"The Non-Euclidean World, History, Geometry, and Analysis"
Sigurdur Helgason
Tue Jan 16, 01-02:00pm, 2-143
Single session event
In this lecture we give a short account of the dramatic and colorful history of Non-Euclidean Geometry. This involves centuries of efforts by top-notch mathematicians to prove Euclid's parallel axiom. The resulting Hyperbolic Geometry now enters significantly in many fields of mathematics, Differential Geometry, Lie Groups, Integral Geometry, Analysis and Number Theory. In this lecture we indicate some of these developments.
Contact: Sigurdur Helgason, 2-182, x3-3668, helgason@mit.edu
Sponsor: Mathematics
Latest update: 22-Dec-2006
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