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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Department Colloquium

Tamas Szamuely

UPenn and The Renyi Institute of Mathematics (Hungarian Academy of Science)

Galois Theory: Past and Present

Abstract:

In 2011 we shall celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Evariste Galois. On this occasion I shall explain what Galois himself discovered in the theory of algebraic equations and how his ideas are still alive in present-day research.

Host: Cristian Popescu

December 2, 2010

3:00 PM

AP&M 7321

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