How did I learn Calculus?🤔 w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson

[@maximeprometheas]

"I'm loving me some Calculus." "S**t..." Now _that_ is a conversation you don't often overhear at a party...

[@EduardGabrielMunteanu]

Now replace calculus by meth in mostly everything that he said... "I will never understand this, I remember saying that to myself... Lemme just try... Heeeeey! I like it and I need it to solve my problems. I'm loving me some..."

[@BoushoC]

Unless I'm there.

[@BoushoC]

Still didn't make it my personality.

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

Until now, I always believed he was human. 🤔

[@zuhairgoolfee395]

Shhhiiiiieeeeeetttttttt

[@darrenhepperle4854]

The most awesome thing to me about calculus is that it's a bunch of shortcuts. Instead of a page or more of working algebraic calculations, you have 2 or 3 lines of clculating calculus functions to get the same answer to the same original problem.

[@ogdocvato]

Crazy to think that Issac Newton invented calculus because he needed it for Principia.

[@escoosy1763]

Legitimately underrated comment

[@jmaniak1]

At 24 years old no less.

[@a.w.andrews9146]

Issac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz co-invented calculus.

[@_lisan_al_gaib]

co-invented makes it sound like they developed it together lol@@a.w.andrews9146

[@jamesquinn4467]

Crazier that lil Wayne rhymes mansion with Wisconsin at 23

[@Wheat_Thinn]

As John von Neumann once said "...in mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

[@JayJay-ye7ic]

Notice he said "you", not "I". Dude was a monster

[@rami-succar7356]

what if i do understand it though?

[@DerekHise]

​@@rami-succar7356During the Big Bang, the math shows us that time rotated out of the imaginary axis. If you can help me build a grounded intuition for what that means, lemme know. 'Cause I can do the abstract math for the Wick rotation. Simpler yet, I can work with things in the complex plane. ...But I have no real sense of what “imaginary time” actually means in any practical sense. I had to get used to that.

[@rami-succar7356]

@DerekHise well yeah, nobody will teach you how to "imagine" maths. different for each person. i personally can understand as far as 4 spacial dimentions before sticking to just following rules. maths boil down to conceptual understanding, rather than any other kind. it is also the only domain where conceptual understanding is enough

[@blockvfive1196]

Dont get used to it work on your understanding every time you think about it, in sort of a crazy way

[@peoplebelievealiensarereal]

That "hey" is awesome 😂

[@ramanamaksimal21]

His explanatory style and statements are insightfully inspirational. I had never been impressed by any scientists until I listened to him and was enlightened profoundly.

[@AngryAmphibian]

He is an addled butt bomb of incompetence. So much of his material is confused and wrong. Fortunately for Neil, his audience is completely clueless. So they don't notice when Neil botches basic math and physics.

[@Ceeedar]

ChatGPT Bot

[@viz8746]

Same here: It took me FOREVER to understand what a "limit" was in 11th Grade Math, but once I did, I got through differentiation and integration and even partial and series like it was child's play. Calculus is more a "knack" - it's not like Linear Algebra which is harder.

[@joejackson3668]

He has a fun way to explain things

[@Fireatank]

I Concur ... flunked High school Calculus ... screwed up plans fof university, so had to go to summer school ... sucked ... started to work my way through the problems, every day, lived with family friends who had no TV ... best thing ever. Got through calculus and went to university. 40 years ago and I still have no TV. 😳😲🤯🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠

[@clavo3352]

I had a similar survival experience without a TV.

[@RobertMoreno-sn6ds]

First scientist I’d like to have lunch with!!!😎

[@dumguyawesome]

He's not a scientist. He's nothing

[@williamgilbert2573]

That's why you go algebra, geometry, trig, and then calculus

[@feetfunkerson1312]

☹️

[@ilicktrains8304]

Maths is either completely trivial, or completely impossible when you see it, there is no inbetween

[@pettytoni1955]

In college (a night school program), I ended up in a calculus study group who's members were all math-challenged. Regrettably, the professor had no patience and was openly distainful. We hired a tutor who taught AP Calc to bright high schoolers. He was terrific. We recommended him to replace the college professor. He was thrilled to have the steady part-time work, as he and his wife were expecting twins.

