Winnie the Math Whiz (with Danica McKellar) - Numberphile

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Danica McKellar is famous for playing Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years - but did you know she has proven a theorem and writes books about mathematics? Full length version at: • Winnie the Math Whiz (... --- More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
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@numberphile 3 месяца назад

Full length version of this interview at: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xMAiBBxQGZI.html

@HajiMuhammadIqbal-ux8yq 3 месяца назад

techno Gamerz

@LucenProject 3 месяца назад

Winnie for the win! So awesome!

@MuaddibIsMe 3 месяца назад

Finding out that she's a math nerd further reinforces the childhood crush

@AtomicAndi 3 месяца назад

Does it, though?

@traywor 3 месяца назад

@@AtomicAndi for nerds very probably

@martinkuliza Месяц назад

LOL, Hotness multiplied by avogadro's number

@brailsmt 3 месяца назад

Not only was Winnie my childhood crush, her books kept my girls interested in math through middle and high school. Thank you, Winnie.

@williamg8269 Месяц назад

Hi Murr

@TonyHammitt 3 месяца назад

"Dig over here" is such an accessible way to describe how we do research in school. The professor doesn't really know what the answer is, but you go digging into it together

@blackshard641 3 месяца назад

"And if you're of a certain age, she was probably a bit of a childhood crush." Dude, you are not kidding.

@md-sl1io 3 месяца назад

hes fanboying so hard

@orang1921 3 месяца назад

understandably so

@numberphile 3 месяца назад

I can't deny it!

@guptayush179 3 месяца назад

@@numberphile how about you change your channel name to Danicaphile??

@manningbartlett522 3 месяца назад

And I am dying of envy at the fact he got the opportunity to fanboy so hard.

@SimonCoates 3 месяца назад

he's so hard fanboying 😂

@plznerf3326 3 месяца назад

My inner greek just had a stroke reading that thumbnail

@megg.3933 3 месяца назад

Thank you

@whophd 3 месяца назад

(British people just choked a laugh)

@unvergebeneid 3 месяца назад

Phe Wondsr Psears?

@flickingbollocks5542 3 месяца назад

My inner Hittite was the same.

@celiane2 3 месяца назад

"P7e weunawshr psears".

@dragonsouleater1119 3 месяца назад

ok. the profound dichotomy of sharing herself as a actress, and having super niche math problems on the mind, is really cool. something i never would have thought about. also, i can't believe WINNIE IS ON NUMBERPHILE! really cool!

@wobblysauce 3 месяца назад

Once math gets its hooks in...

@pkz420 3 месяца назад

@@wobblysauce You're right, "Math", is only one letter away from "Meth". It's habit forming.

@zanili 3 месяца назад

Her books are one of the reasons I got interested in math!

@mehill00 3 месяца назад

This was adorable, seeing Brady be such a fan of Danica. I had no idea about Danica’s math accomplishments. So fun.

@bornach 3 месяца назад

Loved the video she did for NOVA's Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers in which she tells the story of when people used to ask her "Are you the girl from The Wonder Years?" instead started asking her "Are you the girl who scored the 22 in the Multi-variable calculus test?" which was the top score -- below her were two 15's and everyone else was 9 or below!

@ibrahimbinkasim7419 3 месяца назад

The episode where Kevin's teacher died is just heartbreaking

@numberphile 3 месяца назад

A classic.

@lazprayogha 3 месяца назад

Am i the only one who only sees Denica as "Trudy from HIMYM?" She's awesome! Need to read her paper.

@gfixler 3 месяца назад

I'm one of the kids from the 80s who had a crush. I have her books in hardcover on my math books shelves, after finding them many years ago in a used book shop in LA. My friend jokingly printed out her paper and put it in my Christmas stocking about 15 years ago, and I still have it around here somewhere. I've known the full title for that long, just in case I ever run into her, so I could go, "Aren't you that girl from... Percolation and Gibbs States..." But I guess now everyone knows 😆

@davidioanhedges 3 месяца назад

She has an Erdős number of 4, and a Bacon number of 2 .... both extremely low They are the same as Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan's numbers ...

