Rowlee Lecture: Bhargav Bhatt
The p-adic numbers: past and present
Date:
Time:
4:00 pm –
4:50 pm
Location:
Avery Hall
Room: 115
Target Audiences:
For each prime number p, there is a number system — the p-adic number system — rather analogous to the standard (real) number system. This system was discovered in the late 1800s and has played a vital role in many areas of mathematics. The past …
