Our Mathematical Universe with Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown)

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Is math discovered or invented? Neil deGrasse Tyson & Chuck Nice explore information theory, talking to aliens with prime numbers, Mandelbrot sets, and why math is often called the "language of the universe" with Grant Sanderson, the math educator behind YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown.

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0:00.0	Chuck, we finally got a math person as a guest on Star Comics.
0:03.8	And one that I actually like.
0:05.8	Sometimes it's very difficult to like math people,
0:11.0	because, you know, they know math.
0:14.0	Coming up on Star Talk we have an authentic math
0:21.0	math educator who's going to tell us what we're not thinking when we
0:26.4	should be thinking anytime we think about math on Star Talk.
0:32.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:35.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:40.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:44.0	This is Star Talk.
0:48.0	Neil degrass Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:52.0	Chuck, how you doing, man?
0:53.9	Oh, man, I'm feeling great, Neil.
0:56.0	Professional comedian and my co-host.
0:58.6	That's correct.
0:59.4	In that order. Sometimes, sometimes in that order. So Chuck I think this we're gonna parts of this is going to be a
1:08.4	cosmic queries yes but we have a lot to cover so it's not going to be a full up cosmic query.
1:15.2	There's going to be a slip in what we can because the subject is math.
1:21.4	What? The language of the universe? Learn math kid, it's the language of the
1:27.8	universe. You want to talk to the universe? You learn math. Learn math. And there's one of the funnest experts out there. Okay.
1:35.9	And his name is Grant Sanderson. Grant, welcome to Stark Talk.
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