MATH Seminar

Title: Georges de Rham's work and life before 1945
Colloquium: N/A
Speaker: Manuel Ojanguren of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
Contact: R. Parimala, parimala@mathcs.emory.edu
Date: 2010-04-30 at 3:00PM
Venue: MSC W303
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Abstract: The talk will deal with the following aspects of de Rham's life and mathematics: \begin{enumerate} \item ``How a duel in Strasbourg changed mathematics in Lausanne" \item Studies in Lausanne \item Thesis in Paris, de Rham's theorems in 1930 \item The idea of currents \item Rotations and Reidemeister torsion \item The war years \end{enumerate}