Welcome to our audience on c span to the 2023 annual James Madison lecture. This year to bedelivered as dr burnett said by the distinguished historian hw brands, a lecture with the uh antiquarian but eerily relevantle, founding partisans hamilton madison jefferson, adams and the brawling birth of american politics. By the way, heres a, an advanced copy of the book um which will be in bookstores soon, i believe, which promises to be a provocative read. Professor brands is the jack s blanton, senior chair in history at the university of texas at austin, which is his doctoral alma mater is the author of over 30 books, two of which have been finalists for the pulitzer prize. And in discussing my introduction, he, he said hed be happy with a brief biography. So im not going to recite all 30 of those titles uh to you, but heres a sampling of them. The money man. Andrew jackson, the age of gold, the First American tr the strange death of american liberalism. What america owes the world. Lone
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Good evening. Welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and a very special event. I think we are all delighted the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america helping out tonight. In particular, loaned us james tanton who i will introduce in a minute. My name is john ewing, i am president of math america. I am a mathematician. [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. Every professional mathematician those mathematicians and their subjects have a certain reputation. A worldfamous mathematician walking in the countryside one day comes upon a huge flock of sheep. Being a worldfamous mathematician goes up to the shepherd and makes a proposition. 100 against one of your sheep and i could tell you instantly how many sheep are in the flock. The shepherd, knowing there are an awful lot of sheep says okay, i will try it. The mathematician looks around and says there are 937
Good evening welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and to a very special event. I think we are all delighted that the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted that they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america which is helping out tonight and in particular they loaned us james hansen tonight whom i will introduce in a moment. My name is john ewing. Im the president of math for america and i am a mathematician [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. [laughter] every professional mathematician knows that mathematicians and their subject have a certain reputation. A world famous mathematician is walking in the countryside one day when he comes upon a huge flock of sheep and being a world famous mathematician goes up to the shepherd and makes a proposition. 100 against one of your sheep that i can tell can tell you instantly how many sheep are in the flock. The shepherd knowing that there were an awful lot