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When algebra meets geometry
Mon 11 February 2019
Department of Chemistry
A Lecture by Professor Caucher Birkar, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge.
The third talk in a series of lectures organised by the Cambridge Philosophical Society in the Lent Term 2019.
Abstract as follows: This talk is a gentle introduction to connections between algebra and geometry to non-mathematicians. Algebra and geometry are related in numerous ways but we will mainly focus on relations prevalent in the field of algebraic geometry, a field which overlaps with many parts of mathematics and also mathematical physics. The main distinguishing feature of algebraic geometry is that nearly everything is constructed using polynomial equations.
Cost: Free
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