I'm starting to think I may have completely underestimated the Herculean task of making math concepts accessible to the American public in way that's relevant to their daily lives. Like even if you discover you have a rare talent and *could* do something. Doesn't mean you should.
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It seems wildly difficult. vsauce has some really good videos, but even those mostly just expose people to the basic idea. I doubt that anybody really retains anything beyond the topline takeaway from, say, Banach-Tarski.
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If you want to get into things like encryption, then you stop working with numbers in the usual way and start dealing with modular arithmetic, of which clock math is one example. And in modular arithmetic what things sum to depends on how you're counting.
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Change things.
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It is indeed a Herculean task but with one big difference; a lot of people can work on it together. I’ve given some years of my life to this effort and I’m glad I did. Join us!
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I vaguely remember a very old article of yours about deriving voting results by using a kind of estimation procedure instead of just taking raw counts. Is that right?
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I followed you because I enjoyed the 2+2 thread. I have been doing some school level maths tutoring, and I love being able to be more playful, having more ways of getting bored young people feeling maths is all cool and wild and worth a push.
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