What is Mathematical Thinking & How to Foster Love of Math in Children & Adults
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Stacy Harris will be interviewed by Shrikant on:
- How is real mathematics as understood by a mathematician different from mathematics as it is taught in schools?
- What is the heart of mathematics? What is abstraction?
- What are different styles of grasping mathematics? What is difference between visual and linguistic approaches to mathematics?
- How is thinking in algebra as opposed to only arithmetic key to unlocking the meaning of mathematics?
- Is mathematics about focusing on processes of transformations rather than concrete products?
- What is the value of mathematical puzzles?
- How does a mathematician approach the “Eight Queens Problem” differently than most people?
- What is the relationship between mathematics and artistic sensibility?
- How do you foster love of mathematics in children?
- How can adults unlearn their misconceptions about mathematics and discover it for the first time?
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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivists". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.
July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ Fearnley
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
Aug 5: Optimize Everything: Interview with mathematician Spencer Greenberg on Psychology, society, technology & science https://youtu.be/P7sJrtwazeI
Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley https://youtu.be/u6372Te2YA8
Aug 16: Your 50 Year Experiment: Ideas of Buckminster Fuller with D W Jacobs https://youtu.be/DnY3ptAjweo
Aug 19: Polymaths in 21st Century with Dr Angela Cotellessa https://youtu.be/ltbPex0oVAY
Aug 26: The Art-Experience and The Architecture of Our Identities with Karen Montanaro https://youtu.be/MwduocAYKZ8
Aug 30: Polymath Research & Sparks of Genius with Drs Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein https://youtu.be/hxkKd2XqkWI
Aug 30: Overview of Four Systems/Functions: Intuition, Deliberation, Transformation & Valuing with Shrikant: https://youtu.be/tSIbCp9N02s
Sep 2: Neuroscience: Why are our Habits so Powerful? with Sanjay
Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley
Sep 23: Lightening Talks (Talk for 5 minutes about what you are exploring)
Sep 30: The Great Conversation & Syntopicon of Mortimer Adler with Shrikant
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