@zunaidparker 3 месяца назад

Came looking for this! Thanks!

@DuringDark 3 месяца назад

sabbath number?

@oasntet 3 месяца назад

@@DuringDark EBS of 10!

@davidioanhedges 3 месяца назад

@@DuringDark Danica's EBS is : E : 4 B : 2 S : 4 I found that Mayim Bailak has one of the lower EBS numbers Erdös : 5 Bacon : 2 Sabbath : 3

@rtpoe 3 месяца назад

I don't really count scientists appearing as themselves in documentaries as having a "Bacon Number" - you have to take a role in a proper movie.

@oasntet 3 месяца назад

It's worth noting that McKellar has a very respectable Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number of just 10, beating quite a few canonical examples like Natalie Portman.

@skellyslife9 Месяц назад

dafuq does that mean?

@YouPlague Месяц назад

@@skellyslife9 Just wiki Erdos number, you'll get it.

@toferj7441 3 месяца назад

I'm 49 and had the BIGGEST crush on the Winnie Cooper character.

@harryman01 3 месяца назад

Mine too

@seansoccer100 3 месяца назад

No, I did!

@olorcain 2 месяца назад

We all did

@skellyslife9 Месяц назад

so proud of you!!

@glittercatstudios 3 месяца назад

I can relate so much to everything she says. As a mathematicoan and astrophysicist, I know all too well just how lonely and isolating it is. It was great to have those feelings validated by another.

@lucasdasilva23 3 месяца назад

What a fascinating person she is

@pkz420 3 месяца назад

All these years later... and she's still adorable.

@Cossieuk 3 месяца назад

I know her as Trudy from HIMYM in the pineapple episode

@ivansanchez143 3 месяца назад

Yeah, the Pineapple incident S1 E10 and The third wheel S3 E3

@Narchi1 3 месяца назад

Same

@nestoreleuteriopaivabendo5415 3 месяца назад

I scrolled way down too much to find this.

@IndoorAdventurer1996 2 месяца назад

DAMN IT TRUDY! WHAT ABOUT THE PINEAPPLE! - Marshall Eriksen

@viyye 3 месяца назад

my favourite subjects come together, magnets and Winnie Cooper WOW

@mancerayder2721 3 месяца назад

I am also of a certain age… and so excited to have just bought her pre-school board books for my 6 month old granddaughter! I had no idea she was a mathematics author.

@CalvinLXVII 2 месяца назад

Cierto! El episodio del profesor me dejó marcado!! Es de los mejores que vi de "The Wonder Years". Adoraba esa serie de adolescente! Saludos!

@GoranNewsum 3 месяца назад

Danica explaining what proving a theorem is like is exactly right, and is the same reason I love maths!

@kovacs88 3 месяца назад

Yes, I definitely had a crush on Winnie Cooper. She still looks amazing!

@ValiantPixel 3 месяца назад

I know her from the Impractical Jokers episode where she watched Murr’s oiled-up bodybuilder performance. I am not old enough to be familiar with The Wonder Years but she really is gorgeous and evidently intelligent too!

@TerribleShmeltingAccident 3 месяца назад

such a welcome change of pace by my fav math youtube channel! tyvm

@douglasstrother6584 2 месяца назад

I grew up in "The Wonder Years" IRL. The TV Series was fun.

@stevefrandsen7897 3 месяца назад

I didn't watch Wonder Years but have enjoyed her on Hallmark movies and read at least one of her books. She seems brilliant and a crusader for not hiding your smarts. Good for you Danica! Glad to see her on Numberphile.

