Mathematical Physics and Harmonic Analysis Seminar

Date: April 16, 2018

Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Location: BLOC 117

Speaker: Barry Simon , Caltech

Title: A colloquium talk: Tales of our Forefathers

Abstract: 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.