Laureate Discussion: Why Do So Many People Hate Mathematics? | September 28

Why Do So Many People Hate Mathematics?
Moderator: Vicki Hanson
Vicki Hanson is a Fellow of ACM, the British Computer Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is a past President of ACM and currently serves as ACM’s Chief Executive Officer.
Since her post-doctoral research at the Salk Institute, Vicki has focused on making technology accessible. She founded IBM’s Accessibility Research Group, was Professor of Inclusive Technologies at the University of Dundee in Scotland, and a Distinguished Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in the US, Her work has been recognized by an IBM Corporate Award, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the ACM SIGACCESS Award for Contributions to Computing and Accessibility, and election to both the ACM CHI Academy and the National Academy of Engineering.
Hugo Duminil-Copin
Fields Medal - 2022
For solving longstanding problems in the probabilistic theory of phase transitions in statistical physics, especially in dimensions three and four.
Yael Tauman Kalai
ACM Prize in Computing - 2022
For breakthroughs on verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography.
László Lovász
Abel Prize - 2021
Together with Avi Wigderson for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics.
Robert Endre Tarjan
Nevanlinna Prize - 1982
For devising near-optimal algorithms for many graph-theoretic and geometric problems for the development and exploitation of data structures supporting efficient algorithms, and for contributing several algorithmic analyses of striking profundity and elegance.
ACM A.M. Turing Award - 1986
With John E. Hopcroft, for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.
The 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 24-29, 2023. #HLF23
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
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God bless you, Yael Tauman Kalai, in Jesus' Name Amen ✝️

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Why is there a fear of maths and not of other subjects? At last, someone asks that question. Unfortunately the reasons the lady gives are not the reasons why I hate it.
M. Duminil-Copin then brings out a tired old generalisation, saying people in France are proud of being bad at maths. I've heard that one before, and not only about people in France. People are proud of being bad at maths? How dare he say that? Some may be but they are only a small minority.
People who say that are always people who are good at the subject. How can they understand? How dare they say they can see in our heads? Yes, I'm French and abysmally bad at maths, I'm not proud of it, but I'm not ashamed of it either. Tell me: why should I be?
Now I'm hearing that same lady speaking of the "beauty of maths". There I must object: it's subjective. Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. I find maths horrendous: why is her opinion on this more valid than mine? She is entitled to her point of view, and I'm entitled to mine.