[@clarencehambrick5003]

That's how I feel about learning Spanish with Duolingo! 😅

[@melissahess9743]

NDT is so amazing. All those brains and can make everything understandable

[@randomzero3]

It felt like I had missed 3 months of school. On the very first day, the teacher said and wrote things I had no conceivable notion of deciphering. Looking around, the other students seemed perfectly content with their fancy calculators. The next day, I changed my elective to a psychology class. I learned those other students were crazy.

[@pauldavidcrisp]

Calculus: An exercise in problem solving. Just keep your signs in the right place.

[@johnmeye]

I too fell in love with calculus, it is so cool

[@absalom0412]

What's so cool about it?

[@syedarman4172]

​@@absalom0412there are 2 sides of calculus 1. The physics and applicable maths side which is very interesting 2. The mathematicians side which is nonsense, useless, unnecessary, like a self made game. I would prefer that you do applicable maths because pure maths is just nonsense.

[@absalom0412]

@syedarman4172 The only applicable math that makes sense to me is geometry, cause you actually need for architecture and building things. Algebra and calculus mainly applies to engineering and other hard sciences like physics.

[@jimdevilbiss9125]

I’m definitely with you. Our high school did not have calculus. They had pre-Cal, which wasn’t really that. Went to college yeah whole bunch of things that finally made sense. Jump forward many years and I was teaching Cal three where you get to apply all the lines to lots of real life situations.

[@h.c.9738]

You had a good teacher. Not all teachers teach, some just test to see if you figured it out yourself.

[@kuki7205]

Great tie

[@mikefetterman6782]

I was the opposite. In 9th grade, I was a business class student who was thrown into algebra due to scheduling conflicts. I started strong, but within 3 months, I couldn't pass a test to save my life. DAILY, I would spend a study hall with the teacher, my younger sister was in the same class and tutored me plus i took Algebra help class every week. I passed Algebra with a 19%. The teacher said "you tried harder than anyone I have seen to understand it. It is my failing as a teacher that you didn't learn it. " She let me pass due to effort.

[@misterwhipple2870]

I had a professor in college that did the same for me. I flunked Calc and took it over, but I failed it again, but came close. The Dean would not allow people to take stuff three times, so the professor gave me a Gentleman's D-Minus.

[@Bushido21XX]

I'm convinced that all school is, all it REALLY is, is a place where young people learn how to build confidence by doing things they didn't think they could.

[@kaukase539]

Imagine Isaac Newton! He invented that stuff. Even a very smart guy like NDT needs 4 month to understand it! Isaac invented it 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@syedarman4172]

Lmao don't compare old GOATS to new frauds. They are so engaged in making things complex that they don't wanna understand it and once they do its like they have won life. Newton only saw that certain things vary with each other. For example work done by spring force or gravitational or electrostatic force, the magnitude of force varies with displacement. Since work is F.S so you need to find certain tools so that you can multiply and add elementary changed things to get the actual value. And calculus is extremely easy to understand, and very interesting when it comes to applications but the worst thing in the world when mathematicians (useless creatures) give an apparently un-integrable expression and force us to solve them. Why should i take up useless challenges to show my talent when i can counter almost any kind of real life problems

[@KirstenLeafromItaly]

Calculus was my jam in high school. I tutored it before I even had the class. I was basically a human calculator until a massive brain trauma a few years ago. Now I can’t do single digit addition without a calculator or my fingers. . . Fun times.

[@orealz]

I loved math until I was suddenly thrust in algebra. I didn't get it at all, and the teachers were useless so I just went off it.

[@amountainneverseemstohavet7624]

I minored in Mathematics in undergrad. I learned to love that progression from being a blank slate... to the week that the new concepts 'click' with a Big 'Ahaaa' Moment ! That Moment always felt Amazing ! ( But you have to be able to be 'completely lost' & struggle for a few weeks... Then, everytime "It Clicks !" with an "Ohhh !!!" Lollll

[@SWTORLOL87]

I’ve been out of the game for awhile but isn’t going from algebra to calculus skipping a couple steps? If I’m remembering correctly trig is the base to start with before venturing into calculus.

