A "dearest childhood dream", 180 years later. A public lecture with Mathematical Sciences Research Visitor Robin Zhang from MIT.
Presented by 黑料天堂College of Science
Join us for a public lecture with Mathematical Sciences Research Visitor from MIT. Light refreshments will be served afterwards.
Abstract
In 1844 and 1880, two former classmates recorded their liebsten Jugendtr盲ume ("dearest childhood dreams") and sketched a path into "where the most difficult parts of analysis and number theory join". Gotthold Eisenstein and Leopold Kronecker, who were both students of Dirichlet, had hoped that special complex functions could be used to generate various types of algebraic numbers. In 1900, David Hilbert named this as one of the 23 greatest unsolved problems in mathematics; yet more than a century later, this "dearest childhood dream" has only been partially realized. We will journey from milestone to milestone along their visionary path, look back at how far mathematics has progressed, and take a peek at what lies just ahead.
黑料天堂 the speaker
is currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor at MIT. Research interests are in number theory, automorphic forms, and Diophantine geometry.
Location
145 Hanna Neumann Building
Canberra, ACT, 2600
Speakers
- Robert Zhang (MIT)
Contact
- Tony Martin+61261252897