@coulie27 3 месяца назад

Sometimes you create a channel because you like maths... then end up getting to meet your heros, and childhood crushes 😂💞😅

@chillsahoy2640 3 месяца назад

"I just knew that this [working in maths] was what I needed to do then." This is such an important attitude to have! Don't worry so much about defining yourself based on what your whole life will be. It helps to focus on what you need at this moment in time. It's OK to find that at different stages of your life, you have different focuses or aims and goals. And it's also OK if you focus on just one thing for your whole life! The important thing is regularly self-assessing to make sure that the direction you're taking is the right one for you right now.

@davidsteinhour5562 3 месяца назад

This is the first I've heard of her, and wow, I can see what you mean about her being a crush! And ferromagnetic particles are a big deal in shock absorber tuning for high-performance vehicles these days, so that's very cool!

@MichaelPiz 3 месяца назад

I didn't much watch _The Wonder Years_ but based on the things I've learned about her over time it's obvious that she has built a fantastic life for herself and, I'm sure, for those close to her. Good for her!

@tomkerruish2982 3 месяца назад

I'm of a slightly older age. No kidding, at Caltech (specifically Dabney Hovse), we had the Olivia d'Abo fan club. (She played the older sister.) She actually paid us a visit!

@whophd 3 месяца назад

3:50 "felt so alive", this is true, it's hard to convince others, but I try

@JasonMoir 3 месяца назад

If you grew up during that time, how could you not have a crush on her?

@mariodidier001 3 месяца назад

As a kid in the 90s in Mexico, I was able to watch The Wonder Years and several other TV shows from the US. And yes, huge childhood crush.

@unvergebeneid 3 месяца назад

Evidently, I'm of a certain age.

@markedis5902 3 месяца назад

Evidently so am I. I take it that you watched Blossom too?

@Sam_on_YouTube 3 месяца назад

@@markedis5902Of course. And Punky Brewster?

@miamisasquatch 3 месяца назад

IYKYK

@Sairin13 3 месяца назад

Math must do wonders for you, because she looks amazing

@frida507 3 месяца назад

Yes, she kind of looks the same, without looking like a child.

@mienzillaz 3 месяца назад

Happy you can have these kind of moments thanks to your work on YT.

@BZAKether 3 месяца назад

I still remember, years ago, discovering that she was an accomplished mathematician and trying to read their paper and... Well, I didn't understand one single word. I wish her books were in more languages, a lot more people would be interested in maths.

@sly1024 3 месяца назад

I need someone like her in my life. I wanna be able to share my thoughts, my work with somebody who understands.

@Broken_robot1986 3 месяца назад

Danica! I can't believe this.

@vanessaguevara3303 3 месяца назад

You upload 44 minutes ago and I freaked out because a actor from the wonder years is HERE

@viyye 3 месяца назад

I love her still!

@EPMTUNES 3 месяца назад

Very interesting interview! I feel many young celebrities feel the imposter syndrome that McKellar describes here and I am glad that she was able to pursue an alternate achievement and excel at it.

@verdatum 3 месяца назад

maaaaaasssive childhood crush. I bet she gets sick to death of hearing about that.

@numberphile 3 месяца назад

No doubt - but she is very gracious about it!

@verdatum 3 месяца назад

@@numberphile That makes me happy :)

@acpjr 3 месяца назад

OMFG it's Winnie Cooper!

@jamiesray 3 месяца назад

I have seen every episode of The West Wing and never realized that was her.

@snowkracker 3 месяца назад

I loved the wonder years and Winnie as a kid too.

@diegofernandez4789 3 месяца назад

Great intro to the podcast. I enjoyed it.

@vishvasumuditha4604 3 месяца назад

I knew her from HIMYM but never knew her educational background My image about her just sky rocketed now ❤

@DragonOfThePineForest 3 месяца назад

5:00 yup. Though I will say it's worse to actually have someone, and then loose them.

