Understanding the behaviour of the mathematical community

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• Maurice Chiodo, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Cambridge
• Monday 17 November 2025, 16:00-18:00
• Meeting Room 13, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

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Just like every other academic field, mathematicians form their own community, with their own conventions, common beliefs, and schools of thought. We hand our teachings down through the generations, and this process goes all the way back to Euclid. But the ways of thinking we employ when doing mathematics in an abstract research setting may not serve us well in an industrial setting. It is important to be aware that not all the actions that make us good at mathematics will necessarily lead to us producing good solutions to industrial or social problems. In fact, some of our ways of viewing and approaching problems will hold us back when working outside academia.

This talk is part 6 of the seminar series Ethics in Mathematics hosted by the Cambridge University Ethics in Mathematics Society over Michaelmas. The event will consist of an interactive lecture followed by a discussion session.

This talk is part of the C.U. Ethics in Mathematics Society (CUEiMS) series.

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