Mathematics and sex | Clio Cresswell | TEDxSydney

yes, I'm the mathematician who will catch you so late and to start I need you to stare at this equation. I mean, there's your first orgasm. I know, but these are very sophisticated equations that model a successful marriage and their groundbreaking equations because it was the first time that truly sophisticated

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was used in the field of romance and they predict with a 95 percent accuracy rate whether the newlyweds would They will be together in six years and you can see there is W for wife and H for husband, so they modeled The newlyweds talked about areas of contention like in-laws or money and then modeled the responses according to how each couple was also responding to the other's body language and what emerged was this interesting influencing factor at the end that actually revealed that Couples who were less responsive to each other were more likely to have a successful marriage, which means I see that some People are like we know, so the couples who were less committed ended up being together more and this was very interesting because there was a lot of therapy.

It's been based on empathy and you laughed before so maybe don't say when your partner gets home yeah baby I know let me rub your feet and make you the martini because what they really found out is that it might not be the best way to go. maybe the best way or

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revealed that having high standards and finding ways to achieve those standards is indeed the way to go, then mathematics is the study of patterns, all the symbols you see are in fact patterns that encapsulate patterns and we are very used to seeing mathematics used in physics and engineering, but that is only because they have been there.

The most you know is equal to mc-squared. Whether it was the beginning of the 20th century, there has actually been an evolution since the 80s. We have seen mathematics venture into the stock market. analysis risk analysis you already knew that and then, since the 90s or 2000s, we are even seeing that mathematics enters the sometimes called softer sciences such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology, which is why they appear new math every day, so I brought some just to remind you. how that works, so here's some more recent research looking at antibiotic use and how to implement antibiotics for tuberculosis while keeping the patient healthy but making sure to avoid antibiotic resistance that emerged a couple of weeks ago and This analyzes how an opinion works. it spreads across a population and when you will have the coexistence of several opinions or a large consensus one of my favorites that is a little older but I couldn't resist this one from 2009 and that's how to create the perfect chocolate that melts in your mouth but not in your hand and yes, these are very attractive equations.

I'm sure you agree anyway, so mathematics is absolutely everywhere nowadays and used everywhere, so it's no surprise that we're now looking at the equations for love, love. It sucks, I know everyone knows this because yeah, at first you're excited but then you're scared. Oh my god, I haven't eaten. You are sitting looking at your phone. Please call. Please call. Then they send you a word of two. Text, you know who it is, like Donkey Kong, so these equations look at what personality traits are most likely to come together to have a more stable type of companionship, love, because some people just end up having continuous ups and downs, I want I mean, imagine being in a relationship with Charlie Sheen would be very different from Donkey Kong and it also gets a little out of hand mathematically pretty quickly, so just to tell you that another thing to keep in mind is if your partner overestimates the qualities of your couple.

So with our partners we can behave a little like proud parents. You know, Isis, mine is too sexy and everyone looks at the sky as if they are reflected. Anyway, here's some more math. Men now report that, on average, they have had sex with two to four times as many women as women. What about men and this doesn't make sense? No? I know you're all thinking, but what about the prostitutes who were burned? Another girl in the world. What about my ex? She slept with everyone. No, every time a man has sex with a woman, there are averages for other things, but in a large enough sample space it will be more or less the same, not like this, so here's an example from Charlie Sheen, ha had sex with all of them and then the next guy only one, which forces you to see the result of the women the first one has had one the others have had two partners each and two four six eight nine nine divided by five and the right five six seven eight nine nine divided by five every time a man has sex with a woman it is added to the general count of both parties now, why is there this discrepancy?

Because the surveys are confidential and non-identifiable and it turns out that if you ask about kinky things, people are very honest, so what we resort to is that we believe it is a counting strategy, because if you list yourself. You're going to be prone to underestimation and if you get close, you're going to be prone to overestimation, so it seems like women go, you know, Justin Brad, the guy with the sexy biceps, and men go twenty years for the last five years, right? You know? My favorite clue in all the data was that 80% of the men's results were divisible by 5, so of course mathematicians like you know that they like to go back to a few more waves, of course there are waves in the women's hormones and these equations analyze what type of mechanism.

