Mathematics and sex Clio Cresswell TEDxSydney

Yes, I'm the mathematician who's going to 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 the W for wife and the H for husband, so they modeled newlyweds talking about areas of contention like in-laws or money and then modeled the responses accordingly. with how each couple responded to each other's body language as well 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 many Therapy has been based on empathy and you laughed before so maybe don't say that when your partner get home, yeah baby I know, let me rub your feet and make your martini because what they really found out is that might not be the best way. moving forward maybe is the best path or

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revealed that having high standards and finding ways to achieve those standards is in fact the way to go, then mathematics is the study of patterns, all the symbols you see are, in fact, patterns that you know, encapsulating patterns and We're very used to seeing mathematics used in physics and engineering, but that's only because they've been there.

The most you know is equal to MC squared with alert. That's so early in 1900 that there's actually been an evolution since the '80s. We've seen math venture into 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, so There's new math coming out 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 TB while keeping the patient healthy, but making sure to avoid the antibiotic resistance that emerged a couple of years ago. weeks and analyze how an opinion spreads through a population and when will there be the coexistence of several opinions or a great consensus?

One of my favorites is a little older but I couldn't resist this one from 2009 and that's how to create the perfect melting chocolate. in your mouth but not in your hand and yes, these are very attractive equations. I'm sure you agree anyway, so math is absolutely everywhere nowadays and used everywhere, so it's no surprise that now you see equations for love, now love sucks. I know everyone knows this because yes, at first you are excited but then you are scared. Oh my god, I have an eighth. You are sitting looking at your phone. Please call. Please call.

Then if they send you a two word text message. I know it's like Donkey Kong so these equations look at which personality traits are most likely to come together to have a more stable companionship type love because some people just end up having continuous ups and downs, I mean imagine being in a relationship. with Charlie Sheen it would be very different to Donkey Kong and it also gets a little bit out of hand mathematically pretty quickly, so just to tell you that one of the things to keep in mind is if your partner overestimates your partner's. qualities so that with our partners we can behave a little like proud parents, you know, Isis money is sexy and everyone stares at this guy like me and anyway, here's some more math, now men report that in On average they have had sex with two or four times as many women as women do men and this doesn't make sense, I don't know, everyone is thinking, but what about prostitutes?

Prepare another girl in the world 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 that, so here's an example, here's Charlie Sheen, he's had sex with everyone and then the next guy just one that you forces us to see the result for women. The first ones had one, the others had two partners each and two four six eight nine nine divided by five and on 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 total of Both sides 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 for, you know, Brad, the guy with the sexy biceps, and men go for twenty years for the last five years. 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's in a woman's body where 28, how does your body taste? It's been 28 days and it's based on understanding why women have all their immature eggs at birth ready to go, but look, we hear a lot about women's arrangements at home, so I brought up Men's ones are real too. I'm not going to make you half of these models of the relationship between the brain and the testicles as the fluctuation occurs during the day, so I promise it's real. Testosterone, for example, peaks in the morning and falls. at night, 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 women, you know, if you ask a guy I prefer and I don't respond, just wait half an hour and ask again. just trying, trying to get that moment of depression, it has its purposes, although the peak also has another purpose, yes, this is all very fun and I could go on with funny math and sex problems for hours, but ultimately what I I propose 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 actually not very distracting.

You improve certain types of brain processes, but it turns out that there are two fundamental types of brain processes: you think globally or locally, 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 go. leads 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 finding findings that are actually very easy to manipulate, so if it gets people thinking 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, it's that easy and here's the The question The most important thing I'm interested in is what is this thing called mathematics that has only been around for about two thousand years and appeared independently all over the world and that so many people swear they can't do.

He sees that there is something that is not completely reconciled. There is something you can do. I don't have something that has 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's a report card from school of mine in French, my parents of these wild and wild travelers always searching while at parties, I am actually the conservative descendant of some wild crazy people and as you see we live in great parties there but the most important thing is that you can see two of 24 math and my best result was 15 for problems, 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. At the core of the animal kingdom, you see that even reptiles recognize whether it is 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. of animals will recognize if another pack 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 has no self-awareness. or a linguistic ability to capture those innate sensations, so if the rat just taps 3 times, 1 2 3 it will do fine, but once it gets to 16, poor little rap is like tapping, it doesn't know where it is reaching 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 things. and we still arrived at the same result, we went even further to plus B equals B plus a I can substitute any of the infinite numbers that I now know into that formula and it means the same thing, you see, language is more than just naming things. with it we also have cause and effect and temporal reasoning and you will 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, it is very precise what We are doing in each step what is true or false in each classification, that is in the Box, you know, or outside the box, it is very clear maximum precision and that is why mathematics is so powerful and is used every more and more in the sects and that's it. why is it so difficult because you are using the limits of our evolution to their extreme, we are using, we are taming those innate sensations with the maximum precision that we can, I mean the mathematics, as you can see, is what is so impressive. is that it arose 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 mathematics or pure pattern recognition They just fit together.

Mathematics is found at the roots of humanity, like sex. It transcends human culture and now that I've shared it with you, you are the sexiest women in town, thank you.