Seminar series
Date
Tue, 19 Feb 2019
Time
14:30 -
15:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Lloyd N. Trefethen
Organisation
Oxford
We begin by reviewing numerical methods for problems in one variable and find that univariate polynomials are the starting point for most of them. A similar review in several variables, however, reveals that multivariate polynomials are not so important. Why? On the other hand in pure mathematics, the field of algebraic geometry is precisely the study of multivariate polynomials. Why?