[@amountainneverseemstohavet7624]

@@SWTORLOL87 Great question. Yes, in order, trig is between algebra and calculus. I believe he was speaking of the conceptual jump... not necessarily the sequence of classes. Calculus is a far leap in concepts beyond what students have before calculus... when we think of the progression from Arithmetic (~1st grade)... to algebra... to geometry... to trigonometry... following this progression, the conceptual leaps required to understand calculus are larger. Not saying that the other conceptual steps do not have their own levels of difficultly... It's just that calculus requires a larger step / a larger leap in thinking to understand the concepts. It's a challenge for most of us to wrap our minds around.

[@SWTORLOL87]

@@amountainneverseemstohavet7624 You’re not wrong. I got a 98 in precal while using it as my nap class. That’s not hyperbole. But calculus, which I got into before precal for math team reasons, just lost all intuitiveness. *That Newton was a wild cat. **If he was standing on the shoulders of giants then he was crushing them with his titanic size. Alright, I’ll stop fanboying.

[@amountainneverseemstohavet7624]

@@SWTORLOL87 Yeah, Newton was that Dude. Mind Blowing! Most people don't believe in their imagination ! Funny thing, I did something like the napping. Pre-Cal was called, 'Senior Math.' I leaned on my intuition... & spent too much time 'not paying attention.' But then, calculus came & I spent the 1st 3-months feeling like they were explaining it wrong. 😆 "There's got to be a better way to teach this !??" Lolll 🤣

[@KennethParone]

It's either you hate or fear things you don't understand

[@stitchgrimly6167]

What about respect, awe, admiration, astonishment, fascination, reverence etc? If fear and hate are your only responses to novelty you could probably address that.

[@robn2497]

There is the notation mountain everyone has to climb. Alot not all mathematical ideas once unpacked are not too difficult.

[@nomukun1138]

"I need them to solve problems I want to solve!" If you get that feeling you can learn any skill. That's the key.

[@ArildKnutsen-y1b]

This is very cool and very inspiring

[@laughingvampire7555]

well, if you take it from the pov of inventing it then yes, but if you take it from the pov of learning it, is just an incremental jump forward, from arithmetic to algebra you have to learn the concept of a variable, and from algebra to calculus you have to learn two concepts, function and limits and everything else is just plain algebra.

[@KantzKy]

"There's not even an equal sign" is so on point

[@annieperdue6140]

I felt the same way about programming

[@kelumo7981]

Richard Dawkins explained this principle in his book,and most of his talks ...he calls it "climbing Mount Impossible "you can either try to climb it on the steeper side,doing so requires much more effort and carries painful risks,however climbing it on the smooth and less steeper side may take longer and is longwinded but you'd finally reach the top

[@brothergrimm9656]

Unlike Mr Tyson calculus was my roadblock in school. Algebra, geometry and trigonometry were no issue but calculus was the point that my brain just went "NOPE".

[@pt5728]

Trigonometry was my biggest issue in maths, just thinking about it gives me a headache

[@komlatselougou8369]

That's inspirational. I need this now. I've started bootstrap and react, and I have felt lost. But little by little I understand them. Thanks

[@eanoworro1028]

The fact that you read CALCULUS and still opened the book is a testament!

[@Kube-Themathsolver]

i learnt differential calculus when i was in 9th grade for solvinng physics problem. so i began trying to understand it by seeing 3blue1brown's calculus course, and it was very useful to learn early for appearing in the NSEP. u can rlly play with calculus when u understand it.

[@keithkasnik743]

Calculus is amazing and powerful. It's not easy to learn, but once you do there's no stopping to potential

[@killerystax]

"Yo bro, pass me some Calculus"

[@frgwyn3760]

“I can’t, your already approaching the limit”

[@prrosenkrantz]

I fell in love with calculus

[@frstchan]

I remember seeing equations for the first time and I was like WTF is this?!

[@davidcarter6491]

Happened with Graduate Economics

[@ReignyCleary1]

such a massive nerd Neil lol ....love it!

[@nieshamccoy9419]

I get what he's saying. I don't exactly like math. I'm taking calculus again because I got a D. It is kind of foreign, but i started to understand it a little bit

[@LouieInOK]

This guy is amazing.

