Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: 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 of giving a talk:(1) Know your audience!(2) Blackboard or slides?(3) Delivery of the talk (4) How to start and how to finish (5) How to deal with questions If, for any reason, you are actually trying to give a good math talk, you may attempt to apply the same advice in reverse.So let us begin. . . .
DOI: 10.1090/noti3123
Author: Evgeny Shinder
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4407953464