How Do You Speak Maths?

Entering university mathematics can often be overwhelming. You are, in a sense, learning a whole new way of describing and encapsulating things, a whole new language. As with any language, the more you use it the more you begin to think in it, and this is what you go to university to do. In the linked video, I introduce the vocabulary and syntax of mathematics in the hopes that you see the all the funny squiggles for what they are: abstract symbols with rules attached that allow us to find absolute truths through careful logic and creative proofs.

https://youtu.be/kihT0Ygq8hw?si=HRxy_abNP30LtB3b

I published this video as part of a series over the summer of 2019 as part of the Student Shapers programme at Imperial College London, in collaboration with the expert Maths Department there.