Departmental Colloquia Summer 2011

Colloquium talks will take place some Tuesdays at 4.00 pm in Room 505 on the 5th floor of the mathematics department. See how to find us for further details. There will be tea afterwards in room 606.

If you require any more information on these talks, please contact either Dr Nadia Sidorova (e-mail: n.sidorova AT ucl.ac.uk or tel: 020-7679-7864) or Professor Yaroslav Kurylev (e-mail: y.kurylev AT ucl.ac.uk or tel: 020-7679-7896).

17 May 2011 

Jeremy Gray - UCL/Open University

The work of Henri Poincaré

Abstract:

Henri Poincaré is remembered for many things in mathematics and theoretical physics, among them automorphic functions and non-Euclidean geometry; the discovery of chaotic motions in celestial mechanics; the Lorentz group; algebraic topology and the Poincaré conjecture.

In this talk I shall invite you to choose a slice through his work which I shall use as a springboard to discuss his work in mathematics, physics, and philosophy.