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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