I quite like them, but must say I find the squeaky voices rather irritating (especially when the likes of Feynman have wonderful voices anyway), and they're a bit repetitive.
I'd probably prefer to watch the lectures that those quotes were extracted from!
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If I only can post about computer science here. Am I allowed to? D:
I feel like a geek for reading the whole article and enjoying it.
"Hey guys, I just bought this thing called a sight ward...so it's GG." - MasterA in League of Legends
Maths is wonderful. It's fun to be a mathematician!
So is the Q&A realistic?
/Interested, but admittedly not an expert or even a noob mathematician..
Well opinions are always subjective, but I'd tend to agree with much of what was said. He makes a good point about the perception of mathematics in society, and that we ought to change it. There are also some nice analogies that he makes.
I don't agree that it's necessarily the mathematician's responsibility to control how their maths is used. Many mathematicians do research because the topic interests them from a purely theoretical point of view (although they will probably state an application of the result in order to secure funding) - what's done with it isn't really up to them.
