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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Food For Thought Seminar

Oisin Parkinson-Coombs

UCSD

How come hairless apes can do mathematics?

Abstract:

It is not obvious why natural selection would've selected for animals that can compute integrals, yet we exist. In this talk we'll look at some explanations from cognitive science, examples from the wild, and perhaps a look at the future of how maths could be done.

December 4, 2018

12:00 PM

AP&M 7321

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