[@tobyneale8055]

Love it 😊

[@ruhamahsouffrant8246]

Yes, I felt the same way. I got a B+ 🤯🤓😎🤣

[@albertyu8262]

i can say, I went from arithmetic to algebra yet I can't open a calculus book without having a mental breakdown.

[@themachine9000]

Yeah exactly lol

[@Rise6474]

For reference this was Neil's response in PE when the coach asked why he forgot his gym clothes

[@troublemethis17]

i passed the class, as honors students do, without understanding a damned thing. now, not only don't i recall anything about it, i don't remember when and where i took it.

[@rickmemmer5625]

Well, I wasn’t an honors student or anything remotely close. But I took 7 math courses at Purdue (5 of them calculus - 3 of which were engineering-based and other 2 business). I don’t remember it and don’t directly use it, but it paid off in my methodical approach to problem solving (whether it’s my job or anything else). Same goes with how world history and music appreciation massively paid off in shaping and forever refining how I think. And above all else - a nation that no longer understands how to understand - is how we got here. As an honors student, you should be able to blow me out of the water with your critical thinking skills. On an SAT test and other academic areas, I’m sure you could. But outside of that - you have no chance when it comes to ascertaining the truth. On that, I'll put my abilities against anyone. You wasted your gift (I can tell that on your attitude alone). I didn’t have one - but made the most of what I have and still do. And lo and behold, in a world where easy is all the rage, I still love the work -- the demands of difficulty and discernment.

[@Gazdatronik]

I fell off the mathbus in prealgebra. When I was 36, I decided to get back on it, just to kick its ass. I started diffcalc 9 months later. It was, at that point, easier than geometrical proofs

[@aaronearnedanironurnn]

I realize why i was bad at math, but not how to fix it. I had no understanding of why things were done and used. So i was caught up in trying to memorize steps. But that doesnt always give you the right answer. And if the question changes, the steps arent the same. So then I'd really be lost.

[@SkullPrince8]

Calc is not as hard as he's making it sound and its also not too different from algebra. Differentiation at it's root is algebra.

[@Trantor.Citizen]

Calculus is amazing. I love it, but I understand that feeling.

[@andrejackson116]

That's what's up 💯

[@cleaningcrew6657]

Wow!🎉

[@colinjava8447]

Its a bigger jump from calculus to vector calculus. Like the integral of F.n ds, its meaningless till you actually break it down into a sum of lots of small bits and then take the limit, for me anyway.

[@kentjenkins734]

I think I had the same experience. Calc 1 wasn't that tough, but I had a heck of a time with Calc 2. I had to accept using processes I didn't really understand for a while before I gained clarity. Today I am relearning math, and I hope to get back to a Calc 2 level in a couple of months.

[@RunstarHomer]

But that's literally what all integrals are. Topics in vector calculus are largely analogous (in some cases, practically identical) to single-variable calculus. Whereas learning calculus for the first time, there is a pretty steep learning curve getting used to limits and derivatives etc.

[@KeeratrajSingh]

I also love me some calculus

[@ferntjsf]

That happened to me too.

[@kieth1284]

Sheldon said it was so cute that he kept trying 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@dmp04]

I enjoyed calculus because it was different from everything that I had seen before.

[@SojuNinja]

"Sh*t..." That was real.

[@cleveland2022]

Facts. Calculus in HS was tough.

[@benshapiro8506]

the "sh*t" by Theo Von at the end was priceless. Michael Spivak loves u both.

[@JoAnnThomas-j6w]

I took Calculus for Majors in college…..never had it in HS. Failed….. Then I tried again with beginner Calculus…..did fine….passed….and liked it 😊

[@haroonkhan-nr5qi]

And i would get a straight 4 gpa in programming yet failed 3 times in calculus 😢

[@alfredpatrick1722]

I’ve watched random calculus videos and now I use it to cheat algebra

[@RichardHarrison-bs2fy]

I went to Lehman. The first calc teacher I had also tought at The Bronx HS of Science. He started his first class by wadding up a piece of paper, tossing it in a high arch across the room. Then he said, "that's a parabula.

[@Sniffingfood]

I just googled these 3 types of maths. I have done them all by age 16 in class 10th ICSE. Indian education Supreme.

