The Math/Stats Colloquium is excited to present the third of our four new assistant professors, Wesley Maciejewski, on “Mathematical Foresight: Thinking in the Future to Work in the Present”. How do users of mathematics solve mathematical problems? The automaticity of solving a basic derivative-finding task and the schema evoked during less routine problems are familiar, but this presentation will focus on another process: Mathematical Foresight. Mathematicians solving unfamiliar, non-routine problems often imagine a resolution to the problem and a path leading to that resolution. This amounts to imagining the problem in a future state, and this future thinking guides the mathematician’s present work forward. This talk will present the main features of this process alongside evidence of mathematicians and students engaging in it.
Background: No particular background necessary.
- Date: Fri Oct 21
- Time: 2:30-3:20pm
- Room: MH320
- Snacks: 2:00pm in MH331B
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Hope to see you there!
Upcoming events:
- Fri Oct 28: Department meeting
- Fri Oct 28: Yan Zhang, SJSU
“Voting Theory ‘Theorems’ and Misapplied Math” - Next colloquium after that: Fri Nov 18