Seminar series
Date
Wed, 28 Feb 2018
Time
17:00 -
18:00
Location
L1
Speaker
Robin Wilson - the Open University
Organisation
The Open University
Euler’s equation, the ‘most beautiful equation in mathematics’, startlingly connects the five most important constants in the subject: 1, 0, π, e and i. Central to both mathematics and physics, it has also featured in a criminal court case and on a postage stamp, and has appeared twice in The Simpsons. So what is this equation – and why is it pioneering?
Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford.
28 February 2018, 5pm-6pm, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
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