Making sense of the world through Maths

If you mime a silent Edvard Munch scream every time you see a mathematical problem, perhaps it is time to take a closer look at how much of our life is actually governed by numbers and equations. “Maths has the potential to connect us to universal truths that we can each access directly with our bodies and minds,” says Vijay Ravikumar, a mathematician with a penchant for puppetry and theatre arts. Ravikumar recently premiered the “Geometry of Vision” series of online learning modules, which examines how we make visual sense of the world around us through Maths. “Maths can be surprisingly intuitive at a visceral level, even if we’ve never thought about it consciously,” he says. Open source learning “My goal is to create a gateway to fundamental maths that is both accessible and exciting to interested learners from pretty much any background — whether they’re high-school or Ph.D. students, or adult learners looking for interesting activities after retirement,” says Ravikumar.