In this slightly more than 1/4 of an hour presentation, Roger Antonsen does a masterful job of walking us all through how we as human’s confuse mathematics with a foreign language. In that mathematics is extremely hard to understand and we often give up trying to unlock something that seems circuitous (no mathematical pun intended — never mind, yes, mathematic pun intended). The key to Roger Antonsen’s TED talk is the approach of changing your perspective of mathematics which in turn changes your perspective on life and the world we live in.
By changing your perspective of mathematics, we gain a better understanding of the world around us. An example of this is music. Mathematics of rhythm, time, and octaves produce harmonic sound, or a cacophony of noise based upon one’s perspective. We can also take for example the use mathematics to create shapes in various forms by adding dots along a continuous stream that creates a line. Art also takes advantage of the use of mathematics through perspective as another example. Perspective is a way of the eye viewing an object in a painting or drawing that leaves the impression that something is further or near us.
Mathematics teaches us all to change our perspective on life. We do this by simply attempting to first understand. Once understood, perspectives are changed by viewing things from a unique way. We can then surmise a formulation to solve complex problems using the arts, sciences, and linguistics to articulate hypothesis and explore the one thing that is central to our being: immortality.
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