@ted7x 3 месяца назад

wow thank you for the throwbacks, this was awesome! my kids could use some help with math, might check out those books

@ThAlEdison 3 месяца назад

Yeah she has both a Bacon number and an Erdős number

@johnmalone5693 3 месяца назад

I never saw that seires as I'm from the wrong age group, What a great story, well done Danica !

@chessthecat 3 месяца назад

I didn't know that a Bachelor's degree student had to prove a theorem. Seems like a lot. Isn't that usually grad level?

@numberphile 3 месяца назад

I think she and her colleague were overachieving!

@GeorgePlaten 3 месяца назад

Danica's cool (bought her books for my daughter), but my first question to her would be if she ever met the narrator of The Wonder Years. Who went on to be one half of The Wet Bandits in Home Alone, and then created the sveltest Javascript framework.

@philp4684 3 месяца назад

You're joking, right? Daniel Stern the JS developer is a different person from Daniel Stern the actor.

@GeorgePlaten 3 месяца назад

@@philp4684 yeah, Rich Harris gets teased about looking like DS, the actor

@hamc9477 3 месяца назад

I have no idea what the paper was about, but at 7:18 or so when the paper flashes up my eye caught the sentence "percolation of blues implies the existence of multiple Gibbs states." Amen, brother, play them blues licks and let 'em percolate. Get in one of them Gibbs states and bang out a 12-bar on your old trusty stratocaster.

@Sam_on_YouTube 3 месяца назад

I don't know about now, but SATs when I took them were measured in increments of 10. I got a 1420. 1480 is excellent. 1482... doesn't exist.

@SmokeBurp Месяц назад

that was one of those shows that EVERYONE watched. I had a crush on winnie cooper. lol

@robdotcom71 3 месяца назад

That was awesome..... thanks for making my night Brady.

@rarephoenix 2 месяца назад

Math is so fun. Every lecture is like a brand new episode of Breaking Bad. Never had a bad teacher in my life. Never a boring lesson. This is so cool Winnie is a number cruncher. ❤❤❤

@greensombrero3641 3 месяца назад

W.C.! I need help with my math homework! 🥰

@martinperry1843 3 месяца назад

She should team up with Mayim Bialik to do educational TV shows like a modern Bill Nye. They could have Natalie Portman too but that might push the budget beyond what kids educational content can manage.

@SporeTuberTV 3 месяца назад

Absolutely the two worst choices

@whophd 3 месяца назад

7:48 sounds like when you have the final successful turn in Jenga ... it's not really obvious when you've "succeeded"

@TheFlyingMage 3 месяца назад

Hey, I remember that girl. Glad to see she's ok.

@darreljones8645 3 месяца назад

I was just about at "the wonder years" myself when The Wonder Years was on.

@stapler942 3 месяца назад

Funny enough, I never saw The Wonder Years but I totally recognized McKellar from, of all things, the second episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. She shows up in the live action segment as this little girl claiming to be an orphan and she gets Mario and Luigi to pamper her. 😆

@d.yitzgoldstein3515 3 месяца назад

Her emotional self awareness is so refreshing!

@dneary 2 месяца назад

The worry that Danica mentions around 4:00 about forever being associated with the popular role as a kid really echoes what I've heard from Mayim Bialik after Blossom. There are a few other interesting stories of celebrities taking a break from one thing to return to college. John Urschel and Natalie Portman are two others!

@reddcube 3 месяца назад

I know her as the Hallmark Lady.

@jamesbrown-pk2do 3 месяца назад

I actually had to pause the video to help my daughter with her maths homework

@jussikuusela7345 3 месяца назад

Damn it DMK was hot in the series... and to think that it ran here 35 years ago... teensy-age me was glued to the TV. And she still is! And I instäntly recognized her in Law & Order... and that must have been 10+ years ago already.

@madrandomize5115 3 месяца назад

A Greek Godzilla had a stroke and died reading this title...

@wayneyadams 3 месяца назад

"That's a 1481." "1482, actually." I love it. I wonder what her actual math SAT and GRE scores were. A few years ago, they radically changed the math portion of the SAT so it is less like an IQ test and that is when I stopped tutoring.

