23 Hamming, Learning to Learn: Mathematics, 18 May 1995
Channel: Hamming on Hamming: Learning to Learn
Date: 2018-03-01

As you live your life, your attention is generally on the foreground things, and the background is usually taken for granted. We take for granted, most of the time, air, water, and many other things such as language and Mathematics. When you have worked in an organization for a long time its structure, its methods, and its "ethos" if you wish, are usually taken for granted.

00:00 Introduction
03:29 Will they have the same mathematics?
08:25 Most mathematicians will speak of discovering a theorem
10:55 How can I explain the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics 
11:51 Proof of a theorem
16:33 What is this truth in mathematics?
20:46 Intuitions
24:23 Paradoxes in mathematics
27:00 Meanings change
30:44 Describe how words are used
34:00 Don't use the sum of the squares except in the physical world
40:11 Mathematics does not fit as well
45:46 End


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