What is Math About?: Masao Morita at TEDxKyoto 2012

Kyoto Mathematician Morita Masao unlocks the hidden mysteries and real-world applications of numbers.
Masao Morita
Independent scholar
The word "mathematics" may delight some people and terrify others. Masao Morita, while still enrolled with the Tokyo University Mathematics Department in 2010, began his explorations as an independent researcher by founding the Kai An Mathematics Dojo in Fukuoka. In the years since, Masao has been continuing his independent research outside the university system, conducting practical workshops that explore the concept of "thinking under constraints that go beyond our thoughts". His main research interests include Category Theory and the Theory of Computation. Masao seeks to fuse the theoretic and practical aspects of mathematics, and to share the insights they offer with the world. To this end, Masao regularly conducts unique "mathematics concerts" around the country, both conducting and performing in a demonstration of Mathematics that will leave you breathless.
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森田 真生
独立研究者
「数学の演奏会」をご存知ですか？そのステージで拍手に包まれる演奏家＝Playerこそが森田真生さんです。2010年、東京大学理学部数学科在学中に、福岡県糸島市に数学道場「懐庵」を立ち上げたのが、独立研究者としての第一歩。以来、「思考を超えた制約の中に思考を投げ出す」ことをテーマに、さまざまな実験的ワークショップを開催しながら、大学制度の外側で独自の研究活動を展開してきました。主な関心は「圏論」「計算論」。現在は京都に拠点を構え、自然と「ともに-考える（com-putare）」という、言葉本来の意味での計算（computation）ということを理論的、実践的に追求しています。同時に、数学の世界の数々「名作」を「演奏する」ことをコンセプトに、「数学の演奏会」を全国各地で開催しています。
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[@chrischappa962]

Mathematics is simultaneously the art of problem-solving and the philosophy of problem-solving.

[@AlessandroBottoni]

Math is essentially a *technology* (a set of *tools*, like numbers, and *techniques*, like theorems) that we use to *represent* (or *simulate*) Reality. We use those simulations to *analyze* phenomena and *predict* results. Maths is so complex, it forces us to think over our... *thinking* (that is: cognition). That is the reason why it is so fascinating.

[@Stelios.Posantzis]

Very inspired! I was actually looking for an explanation of what mathematics are and happened upon this - I don’t think I can find a better one!

[@taylorlomba]

Enjoyed this. Very relatable to artistic practices.. Hope you are still sharing your passion and perspective 💭

[@ramadosssambasivam7590]

Fabulous ......Encountering with your own inner Universe.....Well said

[@satnamo]

Mathematic is that which I get to know by thinking about the simplest things like prime numbers and waves.

[@mk.2777]

これ当時から何回も見に来てます。また来た。

[@xario2007]

Okay, this is very simple: You take a few rules (axioms) you like and go wild. You create a whole universe of things these rules imply. You create (define) some objects. Math is the connections and relations between your objects. It's like Magic the Gathering, except you don't have to buy cards.

[@zoechau8666]

Thank you for uploading this. When you really get into mathematics you will know he is right:)

[@ayatakizawa403]

Wonderful presentation. We can feel the beauty-connection of the inner/outer world

[@tarabying6884]

Simply wow! I love mathematics however completely differ concept than I do love.

[@ghadabensaid6913]

I just love him :'( and I love maths , maths is more than just endless numbers it's a philosophy that needs endless view

[@trebhum_]

:'( he is beautiful

[@shantanukaushikmathoholic]

Loved it, talking about Joocho, I had the same Experience as he said.

[@parishmitadeka5392]

I've never thought about math in this way. I have an article to write on math( my major subject) and after looking at some books and articles written by several mathematician, I've come to the conclusion that we should be taught about philosophy of math along with the core subject !

[@youarenotme01]

i am untrained Mathemticiam and i came to exact same conclusion on my own. i can effectively describe how i use my mind in this way.

[@raminomelu]

There's a reason why mathematicians don't go into stand up comedy.

