Math

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of math.

Video playlists about Math

Math talks to blow your mind

11 talks • 2h 21m
Numbers, patterns and equations are at the core of these talks, which will teach you how to fold better origami and how to quantify history.

Talks for people who hated math in high school

6 talks • 1h 9m
Math might have been dry and boring in high school, but it is actually AWESOME. If only it had been this fun when you were getting graded.

Talks by brilliant women in STEM

11 talks • 2h 30m
These women are trailblazers inspiring a new generation of girls to follow their lead and change the ratio in STEM (science, math, engineering and tech).

The influence of algorithms

6 talks • 1h 28m
Algorithms play a big part in our day-to-day lives. From search engines to architecture, explore how these formulas affect the way we view and interact with the world around us.
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Talks about Math

11:45

Mona Chalabi

3 ways to spot a bad statistic

Posted Mar 2017
12:49

Alan Smith

Why you should love statistics

Posted Jan 2017
12:00

Dan Bricklin

Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet

Posted Jan 2017
17:04

Roger Antonsen

Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world

Posted Nov 2016
4:29 Under 6 minutes

Rainn Wilson

Ideas worth dating

Posted Oct 2016
16:23

Cédric Villani

What's so sexy about math?

Posted Jun 2016
23:03

Jim Simons

The mathematician who cracked Wall Street

Posted Sep 2015
12:08

Rajiv Maheswaran

The math behind basketball's wildest moves

Posted Jul 2015
4:19 Under 6 minutes

Jedidah Isler

How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe

Posted Apr 2015
9:41

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón

Math is forever

Posted Apr 2015
13:58

Harry Baker

A love poem for lonely prime numbers

Posted Mar 2015
17:02

Hannah Fry

The mathematics of love

Posted Feb 2015
9:29

Randall Munroe

Comics that ask "what if?"

Posted May 2014
12:10

Gavin Schmidt

The emergent patterns of climate change

Posted May 2014
11:48

Alex Wissner-Gross

A new equation for intelligence

Posted Feb 2014
6:24

Arthur Benjamin

The magic of Fibonacci numbers

Posted Nov 2013
See all 57 talks on Math

Exclusive articles about Math

Justice in the age of big data

Justice should be blind, right? Unfortunately, the predictive policing software used in much of the US has bias and misunderstanding programmed right into it, says data scientis...

When should you settle down?

Who knew equations and graphs could guide your love life? Mathematician Hannah Fry does — and shares a few formulas for finding The One. When it comes to love, making long-term ...
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