Jeremy Gray,
Mathematics and Statistics, Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K.:
Where did Topology come from?
In the 20th Century topology became one of the most fundamental branches of mathematics, as well as a source of popular puzzles involving Möbius bands, knots, and the like, but its roots lie in numerous elementary ideas that came up in many different places in the 19th Century. Most of these ideas were originally seen as lying on the boundary of mathematics and as interesting problems that needed no deep mathematical theory to be understood. This talk will look at some of the ups and downs on the way these ideas were brought together and made into a new and basic branch of mathematics.
tirsdag den 8. april 2008, kl.
17.15
| |
|