[@chrischappa962]

Your generalization based on this sample size of one illustrates that you’re clearly no statistician, much less mathematician

[@raminomelu]

What?!​@@chrischappa962

[@ciceramayers2541]

Love it! ❤️

[@LuizHenrique-hp1du]

Excelent talk. I love the spiritual perspective. Because is that i ve percepted the math. If you can conect the sorrounding things, you have to find the math behind the thought process nad their levels of complexity.

[@elidel3299]

MATH is the gateway to another dimension

[@aleshihan]

I love this video.

[@kimsahl8555]

Math is about the quantities of the Nature (Nature = everything).

[@blufuz]

I think a math concert is a wonderful idea.

[@thedroid3101]

that is brilliant, the consciousnesses.

[@KEN-zq9fq]

やっぱり僕も自分の描くファンタジーを信じ続ける事にしました。何より、『数学なんて辛くて難しくてつまらない』と言う自身ではなく数学を受け入れている新しいじしんを掴み取れそうで嬉しいです。学生の頃に言葉にできないけれど確かに求めていた授業ってこう言う事だった気がします。ありがとう！

[@almondmilk1062]

After all, I decided to keep believing in the fantasy I drew. Above all, I'm glad that I can get a new idea of ​​accepting mathematics instead of saying "math is painful, difficult and boring". When I was a student, I couldn't put it into words, but I think the class I was looking for was something like this. Thank you! is what this person said in english if you didnt understand

[@threnody4955]

@@almondmilk1062 Thank you

[@potatopotatoeOG]

He’s such a great speaker ngl

[@jurggjon]

love it!

[@sotflicka]

I couldn't agree more

[@victorcomposes]

My journey to learning mathematics.

[@DeborahJB]

I think he means having the "sense" of numbers before you start thinking of "Is this right, or is that right?"

[@thedroid3101]

I was drawn here from making 808, then sine waves vectors, 3d, trig, theory, then here

[@vaibhav9639]

great..........

[@Mollywood54]

Very good. Thankyou.

[@tictoc5443]

thanks

[@E1000fightness]

Maths: The Fifth Dimension

[@anaygonzalez4963]

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[@user-ci9te3yt6t]

Can give you us your email address or any kind of contact, Please?.

[@joeldoxtator9804]

I thought he said math was about JoJo. You thought this was a manga, but it was I all along! Mathematics!

[@Wadlyyardshark]

Wonder what he said at 7:45 to 7:47?

[@LouisKenzo]

"The very act of looking inside your mind and encountering with your inner universe." Introspection?

[@pranjalmishra121]

No Sir , Encountering is one step ahead of introspection because if you introspect you only see yourself like your past work , habits and believes but Encountering is linked with Questioning and finding path ways to get new routes.

[@brigettebashombana9422]

L like your because am good at math thank you for telling new things

[@andonypoma8095]

No he is saying you cant prove 1 be ause thats the same as asking how where when did the universe start? Correct me if im wrong.

[@thedroid3101]

this is like all of life right here

[@martm216]

For a young guy he speaks well.

[@1trafalger1]

Some of these comments suggest the problem faced in evolving a more coherent basis for math. Masao Morita has truncated his ideas, and they may sound trivial. But they're based in sound neuroscience. Humans (and other animals) come prepared with heuristic tools to explore reality. Infants have more neurons than adults, and those early years lay down a vast number of intraneural paths. Yet as I write this I realize how foolish I am, given the reactions already here.

[@takc1729]

数学が情緒の中で自分自身と出会うものなんて考えたことなかった 数学と情緒って対極に近いものとすら思ってた 数学から自分自身と出会う、情緒を感じる感じ方を教えてもらいたいな 数学からどんな自分に出会えるのかアクセスしてみたい

[@salvor1]

I think TED talks are the best things ever. There are a very few on math -and they are all bad -especially this one. There is no word that is a direct translation -yet he can't even describe it?? His message -''use the force Luke''. yea sure.

