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SUMMARY:Squaring the circle: the challenge of public engagement with the m
 odern history of mathematics - Sarah Hart (Birkbeck\, University of London
 )
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DESCRIPTION:The increasingly specialised nature of mathematics means that 
 even academic mathematicians are unlikely to be able to follow the details
  of research papers outside of their own small area. In this talk\, we&rsq
 uo\;ll look at the implications for the broader societal conversation with
  mathematics. For example\, mathematical allusions abound in classic liter
 ature\, from The Canterbury Tales to Middlemarch. Is it becoming impossibl
 e for literature to engage with current mathematical ideas in the way it o
 nce did? And more broadly\, in the field of public communication\, how sho
 uld mathematicians and historians go about telling the story of modern mat
 hematics when the public perception is often that there is no common groun
 d between &ldquo\;mathematics&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;culture&rdquo\;? As a ma
 thematician\, writer and lecturer\, I will offer my perspective on the cha
 llenges and how I try to address them in my work.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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