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Is the traditional mathematics blackboard lecture dead?

The Australian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting this year included a public debate on the topic “Is the traditional mathematics blackboard lecture dead?” I was on the affirmative team.

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Some pure mathematics and consciousness

In November 2017 I gave a talk to the Monash Consciousness Research Laboratory (Tsuchiya Lab). I talked about some pure mathematical ideas that have appeared in the literature on the frontiers of neuroscience and the study of consciousness — gauge theory, and category theory.

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Recent popular talks

  • “There is always room for a new theory in mathematics”: Maryna Viazovska and her mathematics
  • May 12 talk on Maryam Mirzakhani
  • Five-minute surrealist antiwar exposition of topological data analysis
  • I got problems – congruence problems
  • Topology: The shape of space
  • “I liked doing what I wasn’t supposed to do”: the life and mathematics of Karen Uhlenbeck
  • The beauty of mathematics shows itself to patient followers
  • Is the traditional mathematics blackboard lecture dead?
  • Some pure mathematics and consciousness
  • Sciencey: Why do earphones get tangled?
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