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The very happiness and mathematical thinking are two enormous topics with vast bibliography.
Very serious people have been dealing with them since antiquity.
An academic lecture on both topics combined with their relation is impossible to fit in here.
So please treat my speech as a few remarks, probably disputable.
I hope we will discuss them later.
Academic standards of completeness, accuracy and full bibliography will not be kept.
I might not even manage to stay serious.
They dressed up this man and added a wax head because the real one here wasn’t really adequate.
This figure called Auto-icon was created.
He was said to be brought in for the meetings of the University College Council.
The chairman would then announce that Jeremy Bentham is present but not voting.
Weekend is far way on Monday so we are unhappy already from the start.
One of the features of mathematical thinking is looking for universal tools.
Such schemes are abstract and may relate to many different situations and things.
The integral is a very good example.
These irregular waves represent some sets – finite or infinite.
When do two sets have the same number of elements?
If they are finite, we can count the elements and know that they have the same number.
But we don't even have to count to say it.
We can match them. We can do the same for infinite sets.
If it’s possible to match points of one set with points of the other set,
So that each is coupled with exactly one element of the other set,
Then the sets are said to have the same number of points.
It was used to define the shape of the stadium.
They wanted to achieve good visibility from all seats
The designers honoured the integral this way.
If we would like our children or grandchildren to think well, not even mathematically,
Not to get confused by the politicians, then we shouldn’t torture them with arithmetic too early.
We should rather tell them fairy tales and listen to stories.
I think it's a great initiative.
A perfect mix of science and fun.
Actually today's topic can be directly linked to that idea.
The subject was too general, but there was something about happiness and something about maths.
Their relation wasn't really shown.
I’m personally a huge fan of Science Cafés.
I've been coming here irregularly for the past few years.
Since the time when it was held in Traffic Café.
I've learnt a lot thanks to this initiative.
Topics which I might have skipped at school or they weren't included in the curriculum at all.
It is interesting for people with different backgrounds.
They can meet here and listen to specialists in a given field.
Who are talking in an easy, accessible way.
I think that the meeting should not be heavy, blunt or very scientific.
Science Café is definitely fulfilling that need.
Additionally, it’s a nice combination of science, coffee, juice, some snack and a discussion.
This discussion today was very intense resulting from audience’s excitement about the speech.
I have studied both subjects in depth.
I'm both into maths and ethics or eudaimonology.
I wanted to see what could be said here.
For a person participating for the first time it can be quite an interesting experience.
I really like this concept.
Very different people with different backgrounds can come here.
This light approach proposed by professor Rzezuchowski is acceptable for everybody.
These meetings inspired me to explore the subject on my own.
Either by reading or watching documentaries.
I definitely developed my conversational and narrative abilities in interpersonal contacts.
If maths is discussed in a Science Café, the less equations given, the better.
The atmosphere here is very nice.
I'm very happy I've participated.
There were some less balanced comments against, but I don't mind that.
Everybody has the right to say what they want.
The audience, I guess, assessed the discussion correctly.
I’m very happy and I think that there should be as many initiatives like that as possible.