{"id":3212,"date":"2023-09-12T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T03:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colleges.claremont.edu\/ccms\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=3212"},"modified":"2023-09-14T08:31:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:31:18","slug":"history-and-philosophy-of-mathematics-seminar-amir-alexander-ucla","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/colleges.claremont.edu\/ccms\/event\/history-and-philosophy-of-mathematics-seminar-amir-alexander-ucla\/","title":{"rendered":"History and Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar: Amir Alexander (UCLA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ogsb=\"white\" data-ogsc=\"black\"><span data-ogsc=\"\">&#8220;The Sceptical Mathematician: How John\u00a0Wallis\u00a0Saved Mathematics for the Royal Society.&#8221;<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ogsb=\"white\" data-ogsc=\"black\"><span data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ogsb=\"white\" data-ogsc=\"black\"><span data-ogsc=\"\">Abstract:<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ogsb=\"white\" data-ogsc=\"black\"><span data-ogsc=\"\">The members of the \u201cInvisible College\u201d and the early Royal Society championed an experimental approach to the study of nature as the proper path to the advancement of knowledge and the preservation of civic peace. Mathematics, while admired, was also viewed with suspicion, as potentially dogmatic and coercive. John\u00a0Wallis, the leading mathematician in the group, set out to reconcile his field with the ideals of the early Royal Society by developing a radical new approach. Whereas traditional mathematics prided itself on irrefutable deductive proofs,\u00a0Wallis\u2019 approach relied on material intuition, inductive reasoning, and truth-claims founded on consensus, not coercion. 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