@mujtabaalam5907 3 месяца назад

Yhe would be the best time to start tutoring as that makes it easier to study for

@dannysung3397 3 месяца назад

Hi had class with you! Sadly, I was too shy at the time to start a conversation. 😅 It’s so amazing everything you’ve accomplished!

@Sam_on_YouTube 3 месяца назад

Who's the greatest mathmetician/starlet: Danica McKeller Mayim Bialik Heady Lamar Given that Lamar invented the technology behind cell phones, I think she takes the cake.

@Kelnx 3 месяца назад

I don't think an actress and a composer coming up with the idea to use a player-piano mechanism for frequency hopping radio-guided torpedoes quite meets the levels in math and science that McKeller and Bialik achieved. Yes coming up with the idea was pretty brilliant, but they weren't "mathing it out" or anything, just pointing out that an already-existing piece of technology could be used for another application.

@sam08g16 3 месяца назад

Shaquille O'Neal

@christianbolt5761 3 месяца назад

Very cool. Inspirational person

@rodrigodeoliveiraleite5129 3 месяца назад

That's one random Numberphile video!

@TheAntibozo 2 месяца назад

Never watched the show, but what an extraordinary human! Thanks, Brady.

@devondecenzo2658 3 месяца назад

Wow @numberphile, it turns out we're around the same age! Like you, I also had a crush on Winnie. Seeing how much Danica McKellar has accomplished over the years is truly heartwarming. It's refreshing to hear such an uplifting story, especially considering how many child actors face challenges later on. This just makes me love math even more!

@rickintexas1584 3 месяца назад

My wife watches those Hallmark movies a lot. I always say,”is that Winnie?” The fact she has a math degree is definitely impressive. I can’t wait to show my wife. I’m 61, so Winnie was a little too young for me. But Danica is definitely a grown woman that I can appreciate 😊

@fabiopapes4027 3 месяца назад

Best show ever!

@pluto9000 3 месяца назад

Yes, I had a crush on winney when I was a kid. 😍

@shesh32 3 месяца назад

Wow. Beauty and brains. I remember her as Raj's hookup in Big Bang Theory.

@Inverted-Compass 3 месяца назад

The Math Art created for the title "The Wonder Years" is Very Clever ❤ -1

@chaos_omega 3 месяца назад

A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one!

@JohnAltenburg 3 месяца назад

Winnie For President!

@davidmilhouscarter8198 3 месяца назад

I was born in 1986. I remember watching re-runs of “The Wonder Years”.

@gigiki15 3 месяца назад

Phe W0NDSR PSEARS

@numberphile 3 месяца назад

My advice is treat the thumbnail as replacing letters with "math symbols" that resemble the shape of the English letters rather than treating them as literal Greek letters - otherwise madness will surely follow! :)

@madrandomize5115 3 месяца назад

@@numberphile " NO RAGRETS "

@schtoobs 3 месяца назад

I also remember Winnie as being one of my first crushes. What a nice lady she is (except for that time she calculated the mathematical formula for eternal youth and didn't tell anyone, obviously).

@soulofmen 3 месяца назад

Yep, thats me. I'm that person.

@prayforpeacenow 3 месяца назад

Great interview Brady!

@luketurner314 3 месяца назад

5:01 also if you're excited about advanced technologies. Often times when I want to share the latest tech news with friends and family, I must define all the terms I'm using for them to even understand what I'm talking about. For example, take Microsoft's new feature called "Recall", I have to first describe what it is and what it does (at least according to Microsoft), and then they can begin to see why it's such a big deal

@DeathlyTired 3 месяца назад

Coincidence is weird; about 15 minutes before this dropped, I searched "W G Snuffy Walden Winnies Theme", listened and was transported back to those wistful days in Harper's Woods as Percy Sledge played in the seminal scene from the Pilot.