Joel David Hamkins: Podcast Interviews

Joel David Hamkins, PhD

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Mathematician, Philosopher

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2 Interviews

Joel David Hamkins's Interviews

Sean Carroll & Joel David Hamkins • 15 Jul 2024 • EN

Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity

The philosophy of mathematics would be so much easier if it weren't for infinity. The concept seems natural, but taking it seriously opens the door to counterintuitive results. As mathematician and philosopher Joel David Hamkins says in this conversation, when we say that the natural numbers are "0, 1, 2, 3, and so on,

Kevin Knudson + Evelyn Lamb & Joel David Hamkins • 22 Sep 2021 • EN

Episode 70 - Joel David Hamkins

Mathematician and philosopher Joel David Hamkins likes games (whatever those are) and his favorite theorem is that winning strategies exist. This requires defining "games", "strategies", and all kinds of other stuff. Also chess.