Seminar series
Date
Fri, 21 Oct 2005
16:30
16:30
Location
L2
Speaker
Pierre Cartier
Organisation
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
The recent developments of Mathematical Physics have brought very new ideas
about the nature of space . I will argue that we have to mix the methods of
noncommutative geometry of Alain Connes with the prophetic views of Grothendieck
about the so-called motives and their motivic Galois group .
The dream of a "cosmic Galois group" may soon become an established reality .
The dream of a "cosmic Galois group" may soon become an established reality .