Atiyah expounds on ‘Mind, Matter and Mathematics'

Renowned mathematician Michael Atiyah touted the practical benefits of his field during a lecture at the American University of Beirut (AUB) on Monday, arguing that it is more useful than philosophy in terms of explaining the relationship between the external world and the human mind.

Atiyah made the remarks during a talk titled "Mind, Matter, and Mathematics" at the invitation of AUB's Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS).

Atiyah said that mathematics offers a more in-depth view of the relationship between the external world and the human mind than philosophy since it builds on its findings of the ex ternal world.

Photo by Mohammed Zaatari "Mathematics is extracted from the physical world but re fined by the human mind and then employed in the physical world in ways that are useful to the physical world … Mathematics lies in the human brain,"

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