School of Mathematics Colloquium
Galois Representations
by Prof. Ravi Ramakrishna (Cornell Univ., Ithaca)
Thursday, February 27, 2014
from
to
(Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( AG-69 )
at Colaba Campus ( AG-69 )
Description |
In the last 30 years representations of (infinite) Galois groups have played an increasingly important role in number theory. Indeed, arithmetic objects such as the Diophantine equation $y=x^3-x^2+1$ or $x^n+y^n=z^n$ often have attached Galois representations that `know' the solutions. This talk will survey a small slice of this theory and will be accessible to mathematicians in all disciplines. |