6th March

Mathematics for Human Flourishing

Name: Mathematics for Human Flourishing
Start: 2024-03-06T16:30:34+1030
End: 2024-03-06T17:30:00+1030
Location: University of South Australia, City West Campus

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The Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion invites you to attend

Mathematics for Human Flourishing

Presented by Francis Su,
Benediktsson-Karwa Professor, Harvey Mudd College

This talk is aimed at a wide audience – including those who don’t see themselves as ‘maths people’ – and is an opportunity not to be missed!

People often think of maths as just a set of skills, like doing arithmetic or factoring a quadratic. Yet amazingly, maths is a deeply human enterprise that can meet basic human longings, such as for beauty and exploration and truth, and can builds virtues like persistence, creativity, joy and wonder. In an era where computers and AI can outperform humans at maths skills, we must reclaim the importance of maths as a vehicle for developing virtue. An incarcerated man---now my friend--has helped me see this more clearly than ever before.

Francis Su is the Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and a former President of the Mathematical Association of America. In 2013, he received the Haimo Award, a nationwide teaching prize in the United States for college math faculty. His work has been featured in Quanta Magazine, Wired, and the New York Times. His book Mathematics for Human Flourishing (2020), winner of the 2021 Euler Book Prize, has been translated into eight languages and offers an inclusive vision of what math is, who it’s for, and why anyone should learn it.

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The University of South Australia’s Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion (CRESI) is one of the largest research concentrations in the world that is focused on contributing to new knowledge about issues related to educational and social inclusion.

Like many countries, Australia is experiencing widening economic and educational inequality which is undermining the social cohesion, national productivity, and the wellbeing of the population. In fact, Australia is now one of the least equitable educational systems in the OECD.

CRESI researchers have a range of interdisciplinary expertise to undertake a broad scope of research that contribute to and mitigate educational and social inequalities.

Our mission is to generate research-based knowledge to inform inclusive educational and social policy and practices across the lifespan. We conduct interdisciplinary research to generate knowledge of systemic forms of exclusion; policy analysis and critique focusing on policies' effects; theory building to understand complex phenomena; and case studies of hopeful sites of educational and social inclusion. Our research contributes to greater education equity to enhance social cohesion and wellbeing.

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