• 30: Alex Kontorovich - Outreach, outsiders, and obeisance

  • Jan 23 2025
  • Durée: 49 min
  • Podcast

30: Alex Kontorovich - Outreach, outsiders, and obeisance

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  • Résumé

  • Alex Kontorovich is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University with lots of experience in teaching and outreach. In our talk, we will touch on diverse topics, including:

    - why care about math (and its history)

    - what can outsiders bring to the table

    - how useful it is to be the dumbest in the room

    - where music meets math and where it doesn't

    Startovač: https://www.startovac.cz/patron/misto-problemu/

    FB stránka: https://www.facebook.com/mistoproblemu

    Web: https://www.mistoproblemu.cz/

    Timestamps:

    (0:00) introduction

    (00:46) problems, proofs, and thinking styles

    (13:16) outreach, motivation, and explaining concepts

    (28:06) interdisciplinarity and outsiders

    (33:30) people teaching computers and vice versa

    (39:52) stamina, humility, music, and gratitude

    Links:

    - MoMath: https://momath.org/

    - Natural Number Game: https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/leanprover-community/nng4

    - Lean in the browser: https://live.lean-lang.org/

    - Prime Number Theorem project: https://github.com/AlexKontorovich/PrimeNumberTheoremAnd

    - other Lean projects: https://leanprover-community.github.io/lean_projects.html

    - polymath projects: https://polymathprojects.org/

    - Alex's website: https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~alexk/
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