Invited Address Speaker: Jim Cobbe Affiliation: Florida State University Title: Social Class, Schooling, and Stereotypes in the Sixties: or why I am not a mathematician, although I nearly was.
Abstract. Without doubt, in my own view my greatest academic achievement was election as an Entrance Scholar in Mathematics to Trinity College, Cambridge, in December 1963. But I am not a mathematician, and stopped trying to be one by 1966. This talk will be a personal exploration of why, touching along the way on the Irish Potato Famine, England before my birth and in the 1960s, and Konfrontasi. It will probably be very boring, but it has been fascinating thinking about what to say!
Awards and Honors
Dwight B. Goodner Awards   CIGNA Scholars   Pi Mu Epsilon Induction of New Members
Reception
204-B LOV following the program.