The Most Meaningful Experiences

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The people who have the most impact in our lives and who touch us are often grace givers. I think all of us deserve to see the beauty of mathematics whatever ways makes sense to us. We're such an achievement oriented a culture,. achievement oriental society, but when we think about it, the most meaningful experiences that we have actually happen in moments between people where they could care less about your resume. They could care lessabout you've done.

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.