if you are looking for a bottle of whisky that you know it's somewhere in your bedroom, you know how the bottle looks like so you are expecting to see that pattern while you are looking for the bottle, but you are rather thinking about the whisky, not about the pattern itself. Mathematicians are happy studying the pattern itself, they don't need the whisky.
Prof Po-Shen Loh has the best of the cultural worlds of Singapore (hard work, intense practice and repetition, math-focussed, performance-oriented) and US (creativity, individuality, find-your-own-path, self-acceptance). The Singapore educators realised years ago that their students lacked creativity, but found it hard to teach or inspire it in formal education when the wider system didn't support that sort of thinking. US educators on the other hand would find it hard to inculcate the early compliance with practice and rehearsal. But mix the two, and wow, see what you get!
"A key characteristic of all the mathematicians I get to meet and work with . . . actually [is] the joy and the challenge of encountering a problem that you've not seen before." 3:34
Brilliant math educators at the highest level. Po-Shen Loh founded Expii, an education space for mathematics learning, and Eddie took a novel approach through RU-vid videos. Excellent!
Guess what,... a 58 year old Dutch guy (whom was not so good at math...) is enjoying an interview between two (humble!) great people, a Australien math teacher and American Singaporean Math professor. Only down side,... sudden video end, waiting for the next part! What a reach the internet has these days,....
Wow! Greatest Mathematicians of the time. Both of you understand mathematics very deeply and the best thing is both of you try to give you knowledge to everyone wanting to know. Salute!
Sir would you both discuss what mathematics lies at the heart of the existance of the Universe? What mathematics makes us all exists. That strikes me everytime, but still without answer.
@@lc1777 lol Maths is my life. As a reference i never scored below 97 in maths till now . The comment is from my all friends side. Because my majority friends just hate maths.
@@jolly_jjas that's true. I was lucky that i got an amazing teacher who made me fall in love with the subject and I never looked back. However not everyone is as lucky
If this guy can teach me math, then I’ll gladly contribute 1% of my income after I start and complete my college career and then my first paycheck to my last paycheck in my chosen career.
