How learning German taught me the link between maths and poetry | Harry Baker | TEDxVienna
In mathematics there are right answers. In poetry there are no wrong ones. Find out how learning a foreign language, especially one that can be as beautifully ...
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Translator: Nadine Hennig Reviewer: Robert Tucker I applied to university to study medicine but switched courses to do maths so that I would have more time to write poetry. (Laughter) Thank you for laughing at my life choices. (Laughter) (Applause) And, apart from one of the first poems I wrote, being a love poem about prime numbers, I told myself that the two weren't really that linked. I liked maths because there was always a definite right answer, and I liked poetry because there wasn't a definite wrong one. But for me, when I switched courses to do maths, I was given the option of doing maths with a year abroad, and I thought that would be a fun way to live in another country and experience another culture. So for a year I lived and studied maths in Germany, and I th...
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Translator: Nadine Hennig Reviewer: Robert Tucker I applied to university to study medicine but switched courses to do maths so that I would have more time to write poetry. (Laughter) Thank you for laughing at my life choices. (Laughter) (Applause) And, apart from one of the first poems I wrote, being a love poem about prime numbers, I told myself that the two weren't really that linked. I liked maths because there was always a definite right answer, and I liked poetry because there wasn't a definite wrong one. But for me, when I switched courses to do maths, I was given the option of doing maths with a year abroad, and I thought that would be a fun way to live in another country and experience another culture. So for a year I lived and studied maths in Germany, and I th...