[@paulwatson348]

I wander if you could say the more specific a fact is the more concrete it is?

[@marcoj8215]

Wonder*

[@user-dy7pd6xx1j]

ビートたけしも 数学は哲学だと言っていた！ とりあえず私も、 １＋１から考えてみようと思います。

[@TheBSideDJ]

I find it hard to believe that the number one does not exist, for me it is the representation of a single object, and the number one does come from the real life and is not only existant in our brain. All the rest in math (not maths) is the consequence of this.

[@yongamer]

3:40 Math conserts? Can someone explain what he means by this?

[@EUROFIGHTER14567]

Vegard Fjeldberg he said concerts

[@jesro.jessica.s.rojasbrigb1835]

yes musicis good matimatician what caind of bie in your tempo 4t 4t and 3.4t or 2.4t this3 kai.d of tempo in music and nomber

[@derbicalderon2101]

Does anyone know how to spell the name of Japanese mathematician he mentioned at 5:10 ?

[@Guthix744]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Oka Here you go :)

[@oferozery]

thank you!

[@mohammedouallal2]

Allow me to correct you brother! we can not "Create" concept, we discover concepts, it is already there, in nature...

[@user-dd7su1kw5g]

at first, sorry for my poor English, I think, it may be difficult to understand what he wanna say for other than Japanese because what he say is based on or associated with Japanese traditional idea, culture, religions FEX "Zen" , and "experience of Kiyoshi Oka" in Japan the most. Japan is different from western country in every way. Actually,I read his book , andI think his main idea is that We can't make real real real．．! things , because it has already exsited anywhere and It's changing constantly ... you know as this, It's so hard to express his idea lol....or I can't understand his completely too. haha But I think this idea helps a anything "〜gy" or olso life itself He is suggesting it help progless of mathematics, as there was the case of Kiyoshi Oka. He has not presented nothing about great discovers about mathematics yet, but I believe he will contribute to developments of mathematics in some way in the future. and I'm the one inspired of his book

[@FrankFloresRGVZGM]

Fuzzy logic is the sexiest, in my opinion.

[@Oshanii]

1 is what, either an empty set or a set containing the empty set. I forgot, haha. and, set is an axiom so voila, can't prove, need to believe.

[@larizasandoval2037]

I liked the talk and him hahaha.

[@alvapazz]

He has a dark sense of humor

[@ArnavBarbaad]

Heartly agreed point by point of what you said. Really a bad talk. And even if he was able to comprehend what he was speaking, surely the audience couldnt because till you dont even understand the very fabric of the subject (thats logic) you cant comprehend Jocho, and innver universe and all that way abstract stuff. Well but I do partially agree with him because all of Algebra and Arithmetic (Not all of mathematics) can be reduced to the single element "1"

[@user-em1wk2mq6w]

I want to be a mathematical economist .

[@4_times_college_dropout_tr24]

MATHS

[@DeborahJB]

One is not meaningless, because there are things and if you have 1 thing, you have the concept of 1.

[@framm703]

Creo que no estás entendiendo la idea de "meaning" y sentir algo no es suficiente como para justifica un "concept" lógicamente hablando. :P

[@solinovo3219]

3:23 Ouch, that hurt man

[@jinqiangzhang]

He could have replaced anything with maths in the latter jocho part. Say, take a physics problem, try to do it by yourself... what’s the point.?

[@yuichituba]

Wow, the intro is so awkward...

[@mailguru17]

ALGEBRA ISN'T HARD-MATHS TAUGHT RIGHT WAY IS VERY INTERESTING N 1 CAN SCORE HIGHEST IN CALCULUS N TRIGONOMETRY WITHOUT PAPER IN ABOUT 5SECS-BE THOROUGH IN BASICS-RIGHT TEACHER WILL PUSH HARD-SHOULD NOT HAVE PHOBIA OF TEACHER AS I DID

[@user-yp7sm7wg8n]

フランス語でいうならespritかなあ、この辺は本当に難しい。

[@atharvkolekar6421]

Vedantas self enquiry i think with math

[@jfbaker5351]

Huh I thought he would at least explain what the fudge a math concert is... That way I might have thought: "Cool..." but I don't think it ever happened.

