What mathematicians learn from attending other mathematicians’ lectures

TY - JOUR

T1 - What mathematicians learn from attending other mathematicians’ lectures

AU - Weber, Keith

AU - Fukawa-Connelly, Timothy

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.

PY - 2023/1

Y1 - 2023/1

N2 - Mathematicians frequently attend their peers’ lectures to learn new mathematical content. The goal of this paper is to investigate what mathematicians learned from the lectures. Our research took place at a 2-week workshop on inner model theory, a topic of set theory, which was largely comprised of a series of lectures. We asked the six workshop organizers and seven conference attendees what could be learned from the lectures in the workshop, and from mathematics lectures in general. A key finding was that participants felt the motivation and road maps that were provided by the lecturers could facilitate the attendees’ future individual studying of the material. We conclude by discussing how our findings inform the development of theory on how individuals can learn from lectures and suggest interesting directions for future research.

AB - Mathematicians frequently attend their peers’ lectures to learn new mathematical content. The goal of this paper is to investigate what mathematicians learned from the lectures. Our research took place at a 2-week workshop on inner model theory, a topic of set theory, which was largely comprised of a series of lectures. We asked the six workshop organizers and seven conference attendees what could be learned from the lectures in the workshop, and from mathematics lectures in general. A key finding was that participants felt the motivation and road maps that were provided by the lecturers could facilitate the attendees’ future individual studying of the material. We conclude by discussing how our findings inform the development of theory on how individuals can learn from lectures and suggest interesting directions for future research.

KW - Lectures

KW - Mathematical practice

KW - Motivation

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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-022-10177-x

DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-022-10177-x

M3 - Article

SN - 0013-1954

VL - 112

SP - 123

EP - 139

JO - Educational Studies in Mathematics

JF - Educational Studies in Mathematics

IS - 1

ER -