NCTS(South)/ NCKU Math Colloquium


DATE2011-03-10ˇ@16:10-17:00

PLACER204, 2F, NCTS, NCKU

SPEAKERProfessor Guenter F. Pilzˇ]Institute of Algebra, Johannes Kepler Universität, Linzˇ^

TITLESome facts in math are hard to believe

ABSTRACT Geometry in higher dimensions offers many surprises. What is the volume of an n-dimensional sphere? Why can it grow too big sometimes? And logic offers more surprises: some self-contradictory statements wich give rise to proofs of Goedel´s Incompleteness Theorems.