[@user-gy9ch3qu9k]

Like for JoJo

[@atharvkolekar6421]

Vedic mathematics

[@jamesof7seven]

I'm going to tell everyone who isn't good at math, "just encounter your inner self". smh

[@Ssookawai]

I'm afraid he's right.. math became "hard" and "obscure" the day I lost my inner self.

[@mmmghool]

@@Ssookawai I agree

[@thedroid3101]

that is deeeeeep

[@shamyradavis7217]

This is good math talk and when I was little girl I hated math and I still do hate math my daughter hate math to I love her we are the same. ??????????

[@kekedarius]

single black mother spotted

[@GoodasGuilty]

hmm ..

[@prajnaprajna1923]

Agree that Andrew Wiles is a very great mathematician but Wiles ‘s working is just useful for development modern mathematics. If he uses it for a three-letter equation like: x^n+y^n=/ z^n. It should become dull.when using wastefully 400 pages meat wrapping paper about a equation that was solved in only seven lines x,y,z,n are integers. n>2.Suppose: x^n+y^n=z^n. Define n=na.1/a Definitely find there exists at least an integer a ,such that z¹/a is an irrational number. Because x^n+y^n=z^n. So :x¹/a+y¹/a=z¹/a+d. So: (x¹/a+y¹/a)^na=(z¹/a+d)^na. x^n+nax^(na - 1)/a.y¹/a+….+nax¹/a.y^(na - 1)/a+y^n=z^n+naz^(na - 1)/a.d+….+naz¹/a.d^(na - 1)+d^na. naz^(na - 1)/a.d=nax^(na - 1)/a.y¹/a+….+nax¹/a.y^(na - 1)/a - [….+naz¹/a.d^(na - 1)+d^na]. na.z^n=[z¹/a / (x¹/a+y¹/a - z¹/a)]..{nax^(na - 1)/a.y¹/a+….+nax¹/a.y^(na - 1)/a - [….+naz¹/a.d^(na - 1)+d^na]} because choose z¹/a is an irrational number.=>[z¹/a / (x¹/a+y¹/a - z¹/a)] is also an irrational number=>polynomial later is also an irrational number. but [na. z^n ] is an integer. Unreasonable ! So: x^n+y^n=/z^n. Đồng ý rằng Andrew Wiles là một nhà toán học rất vĩ đại nhưng công việc của Wiles chỉ hữu ích cho việc phát triển toán học hiện đại. Nếu ông sử dụng nó cho một phương trình ba chữ như: x ^ n + y ^ n = / z ^ n. Nó sẽ trở nên ngu si đần độn. Khi sử dụng lãng phí 400 trang giấy gói về một phương trình đã được giải quyết trong chỉ có bảy dòng X, y, z, n là số nguyên. N> 2.Suppose: x ^ n + y ^ n = z ^ n. Xác định n = na.1 / a Chắc chắn tìm thấy tồn tại ít nhất một số nguyên a, sao cho z¹ / a là một số không hợp lý. Bởi vì x ^ n + y ^ n = z ^ n. Vì vậy: x¹ / a + y¹ / a = z¹ / a + d. Vì vậy: (x¹ / a + y¹ / a) ^ na = (z¹ / a + d) ^ na. x^n+nax^(na - 1)/a.y¹/a+….+nax¹/a.y^(na - 1)/a+y^n=z^n+naz^(na - 1)/a.d+….+naz¹/a.d^(na - 1)+d^na. naz^(na - 1)/a.d=nax^(na - 1)/a.y¹/a+….+nax¹/a.y^(na - 1)/a - [….+naz¹/a.d^(na - 1)+d^na]. na.z^n=[z¹/a / (x¹/a+y¹/a - z¹/a)]..{nax^(na - 1)/a.y¹/a+….+nax¹/a.y^(na - 1)/a - [….+naz¹/a.d^(na - 1)+d^na]} Bởi vì chọn z¹ / a là một số bất hợp lý. => [Z¹ / a / (x¹ / a + y¹ / a - z¹ / a)] cũng là một số không hợp lý => đa thức sau đó cũng là một số không hợp lý. Nhưng [na. Z ^ n] là một số nguyên. Không hợp lý! Vì vậy x^n+y^n=/z^n.

