MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2017



Modern Pure Mathematics for the Modern Applied Mathematician. A not-for-credit short course of 6 loosely-connected lectures

Homer Reid

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Do you---as an engineer---sometimes consult pure-math papers or textbooks in the hope of deriving insight into a puzzling mathematical challenge, only to be stymied by an impenetrable wall of jargon such as short exact sequences and functoriality?

Do you---as a physicist---need to know what things like cohomology and p-forms are, but can't learn from pure-math textbooks because of the dense thicket of abstract terminology and concepts lying between the title page and the interesting content?

Or do you---as an applied or numerical mathematician---simply wonder what your pure-math colleagues are doing down the corridor all day?

If so, this is the course for you!

http://homerreid.com/teaching/MoPuMMAM

Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Homer Reid, (857) 829-1667, homereid@mit.edu


Cohomology for dummies

Jan/23 Mon 02:30PM-04:00PM E25-117

Algebraic topology

Jan/25 Wed 02:30PM-04:00PM E25-117

Differential Geometry

Jan/27 Fri 02:30PM-04:00PM E25-117

Algebraic Geometry

Jan/30 Mon 02:30PM-04:00PM E25-117

Number Theory

Feb/01 Wed 02:30PM-04:00PM E25-117

Tying up Loose Ends; open-ended Q&A

Feb/03 Fri 02:30PM-04:00PM 32-144