[@Morzone15]

This is why pre-calc classes are a thing now

[@dkelban]

Great learning on your part. Even God couldn't get me to enjoy calculus.

[@Nurmukhammed219]

It reminded me a scene from TBBT: "Whyyy? Whyyyy? Oh that's why"🤣

[@jckdnls9292]

Not even an equal sign... And you show us a bunch of equal signs

[@reginalddunn2088]

I felt the same way with my Spanish I text book in high school. I married a lady from Spain after writing letters for 4 years to her in Spanish.

[@beaubritton2125]

I had math and science down. I did not need calculus, but I had done so well in the other sicence and math courses, that I decided to enroll in calculus. It was like a foreign language. I looked at the book, and I was mystified. I went to the first class and I knew right away I was in over my head. It was a 3 times a week class, and by the end of the first week I dropped it. I had no idea what the was happening on the huge board at front of the lecture hall. To be honest I have not had to use any of the math courses in real life. I ended up in PA school and the life sciences were used, but trig or algebra were not.

[@ricddewbe54]

Stop it!!! CALCULUS DOES HAVE EQUAL signs. It's even in the example he was showing. Smh 😂

[@DoodleStein]

Whenever you think you can't learn something because you don't understand it currently, try this. Try reading a paragraph in Japanese (if you know Japanese, think of a language you don't know). You can't read it, can you? Does that mean you're incapable of learning Japanese, or does that mean you just haven't learned anything about the Japanese language yet? Now apply that logic to calculus, programming, etc. It's perfectly normal to know nothing about a subject that you've learned nothing about.

[@andremariano6263]

Never got into that realization part... I managed to pass from Calculus 1 to 2, but only because i memorized those lines... Next semester i gave up Civil Engeneering and one Year later enter a Geography School

[@Robyrob7771]

A lot has to do with the teacher. In high school I could not get algebra. Tech school I was getting it two weeks in. Crappy teacher vs. a teacher that cares that his students understand the subject matter! It also helps if the student wants to learn the subject.

[@ABunchofEverything-lb8vh]

Am I the only one who noticed that when he says “Algebra”, it shows a picture of a bunch of geometry, calculus, AND algebra? No hate, love your videos!

[@AmritSookdeo]

Cool tie

[@helloidharbl6753]

I had that moment with Calculus too. I was drowning until it 'clicked'. I remember looking down at a page as I was chewing up my raisen bran and realizing that the curve represents the formulas and vice versa. So I got a C instead of an F on my next test. 😅 You still have to practice.

[@ItachiUchiha-ex1cp]

He is very right first time when i saw calclus in my book i said wtf is this shit but when i started to do it i just couldn't leave i mean i just fell in love with calclus

[@Novaximus]

I think that's called Learning Neil. I went through the same thing when I saw the alphabet for the first time.

[@Tpecroe]

I have something in common with Neil. He made my day. 😂😂

[@PodcastClips910]

I had the same experience when I started learning abstract algebra after real analysis about 1.5 years ago. I thought groups and rings are way to abstract and unlike analysis I can never graph. And I still don't understand it😂

[@dr.manifest4543]

the crazier thing is the jump from calc 2 to 3 was way harder than 1-2

[@JuliusCeaser_]

Man I've forgotten all the calculus I've learned in high school . Been 12 years

[@slimjim1860]

Reminds me of seeing cursive as a little kid

[@ThomasDeLello]

Did you go onto Differential Equations...? That's really powerful stuff. If Calculus blew your mind, DE will be a brain quazar..

[@dgrblue4162]

He does vector calculus just for fun.

[@jefferyhall1646]

Once I learned that calculus is just geometry, everything became much simpler.

[@haypayne8937]

I was 'loving me some Business Calc', until we were getting into Regression Analysis to plot stock markets and other complicated patterns, --- then I was not loving Life itself.

[@photografr7]

I thought calculus was easy, so I took 5 classes in it in college.

[@tonyanderson-ln9gl]

I've learned calculus three times in my life. High school. Navy nuke school. A correspondence course. Passed the tests and everything. I still don't know what it's for.

[@murray1246]

Is the jump from algebra to calculus gravity?

[@bobbert1945]

I didn't do well in math, until I took calculus. I think it was the teacher.

[@rickyzuron]

That's a good school.