The 2023 Howard Rowlee Lecture: Stuart White, University of Oxford
A Brief History of Classification
4:00 pm –
4:50 pm
Avery Hall Room: 115 Avery Hall
Contact:
David Pitts, dpitts2@unl.edu
Sorting objects comes naturally to humans from books in the library,
to elements in the periodic table. But how do mathematicians decide
whether things are the same? In this talk I’ll illustrate examples of
classifications’ from different areas of mathematics: what are we
looking for in a satisfactory classification?
to elements in the periodic table. But how do mathematicians decide
whether things are the same? In this talk I’ll illustrate examples of
classifications’ from different areas of mathematics: what are we
looking for in a satisfactory classification?
Additional Public Info:
This is the 2023 Howard Rowlee Lecture. There will be a reception at 3:00pm on March 24, 2023 in 348 Avery Hall.
Professor White’s lecture is supported by the Howard E. Rowlee Jr. Fund, the UNL Research Council, the UNL Department of Mathematics and a grant from the National Science Foundation.
https://math.unl.edu/events/rowlee
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