SEMINAR: Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Phill Schultz, 4pm Friday 27 July in Weatherburn LT
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Phill Schultz, 4pm Friday 27 July in Weatherburn LT |
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Speaker: Phill Schultz (University of Western Australia)
Title: The curious incident of the Leningrad mathematicians
Time and place: 4pm Friday 27 Jul 2018, Weatherburn LT
Abstract: The solution of a famous Sherlock Holmes mystery hinges on the fact that none of the characters noticed a dog howling in the nighttime.
Something similar occurred in Leningrad in the 1980s: two issues of the Proceedings of the Steklov Institute contained incompatible theorems about direct decompositions of finite rank torsion-free abelian groups, and no-one seems to have noticed.
I will describe the theorems and try to resolve the mystery.
Past and future seminars may be found at
http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~glasby/GroupsAndCombinatoricsSeminar/S18.html
Contact |
Stephen Glasby
<[email protected]>
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Start |
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:00
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End |
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:00
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Submitted by |
Stephen Glasby <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:18
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