It is in the body of a woman that the 28, as your body knows, have passed 28 days and it is based on understanding why women have all their immature eggs at birth ready to come out but look we hear a lot about women's agreements or moans What suit in men? Also, these are real. I won't even make them half. These model the relationship between the brain and testicles as the fluctuation occurs throughout the day, so I promise they are real. Testosterone, for example, has a spike in the morning and a dip in the evening, but there's actually a mini spike of testosterone every two to two and a half hours in between, so you know what that means, especially for Women, you know, if you ask a guy a favor and he doesn't respond, wait half an hour and ask again. trying to just try to get that moment of depression, it has its purposes, although the peak also has another purpose and look, yes, this is all a lot of fun and I could go on with fun math and sex problems for hours, but ultimately, of what it's about is our amazing brain and the impact of abstract thinking and the power of abstract thinking, so let me change things up a little bit and tell you what you think happens if you think about sex before you do math because it's not really distracting. a lot. it actually gets better at certain types of brain processes because it turns out that there are two fundamental types of brain processes: you think globally or locally in forests or trees and when you're solving a problem you often start with the global type of analysis and then you have to go deeper and follow the clues that lead to solutions and it turns out that we are now seeing with the latest research that this is related to creative thinking versus analytical thinking and more than that, we are finally discovering that it is actually very easy to manipulate, so If you can get people to think about love and then solve problems, they will be better at globalization, at the beginning of the creative part, and if you can get two people to think about sex, they will be better at the problem-solving part of the process, so easy and here is the most important question that interests me: what is this thing called mathematics that has only been around for about two thousand years and that arose independently all over the world and that so many people swear they can't do? you see there's something that doesn't quite reconcile there's something that I can't have something that developed so recently with some people who just have a little more brains, no that doesn't make sense, it's about finding the right triggers and here There is a report card of me in French, my parents of these wild and wild travelers always.

Looking for parties for a while, I am actually the conservative descendant of some wild crazy people and as you see we live in big parties there but the most important thing is that you can see two out of 24 math and my best result was 15 on the table or on the manual technique. witches would work, so it's very clear to me what life is like without mathematics and once I discovered mathematics at 18, when I came to Australia, it was the first time I connected with something pure, with something that was so Amazing, you see, pattern recognition is right at the center of the animal kingdom, you see that even reptiles recognize whether it's something to eat, fight or have sex with, and even a jellyfish knows up and down.

Now the seeds of the numerical concept are also part of the animal. kingdom, a herd of animals will recognize if another herd is larger than theirs, and in fact, you can teach a rat to press a lever an approximate number of times to get food. Now you see how I use the word approximate, that's because the rat doesn't have the self-awareness or the linguistic ability to tame those innate sensations, so if the rat only taps 3 times, 1 2 3 will get it right, but once When it reaches 16, the poor little rat taps and doesn't know it. as far as it goes and in fact it's the same with us if you do an experiment where we can't count we will make exactly the same mistakes as the rat now we went further we did things like 2 plus 5 equals 5 plus 2 I can change the order of the things and still get to the same result we went even further a plus B is equal to B plus a I can substitute any of the infinite numbers that we now know in that formula and it means the same thing as you see the language It's more than just naming things, too we have cause and effect and temporal reasoning and you see that mathematics is our most precise use of this syntactic understanding because with mathematics in each step you are creating the pattern that links the discovery there is no ambiguity. very precise what you are doing in each step what is in each classification true or false that is in the box you know or outside the box is very clear maximum precision and that is why mathematics is so powerful and is used every time more at all times to sex and that is why it is so difficult because you are using the limits of our evolution to its extreme, we are using, we are taming those innate sensations with the greatest precision that we can see, I mean the mathematics, as you can see, it's What's so impressive is that it emerged independently all over the world and when people came together in peace or war, they may have clashed when it came to religion, cultures, languages, but their math or pure pattern recognition just fell into place.

You see, mathematics is right at the roots of Humanity likes sex, it transcends human culture and now that I've shared with you that you are the sexiest women in town, thank you kind of analysis and then you have to go deeper and follow the clues to the solutions and it turns out that we are Now we see with the latest research that this is related to creative thinking versus analytical thinking and more than that, we are finally discovering that it is actually very easy to manipulate, so if If you get people to think about love and then solve problems, they will be better at Globalization is the beginning of the creative part and if you get two people to think about sex, they will get better at the problem-solving part of the process, it's that easy. and here's the biggest question I'm interested in: what is this thing called mathematics that's only been around for about two thousand years that arose independently all over the world and that so many people swear they can't see, is there something that isn't quite reconciled, there's something you can't have, something that developed so recently and some people just have a little more brains. no, that doesn't make sense, it's about finding the right triggers and here's a report card from me in french my parents are these wild, wild travelers who are always looking for parties.

In reality I am the conservative descendant of some crazy and wild people and as you see, we live in great parties there, but the most important thing is that you can see 2 out of 24 mathematics and my best result was 15 due to problems with the manual technique, which would work, so it is very clear to me what life is like without mathematics and once I discovered mathematics at the age of 18 when I came to Australia. It was the first time I connected with something pure, with something so surprising. Pattern recognition is right at the center of the animal kingdom.

