Sponsored by the Bhaktivedanta Institute*
Speaker: Prof. Keith Devlin, Dean of the
School of Science, St Mary's College, Moraga;
Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford
University
Abstract: Since the time of the ancient Greeks,
mathematicians have made attempts to take mathematics into the human mind and
develop a mathematics of human thought and, more recently, human language use.
In this talk, based on his recent book Goodbye Descartes: The End of Logic
and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind, mathematician, author, and
broadcaster Keith Devlin will start with a quick historical overview of past
attempts to develop a mathematics of the mind. He will follow that by taking
a look at some contemporary work in this area, and end with some speculations
as to what the future might offer.
References:
Friday, March 5, 1999
Room 300, Health Sciences West, University of California, San Francisco *
7:30 pm – 8:00 pm Social; 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Lecture
and Discussion
Registration: If you are attending for the first
time, please pre-register by calling K. P. Rajan, Ph.D. at (510) 841-7618, or
Jean Burns, Ph.D., at (510) 481-7507 (e-mail: biberkeley@bvinst.edu).
Directions: The closest parking is the UCSF public
garage at 500 Parnassus Avenue ($1.75/hr). You may be able to find some free
street parking within a few blocks of the campus. We post directions to reach
Health Sciences West building in the lobby of the Medical Sciences building
(513 Parnassus), across the street from the UCSF garage.
* The Bhaktivedanta Institute and UCSF are not affiliated. The use of meeting rooms at the University of California, San Francisco, by non-profit organizations does not imply that the University endorses this organization or the material being presented.