Amir Alexander Lectures in the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s “Distinctive Voices” series

Amir Alexander gave a public lecture in the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s “Distinctive Voices” series, entitled “How Mathematics Shapes our World, and our Values”: http://www.nasonline.org/programs/distinctive-voices/VIDEO: How Mathematics Shapes Our World, and Our ValuesAmir Alexander, University of California, Los Angeles, will discuss how mathematics has been imprinted on the landscapes of the modern world. Along the way it has shaped not only our esthetics, but our values, our institutions, and even our politics.