[NTNU Number Theory Seminar] 【March 1】Jing Yu / Knots.

by 温湘婷 | 2024-02-19 15:29:22

Knots.

Time:2024-03-01 13:30 (Fri.) / Place:M310 

Prof. Jing Yu
(National Taiwan University
National Tsing Hua University
National Taiwan Normal University)

Knots are just simple closed curves in space, say R^3. This is an old topic, but lots of mathematics originated from knot theory, particularly since the middle of 20-th century. Here I would like to give a brief introduction, taking a viewpoint from an arithmetic geometer. 60 years ago, Barry Mazur wrote a note comparing knots with primes, and compact oriented 3-manifolds play roles analogous to number fields. Development of knot theory is closely related to the history of topology, and core mathematics. Gauss and his students started the very topic, and the knot invariants, particularly polynomial invariants, can be now computed from Sage package.

Speaker:  Prof. Jing Yu  

(National Taiwan University. National Tsing Hua University. National Taiwan Normal University)

Title  :   Knots.

Time  :   13:30 p.m.,  March 01, 2024

Place :   M310, Math. Dept., National Taiwan Normal University

Coordinators :   Professor Jing Yu (NTU)

                            Professor Hua-Chieh Li (NTNU)

          Professor Liang-Chung Hsia (NTNU)

Source URL: https://cantor.math.ntnu.edu.tw/index.php/en/2024/02/19/1130301speech_en/