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 page: 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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