- Series
- Algebra Seminar
- Time
- Monday, February 8, 2010 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 171
- Speaker
- Skip Garibaldi – Emory University
- Organizer
- Matt Baker
The "Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" has been the subject of
articles in The New Yorker (7/21/08), Le Monde (11/20/07), the
Financial Times (4/25/09), The Telegraph (11/10/09), an invited talk at
TED (2/08), etc. Despite positive descriptions of the theory in the
popular press, it doesn't work. I'll explain a little of the theory,
the mathematical reasons why it doesn't work, and a theorem (joint work
with Jacques Distler) that says that no similar theory can work. This
talk should be accessible to all graduate students in mathematics.