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CATEGORIES:Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
SUMMARY:On disappearing material practices: from folding a
 nd modeling in the 20th century to AI ‘produced’ d
 iagrams in the 21st century - Michael Friedman (Un
 iversity of Bonn)
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/230404
DESCRIPTION:At the beginning of the 20th century\, geometry ba
 sed on paper folding flourished. Indeed\, it was d
 iscovered during the first decades of this century
  that such geometry was more powerful than the geo
 metry based on compass and straightedge in terms o
 f the constructions that could be made. Moreover\,
  at the end of the 19th century and resp. during t
 he second half of the 20th century\, there was a g
 rowing recognition of the epistemic power of 3-dim
 ensional material models resp. of 2-dimensional di
 agrams. However\, the end of the 20th century saw 
 a fundamental change in the status of these materi
 al practices. With the introduction of computer pr
 ograms for folding\, new mathematical and algorith
 mic phenomena were discovered that could not have 
 been found using purely manual methods. Moreover\,
  in recent years\, the AI-based program AlphaGeome
 try has managed to find unexpected solutions to pr
 oblems in plane geometry\, solutions that were onl
 y retrospectively accompanied by diagrams. In my t
 alk\, I would like to explore different stages in 
 the disappearance of such material practices\, as 
 well as the new role concerning the status of mate
 riality in the 21st century mathematical research.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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