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Colloquium: Barry Simon (Caltech) - "More Tales of our Forefathers" | Einstein Institute of Mathematics

Colloquium: Barry Simon (Caltech) - "More Tales of our Forefathers"

Date: 
Thu, 28/06/201814:30-15:30
Location: 
Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
This is not a mathematics talk but it is a talk for mathematicians. Too often, we think of historical mathematicians as only names assigned to theorems. With vignettes and anecdotes, I'll convince you they were also human beings and that, as the Chinese say, "May you live in interesting times" really is a curse. Among the mathematicians with vignettes are Riemann, Newton, Poincare, von Neumann, Kato, Loewner, Krein and Noether. This talk is in two parts. The second part will be given from 4:00 to 5:00 (not 5:30) in the Basic Notions seminar. Since the talks are individual vignettes, the two parts are quasi-independnet.