- Series
- School of Mathematics Colloquium
- Time
- Tuesday, January 3, 2017 - 11:05am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Barry Simon – California Institute of Technology
- Organizer
- Shahaf Nitzan
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. More tales following up on the talk I gave
at GaTech in Nov., 2013. It is not assumed listeners heard that earlier
talk.