Seminar, SS 2024

Time and Place: Tuesday 10:15-11:45, T 406/1.

Kontakt: Josef Schicho, email: josef.schicho@risc.jku.at

Mathematics is embedded in its time, it is influenced by sociological factors and it has consequences for the society. The talks in this seminar should be about various aspects of this interaction.

Mode: Every participant chooses a topic and prepares a talk for about 45 minutes (to have some time left for discussion). Topics can be chosen from the list below, but the seminar is also open to new topics. At least 8 days before the talk a concept should be sent to me. One week before the talk, I will meet the speaker to have a preparatory meeting.

Talks:

• 5.3. Organization (distribution of slots and topics)
• 9.4.
• 16.4.
• 23.4. Hannah Maria Weiss: Software in mathematical education
• 30.4.
• 7.5.
• 14.5. Lukas Hochholzer: The foundational crisis
• 28.5. Mario Pistrich: Interpretations of probability
• 11.6.
• 18.6.
• 25.6.

Possible topics:

• Interpretations of quantum mechanics
• Potential effects of AI on the practise of mathematics
• Truth in Mathematics
• Set theoretical vs. category theoretical foundations
• Relativity theory and its mathematical foundations