MC3 Videos
Thursday 10 April
12:00—13:00 Heather Mendick Mathematical Popular Cultures
14:00—15:00 Michael Harris The Science of Tricks
15:20—16:00 Henrik Kragh Sørensen Narrating Abel: Aesthetics as biography of the mathematical persona in public culture
16:10—16:50 Michael Barany Remunerative Combinatorics: Mathematicians and their Sponsors after the Second World War
Friday 11 April
9:30 —10:10 Albrecht Heeffer Jesuit strategies for the recruitment of interest in mathematics after the Ratio Studiorum (1599)
10:10—10:50 Alexandre Borovik Mathematics in the new pattern of division of labour
11:20—12:00 Tom Archibald and Veselin Jungic Mathematics and First Nations in Western Canada: From Cultural Destruction to a Re-awakening of Traditional Reflections on Quantity and Form
12:00—12.40 Markus Pantsar The Great Gibberish: Mathematics in Western Popular Culture
13:30—14:10 Jean Paul Van Bendegem The practice of proof rather than proof
14.10—14:50 Timothy Johnson Is fairness a mathematical concept?
15:20 —16:00 Paul Ernest Questioning the Value of Mathematics
16:00—16:40 Emil Simeonov Is mathematics an issue of general education?
Saturday 12 April
10:40—11:20 Elizabeth Hind Mathematics in STEM education – Where does it fit?
11.50 —12.50 Madeline Muntersbjorn Mathematics and Morality
13:30—14:30 Tony Mann Mathematics in fiction: the novels of Catherine Shaw