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Latest podcast – Mathematics: Art or Science?

Last Tuesday some Big Ideas regulars met at The Crosse Keys to discuss whether maths is an art or a science. It’s an intentionally awkward question (science can be surprisingly tricky to define well, art often goes out of its way to defy defintion) but it makes for an interesting way of drawing how maths relates to everything else.

The conversation, which I moderated, is featured in our latest podcast: http://bigi.org.uk/podcast/bigi20080212.mp3: thanks to Toby Moth, Phil O’Donnell and Rich Cochrane for making it an informed and stimulating chat down the pub. You can subscribe to our podcasts using this feed.

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Sessions generally start with a question. Someone who has some relevant expertise gives a very brief, informal talk. After that a discussion develops in a free and unstructured manner. It's not a lecture, and it's not a debate; it's a pub argument, but unlike any you've had before.

In case you were worried, Big Ideas isn't affiliated with any political, religious or other organisation, and we don't have any particular agenda.

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