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SUMMARY:Ancient Problems Today - Prof. Béla Bollobás (Cambridge and Memp
 his)
DTSTART:20140120T193000Z
DTEND:20140120T203000Z
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CONTACT:Mary Fortune
DESCRIPTION:Whenever one thinks of problems that have occupied the attenti
 on of mathematicians for centuries\, number theoretic problems spring to m
 ind: Fermat’s Last Theorem\, Goldbach’s Conjecture\, and the Twin Prim
 es Conjecture. But\, as it happens\, there are some problems of geometry w
 hich\, in various incarnations\, have been around for two millennia. In th
 e talk I shall present a number of results about such problems\, starting 
 with results obtained in antiquity and the Middle Ages\, continuing with t
 heorems of Cauchy and Cayley\, and ending with some recent results and uns
 olved problems. The talk will be accessible to freshmen\, but will hold ch
 allenges for research students as well. 
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences\, Wilberforce Road\, Cambr
 idge
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