Mathematics - Key to the Real World

Abstract: 

In mathematics, you sit in the armchair and think (like philosophy), but you prove results that everyone accepts (unlike philosophy), and they apply to the real world (like physics, but without the hard work of experiment). How is that possible? James Franklin explains the Aristotelian realist philosophy of mathematics of the ‘Sydney School’, which holds that mathematics is a science of the quantitative and structural properties of the world. (No technical knowledge of mathematics is needed to appreciate this talk.)

The Forum meets at the Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre, cnr Gardiner Crescent & the Great Western Highway, 4pm-6pm, followed by informal discussion at the pub. Admission is $10 and includes a big afternoon tea before question time. Hall is heated. All welcome!

For more program details please go to: http://www.blackheathphilosophy.org

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