Comedy
This week, Oakland comedian and math-degree-haver Erik Krasner joins me to answer all of my stupid, juvenile questions about math. We discuss why people think math is scary (and why they really shouldn't) and the beauty of proofs. Erik also walks me through how to prove the pythagorean theorem. Check out his diagrams below, which are presented in chronological order. When drawn on a sphere, the sum of the interior angles of a triangle add up to greater than 180 degrees. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_geometry] - The Pythagorean Theorem [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem] - The relationship between sine and cosine. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric_functions#Sine,_cosine,_and_tangent] - Proving the Pythagorean theorem.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#Pythagorean_proof]