CNN's John Sutter talks to mathematician and author of a new book about justice. How is math connected to the pursuit of justice? "Math actual gives us a way of quantifying what it means for a a set of districts to be overtly partisan or not" He says his friend in prison, who didn't finish high school, has discovered love for math while incarcerated.
Every day, we humans do math. Whether we are obsessed with a logic puzzle on our smartphones or even just calculating a morning alarm that gives you 8 more minutes in bed, our daily lives are full of numbers, quantities, shapes and patterns. And for Francis Su—a writer and Professor of Mathematics and the Former President of the Mathematical Association of America—math is actually one of the things that makes us human. In today’s episode he talks about how mathematics can serve as a tool for social justice, how math can enhance our sense of aesthetics and beauty, why math is one of the last refuges of truth in a time where misinformation is rampant, and how we can all learn to cultivate, and even come to love, the little daily mathematics of our lives.