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15. 3. 2018 Brno Observatory and Planetarium www.hvezdarna.cz/program Our dear guest is the vice-dean for the mathematics section, associate professor Mirko Rokyta from the Department of Mathematical Analysis at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, who, with his approach to popularizing science, proves that mathematics can be brought to the attention of the general public in an engaging way. Mathematics deserves it without any debate :-) Is mathematics the language of nature? And who, besides mathematicians, speaks this language? What is more important in mathematics, reasoning or formulas? Are formulas the final result of mathematical reasoning? Or are they something that, on the contrary, influences or even controls our reasoning? Why are some formulas more famous than others and what is the history that accompanies the most famous ones? What is more important when solving a specific mathematical problem: intuition or formal mathematical reasoning? How do mathematics and numbers differ from each other? And what kind of reasoning that is not based on any formula can be described as mathematical? This lecture is also dedicated to Pi Day, which is celebrated every year on March 14th (coincidentally, only the day before the lecture itself). And also to Mr. Stephen Hawking, who died on Pi Day, and on the day Albert Einstein was born 139 years ago (March 14th, 1879)... If you are fascinated by mathematics, we recommend that you purchase these books: Fermat's Last Theorem, The Language of Mathematics, Zero - the Biography of a Dangerous Idea and many more...