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Friday, June 25, 2004 - 4:00pm

Ioan James

Oxford U

Location

Villanova University

Mendel Science Center 103

If intersted, contact Jim Stasheff for full details, directions and dinner plans.

An introduction to the literature on the psychology of mathematicians, and other scientists. For example, highly intelligent people with mild forms of autism often love mathematics and tend to excel at it. This leads into a discussion of the nature of mathematical creativity and what has been learned about it since Poincare gave his famous lecture on the subject just a century ago.