[@thedroid3101]

depends how coffee stoned you are.

[@eair9829]

大学までは数学ってただの計算にすぎないからな だから普通の人たちには数学＝計算だと思われてしまう

[@duck6872]

I have a completely moronic friend, I shoul;d show him this video.

[@cruelangel7737]

A Priori...

[@thedroid3101]

he said knowing what you already know, this shit goes to zero point theory

[@spyny6530]

I hate when he laughs by him self and says boring joke. Don't act. You can be your self.

[@TheNsn666]

1 is GOD.

[@tryh4rd666]

moned

[@Jasmine12348]

Delevired nothing... Baha

[@shrutig726]

my japanese shahrukh Khan😍

[@nyuh]

wgoa

[@amorfati9861]

" But no one plays math " All the science and engineering community : " Are we a joke to you ? "

[@gib803]

He is not good... though, as we all know, his "rolemodel" is right.

[@Blueaspen391]

this is the worst TED talk I have ever watched. Basically the main message is "math is not all about numbers and calculations". Then he claims that in math there are composers but there aren't players and he is going to be a player. I thought he was going to show something beautiful and creative. The big surprise was just the word "jocho". The audience is still confused because he said math is not all about numbers, but he hasn't said what is math about yet. Then, guess what, math is "the very act of looking inside your mind and encountering with your ... "jocho"!!! GREAT NEWS!!! GOOD JOB!!!

[@saurabhskhanna1982]

If his idea is to organize maths concert to increase general interest towards mathematics he is really doing a very bad job. It is due to these boring lectures of highest orders that students are afraid of mathematics...

[@tictoc5443]

if i understand the purpose,then i can apply attention to the subject

[@TheBSideDJ]

maths does not exist... it's math without s...

[@jacksummer4041]

26 ➕ subs and only 100k views 😂 people surely hate math

[@k.ganesanganesan6825]

Abolish lecture method.

[@zushich]

英語うめー

[@user-ip3ze9iy7g]

His laughing is... I mean he should train before speak to audience.

[@Ssookawai]

It's not important how he laughs as long as he's spontaenous and happy.. I hate fake smiles.

[@user-ip3ze9iy7g]

Anyway. He sounds strange ))

[@toohuudoo]

日本人は聴衆に媚びる傾向が外国人よりかなり強い。歪んだ作り笑顔を浮かべる。 そのくせというかそのせいなのか、例えばおかしなことを喋って自分で笑ってしまう。 聴衆はそれでしらける。外国人はたいていはとても真摯に喋る。そしておかしなこと を言っても真面目な顔をしている。それで聴衆は余計に笑う。

[@devolutioninc]

Lecture about Math by an Asian dude. If that doesn't contribute to the stereotype. LoL....good lecture though. Math is everything.

[@djnAbNo2]

This talk was terrible. Sorry but he just wasted 9 minutes of my life

[@chumsky8754]

Some people enjoyed his talk. So the correct statement would be "I just wasted 9 minutes of my life."

[@djnAbNo2]

Is it now

[@klam2064]

I wonder if you have notifications on so I can add another 2 seconds

[@juliogarcia1152]

Absolutely useless approach.

[@ivanbuljanvanboelken4676]

Stop talking nonsense,stop enforcing math, it is pathetic.

[@marcoj8215]

He's got a weird laugh and we can hear him open his mouth which sounds nasty. Edit: Also pretty cringy.