Seminar series
Date
Fri, 03 Jun 2011
16:30
16:30
Location
L2
Speaker
Prof Graeme Segal
Organisation
Oxford
Graeme Segal shall describe some of Dan Quillen’s work, focusing on his amazingly productive period around 1970, when he not only invented algebraic K-theory in the form we know it today, but also opened up several other lines of research which are still in the front line of mathematical activity. The aim of the talk will be to give an idea of some of the mathematical influences which shaped him, of his mathematical perspective, and also of his style and his way of approaching mathematical problems.