Mathematician Answers Math Questions From Twitter

Transcript What am I ever gonna need this? 'Cause the reputation of math is just being like plain right or wrong and also being really hard, it gives mathematicians a certain kind of authority, and you can definitely see that being abused. We've done this really good job of packaging math to teach it, and so that it looks like it's all done and clean and neat, but math research is like messy and creative and original and new, and you're trying to figure out how things work and how to put them together in new ways. It looks nothing like the math in school, which is sort of a much polished up after the fact finished product version of something that's actually like out there and messy and weird. And then you can sort of do math where that's not true anymore, where like, ab equals ba times a new thing called c. That's just not the math you learned in school.