4月24日 20:30-21:30 主楼报告厅
Prof. John H. Coates,The University of Cambridge
Title: The Oldest Problem
Abstract: In my lecture, I plan to discuss the ancient congruent number problem, whose written history goes back at least a thousand years, and which today still remains the oldest unsolved major problem in number theory, and perhaps in the whole of mathematics. I hope to explain some recent progress on the problem, in which Chinese mathematicians have played an important role.
John Coates教授是英国皇家学会会员及剑桥大学Sadleirian讲座教授,世界著名数论学家。先后就读于澳大利亚国立大学、法国巴黎高师以及英国剑桥大学,上世纪六十年代在剑桥大学取得博士学位;先后在哈佛大学、斯坦福大学、巴黎十一大、巴黎高师和剑桥大学等世界著名学府任教,曾任伦敦数学会主席,巴黎高师数学系系主任等职,曾获高级怀德海奖;其研究领域是数论,特别是代数数论与算术几何,在引进 Iwasawa 理论到椭圆曲线的研究上,他和A. Wiles在内的他的学生们,做出了重要突破与贡献。