摘要：Noam Chomsky has suggested reasoning via genetics with his “poverty of stimulus” for children learning a language. We follow a different course starting from the mathematics of the visual cortex to the geometry of data.

报告人简介：Stephen Smale： Fields Medalist (1966) Laureate of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2006/7) National Medal of Science laureate (1996) Bio: Please use information from http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~cccn/smale.htm