Distinguished Lectures

The AAET Distinguished Lecture Program had launched its inaugural lecture on 12th April 2010, 3:30 pm at Nayang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore. The invited speaker was AAET Malaysian Fellow Mr Goh Peng Ooi, the executive chairman of Silverlake Axis Ltd, a publicly listed provider of integrated banking solution. The topic of his lecture was “Theory of Everything? Application of the Theory of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics”.  ( Click here to download the presentation )

  

The lecture was attended by more than 250 professors, lecturers and university students. AAET President Datuk Ir Hong Lee Pee also attended and inaugurated the Distinguished Lecture Program by a brief introduction on AAET.

AAET President Datuk Ir. Hong Lee Pee (2010-2016) inaugurated the Distingushed Lecture Program by a brief introduction on AAET

Starting from the John Nash’s 12 page Nobel Wining Paper on ‘Non Cooperative game’, Mr Goh demonstrated the challenges facing our intellectual world which is getting over partitioned, resulting in respecting the trees and forgetting the forest. Goh hopes to trigger some rethinking about ‘Theory of Everything’. 

Nash paper demonstrates how East and West ended up developing two intellectual basis which were equally right but not fully right. By using elementary TOPOS, Goh tried to make this visible to the audience, thus explaining the phenomena of rising East, and why their Economic basis and social values are different from the West. Goh also connected Nash’s paper with TOPOS, in order to show that there can be various ‘instances’ of the same forest, leading the audience into the world of Ludwig Von Mises, the founder of Austrian school of economics and the Misesians.

Goh: everyone can choose to be himself and become economically successful

Goh explained to the young audience that everyone can choose to be himself and become economically successful, not necessary having to keep playing the ‘tiring’ n person games. In this way, he also demonstrated that other than ‘man made’ rules, ‘governance’ and ‘management’ can depend on ‘natural laws’, leading to self management, which is more sustainable and profitable for not only economy, but science and mathematics.