How to Give a Really Bad Math Talk
There are numerous excellent papers, notes, and blog posts on the subject of giving a good math talk, such as [H, K, G, BA].However, comprehensive advice on giving a bad math talk is much harder to come by.This paper is intended to fill that gap.Many years of both listening to and delivering quite bad math research talks and really bad undergraduate lectures made me a true expert on the subject.In this note I want to share some of the valuable advice that I accumulated with you, who may possibly have had less experience in giving bad talks than I did.My advice is centered around the following five key aspects
Authors
- Evgeny Shinder
Publication Details
- Journal
- Notices of the American Mathematical Society
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1090/noti3123
- Primary Topic
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00