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Rademacher Lectures

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 - 3:30pm

Bjorn Poonen

MIT

Location

University of Pennsylvania

A6 DRL

Tea will be served at 3:00pm in 4E17 DRL.

Undecidable problems have arisen in nearly every major branch of mathematics.  This lecture will present a sampling of these and will discuss a few problems whose undecidability status is not yet known, including one about chess.

Also, more details on these topics are contained in the following survey articles written by Bjorn Poonen:

http://math.mit.edu/~poonen/papers/h10_notices.pdf
http://math.mit.edu/~poonen/papers/sampler.pdf

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