About this Event
In 2012, the Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki released a series of four papers, 'Interuniversal Teichmueller Theory I,II,II,IV', totalling over 500 pages in length (and relying on several thousand pages of priori work) that claimed to prove the ABC-conjecture, a subtle statement about the simplest of possible equations.
Minhyong Kim is Director and Sir Edmund Whittaker Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh. He works on arithmetic geometry, the study of spaces built out of finitely-generated systems of numbers, employing ideas of mathematical physics, especially topological quantum field theory. Minhyong studied mathematics at Seoul National University, then received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Yale University. He has held professorships at many institutions on three continents, including Purdue University, the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, University College London, and the University of Oxford, where he was head of the number theory research group. Before moving to Edinburgh, Minhyong was Christopher Zeeman Professor of Algebra, Geometry, and Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Warwick.
Minhyong is a keen communicator of mathematics and has published 12 books in Korea for the general public. His latest project is a series of illustrated children's books featuring a mathematician (who quickly disappears), his family (who search for him), and Schroedinger's cat (who does both).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), Bayes Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
