“I want to talk about the power of passion and arts education,” explained Laura Mulligan Thomas, longtime director of the Charlottesville High School Orchestra. But only one of them will be accompanied by an orchestra. TEDx is first and foremost a community-based discussion, so many of the speakers will be local notables. Speakers include such personalities as Zoë Romano, the first person to run across the United States without a support vehicle Joel Fuhrman, a specialist in radical nutrition-based cures for chronic diseases Ralph Cohen, founder of the American Shakespeare Center and Leslie Gordon, discoverer of a gene defect causing premature aging. “There has been an amazing amount of community support already, and we’ve only been advertising for three weeks.” “We expect about a thousand people to attend,” Knight said. Tickets go on sale beginning at noon Friday. After the talks, attendees are invited to the Jefferson Theater for drinks, live music and a chance to chat about what they’ve heard. It will feature a host of colorful speakers, as well as four TED Talks screenings at the Paramount Theater.ĭowntown Mall restaurants The Nook, Blue Light Grill, Mono Loco and others will team up to serve lunch at the Main Street Arena. TEDxCharlottesville is an all-day affair planned for Nov. “We want to inspire people to leave their comfort zones and create a better Charlottesville.” “We’ve invited speakers who have done amazing things,” said Jackie Knight, who is one of more than 120 volunteers organizing the event. In November, the talks will get a local twist when Charlottesville hosts its very own TED summit.
Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers.Mathematics is used as the language of science, but can it be used to describe history? Under 6 minutes long, this TED talk by Jean-Baptiste Michel uncovers how the digitised world can discover underlying mathematical patterns in our history and in mankind.If you enjoyed my post on fractals, you will throughly enjoy this TED Talk. Mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbroit talks about a concept he first began studying in 1984 – roughness – and how the mathematics of fractals can facilitate its study.In order to create the ugliest piece of music, Rickard talks about how he stripped his piece of repetition using ‘Costas Array’, describing it as “music only a mathematician could write”. What makes music beautiful? Scott Rickard suggests that patterns are key to musical beauty.The beautiful math behind the world’s ugliest music.
I personally love TED Talks – I find them informative, whilst being at the adequate level for me, a sixth former, to understand. I just wanted to write a quick post to tell you about my top 5 TED Talks about mathematics.
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