Even reptiles recognize if it is something to eat. fight or have sex and even a jellyfish knows up and down now the seeds of the concept of number are also part of the animal kingdom apackage of yes, I am the mathematician who will make you have sex and to start I need you to look at this equation. I mean, there's your first orgasm. I know, but these are very sophisticated equations that model a successful marriage and their groundbreaking equations because it was the first time that truly sophisticated mathematics was used in the field of romance and they predict with a 95 percent accuracy rate whether the newlyweds would They will be together in six years and you can see there is the W for wife and the H for husband, so they modeled the newlyweds talking about areas of contention like in-laws or money and then modeled the responses of according to how each partner responded to the other's body language as well, and what emerged was this interesting influencing factor in the end that actually revealed that couples who were less responsive to each other were more likely to be in a relationship. successful marriage, that means I see that some people are like we know it Couples who were less committed ended up being more together and this was very interesting because a lot of therapy has been based on empathy and before you laughed, so maybe you don't say when Your partner comes home, yes baby, I know, let me rub you. feet and make your martini because what they've actually discovered is that maybe it's not the best way forward, maybe the best way or the math revealed that having high standards and finding ways to meet those standards is, in fact, the way to go so mathematics is the study of patterns all the symbols you see are in fact patterns encapsulating patterns and we are very used to seeing mathematics used in physics and engineering but that is what we come back to a few more waves, of course, there are waves in female hormones. and these equations analyze what kind of mechanism is in a woman's body that 28, how does her body know?

It's been 28 days and it's all about understanding why women have all their immature eggs at birth ready to go, but look, we hear a lot. about women's agreement or moans, I also brought men's ones, these are real. I'm not going to do them in half. These model the relationship between the brain and testicles as the fluctuation occurs throughout the day, so I promise these are real testosterone, for example. a peak in the morning and a dip in the evening, but there's actually a mini spike of testosterone every two to two and a half hours in between, so you know what that means, especially for women, you know if you ask for a favor to a boy and he doesn't respond. just wait half an hour and ask again just try it just try and get that moment of depression it has its purposes although the spike also has another purpose and look yes this is all very fun and I could go on with funny math and sex problems for hours but ultimately what I'm talking about is our amazing brain and the impact of abstract thinking and the power of abstract thinking, so let me change things up a little bit and tell you what you think happens if you think about sex before you do math. .

Because it's not really very distracting, you'll actually get better at certain types of brain processes because it turns out that there are two fundamental types of brain processes where you think globally or locally, forests or trees, and when you're solving a problem, it often starts with the global caucus that has been there, the most you know is equal to mc-squared, whether it is so early in the 20th century, there has actually been an evolution since the 80s, we have seen mathematics venture into the stock market analysis, risk analysis that you knew and then since the 90s or even in the 2000s, we are seeing mathematics enter the sciences sometimes called softer, such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology, so new math comes out every day, so I brought some in just to remind you how it works, so here's some native research that we're looking at. use of antibiotics and how to implement antibiotics for tuberculosis while keeping the patient healthy, but making sure to avoid antibiotic resistance that emerged a couple of weeks ago and this is analyzing how an opinion spreads in a population and when it will have the coexistence of several opinions or a great consensus one of my favorites that is a little older but I couldn't resist this one from 2009 and that's how to create the perfect chocolate that melts in your mouth but not in your hand and yes, these They are very sexy equations.

I'm sure you agree anyway, so mathematics is absolutely everywhere these days and used everywhere, so it's really no surprise that we're now looking at the equations for love, now the Love stinks. I know you all know because yeah excited at first but then you're scared oh my god I haven't eaten you're sitting looking at your phone please call please call and then they send you a two word text you know who it is like Donkey Kong and then these equations look at which personality traits are most likely to come together to have a more stable type of companionate love because some people end up having continuous ups and downs.

I mean imagine being in a relationship with Charlie Sheen that would be very different from Donkey Kong. and also this way it gets a little bit out of hand mathematically pretty quickly, so just to tell you that this is another thing to look out for is whether your partner overestimates your partner's qualities, so with couples we can behave a little bit like proud parents. I know Isis Marny is beyond sexy and everyone just looks at this guy like me, anyway, here's more math. Now men report having had sex on average with two to four times as many women as women than men and this doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense.

I know you're all thinking, but what about the reborn prostitutes? Another girl in the world about my ex who slept with. Everyone knows that every time a man has sex with a woman, there are averages for other things, but in a large enough sample space. It's going to be more or less the same, not like that, so here is an example of Charlie Sheen, he had sex with everyone and then with the next only one, which forces you to see the result for women, the first ones had one, the others had two partners. each one and two four six eight nine nine divided by five and to the right five six seven eight nine nine divided by five every time a man has sex with a woman it is added to the overall count of both parties now why is there this discrepancy because the surveys are confidential and non-identifiable and it turns out that if you ask about perverted things people are very honest, so we resort to what we believe is a counting strategy because if you enumerate you will be prone to underestimation and if you come close you will be prone to an overestimation, so it seems like women go, you know, Justin Brad, the guy with the sexy biceps at the end, and men go twenty years for the last five years.

You know, my favorite clue in all the data was that 80%. of the men's results were divisible by 5, so of course mathematicians like you know that you like