nature. It is discovered, humans did not make it up. If she understood what postulates actually are she would know. Also co-publishing doesn't mean jack shit, any professor can put you as a co-author if he/she likes you enough regardless if you really significantly contributed. Now if you are the lead author, then that is a different story. UCLA is the most prolific in brand name pandering out of all universities, probably USC comes in second. Just look at their sports and propensity of collecting celebrities among their alumni. Even Lavar ball is attached to the brand of UCLA I am not surprised. His son committed a petty crime in a foreign nation. How stupid is that. UCLA material for sure. Superficial, no actual substance. The real intellectuals are in princeton, standford, UC berkeley, etc.. Any school that focuses on sports that much like UCLA and USC, their academics is superficial at best. Inflated prestige. Any of those pre highschool math books Danica published are mediocre, any one can publish a book at that level, all you need to do is copy other books, find a publisher and put your own writing style in it. If she came out with a book on Clifford algebra and a form of new analysis, that would be different. I just hate how UCLA touts just to bring attention to their brand like they are Nike, Gatorade, etc. For god sakes, you are a high learning institution, stop acting like a god damn corporation.