NCKU Math colloquium


DATE2009-03-11 14:10-15:00

PLACE國家理論科學中心 204 室

SPEAKER黎景輝教授(國家理論中心及成大數學系

TITLEOn a bit of history of classfield theory

ABSTRACT In this talk I would like to introduce classfield to students by telling the history. Classfiled theory by now is a large subject and it would not be possible to give a full history and that's why I said " a bit of " history. I said to "introduce" classfiled theory I mean to explain what are some of the main theorems and how to understand them, in particular I am NOT going to give any proofs.

Within this framework I still have a large number of choices - I think I would begin with the rational numbers and then to function field over finite fields. So we shall see.

Now where do I start? May be I shall start with some Galois groups - so if you are a student you may want to remind yourself the theory of polynomials, field extensions,...