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"I'm professor Moon Duchin, comma, mathematician." It's not even a math joke, but it is such a thing a mathematician would say. I'm sold, this woman is legit.

Imagine if they do a "politician explains politics" The questions gonna be very interesting😂

this is my professor, and they were amazing. I really, really dreaded taking a math class, but honestly their class was so interesting. moon explains things so well. I went to office hours a couple of times and was always blown away by how smart and cool they are. So brilliant and also able to boil things down to my level.

As someone who recently got their BSc in Math, I loved every second of this video. Professor Moon Duchin is so passionate, I envy the students who got her as their professor. I think the main FAQ I hear about math is “When will I need this in my life?” The simple answer to the majority of it is that you do not, but that rather it’s the opportunity to think logically, problem solve, and critically think and examine that you do need in your everyday life.

As a mathematician, I cannot express how real the love of chalkboard is real AF.

"Is it number-y." Perfect, incredible, I love this woman.

“We didn’t have to do it, but it’s pretty” Mathematics in a nutshell XD

When she talked about how ppl in math don't/can't explain their subject matter enough to the public, I felt it in my soul. When I was young, I really liked math, I felt like I understood it and could be proud of it, I even wanted to be a mathematician, it was a time when explanations made sense and weren't a handful of unintelligible(to me) jargon that had me stopping every 5 minutes asking for a more precise description. As that kept happening, repeatedly, where I constantly asked my teachers and felt like I was inconveniencing everybody, I eventually stopped asking for an explanation, stopped feeling curiosity, and steadily lost my love for math. It felt like the silent breakup couples have, you don't say it upfront, but you know there's a distance, and the boat to cross it had sunk deep down.

As a math major I love seeing people express what makes math exciting. We take ‘simple’ concepts like the number zero and poke holes in it. Things fall apart. Things get ugly. But then we manage to find even more profound and elegant concepts in the scraps! It’s a very beautiful and liberating experience.

“You can think of pi like this if you’re allergic to circles” 💀 Real talk, math major here. This woman is a true mathematician because she knows that not all mathematicians process the same concepts in the same ways. Some people need to be able to associate a concept with a shape i.e. draw it out, where as others can think of things numerically i.e equations and power series. So rad. So math.

I was never very good at math, but I can’t tell you how mesmerizing it is to listen to and watch someone who is so passionate about the subject explain it. There really aren’t words to describe it

I HATE math, but I LOVED this video, this professor is amazingly passionate, well-spoken, and allowed me to think something I NEVER thought I would or ever could, she made math interesting. We’ll done professor, we’ll done!

i love how she describes math as pretty it humanises it. math is seen as so cold and objective but what coldness can there be in something that is used to explain the nature of the universe purely out of curiousity and passion?

What a great teacher! I almost understood everything she said, and I hate math.

As someone who hated maths and still does..I really liked how she explained things which obviously went over my head but she's got a charming personality and I am sure no students would get bored in her class. Amazing teacher.

This mathematician should have a youtube channel

Very cool! Definitely try to invite her on again, really like how she explains stuff. Doing a "5 Levels of" for math would be difficult but if anyone can do that, she can.

Very cool person! Glad Wired is bringing all of these experts for us to learn

I could literally listen to Professor Moon talk about math for the rest of my life and be beyond content. I'm a geologist, math (and especially Calculus) terrifies me but I KNOW its importance and have invested significant portions of my soul to understand it so that I can be a geologist that my field needs. #MoreOfMoon