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Mathematics Without Apologies
mathematics without apologies mathematics without apologies portrait of a problematic vocation michael harris princeton university press princeton and oxford Copyright © 2015 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW press.princeton.edu Cover illustration by Dimitri Karetnikov All Rights Reserved ISBN 978-0-691-15423-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2014953422 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Times New Roman and Archer display Printed on acid-free paper ∞ Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Béatrice, who didn’t want to be thanked contents preface ix acknowledgments xix Part I 1 chapter 1. Introduction: The Veil 3 chapter 2. How I Acquired Charisma 7 chapter α. How to Explain Number Theory at a Dinner Party 41 (First Session: Primes) 43 chapter 3. Not Merely Good, True, and Beautiful 54 chapter 4. Megaloprepeia 80 chapter β. How to Explain Number Theory at a Dinner Party 109 (Second Session: Equations) 109 bonus chapter 5. An Automorphic Reading of Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day (Interrupted by Elliptical Reflections on Mason & Dixon) 128 Part II 139 chapter 6. Further Investigations of the Mind-Body Problem 141 chapter β.5. How to Explain Number Theory at a Dinner Party 175 (Impromptu Minisession: Transcendental Numbers) 175 chapter 7. The Habit of Clinging to an Ultimate Ground 181 chapter 8. The Science of Tricks 222 Part III 257 chapter γ. -
150Th Anniversary Celebrations
LONDONLONDON MATHEMATICALMATHEMATICAL SOCIETYSOCIETY NEWSLETTER No. 438 July 2014 Society Meetings and Events 2014 The London Mathematical Society is pleased to announce its Wednesday 9 July LMS Popular Lectures London page 17 150th Anniversary Wednesday 23 July LMS Spitalfields Day INI, Cambridge Celebrations 1 page 13 (1865 – 2015) Tuesday 19 August LMS Meeting and Reception We invite you to join us in celebrating this historic occasion. ICM 2014, Seoul page 15 Themes for the Anniversary Saturday 150 Years of the LMS and Mathematics 6 September Mathematics and the Mathematics as Part of our Culture First World War New ways of Communicating Mathematics Meeting, London page 27 There will be an extended and varied programme of events throughout Wednesday 2015 in celebration of the vitality of mathematics in the UK, looking 24 September back over 150 years of achievements and looking forward to exciting LMS Popular Lectures opportunities in mathematics for future generations. Birmingham page 17 Friday 14 November For information and an up-to-date calendar, please visit LMS AGM www.lms.ac.uk/2015 London To receive regular updates about events and lectures occurring during NEWSLETTER the 150th Anniversary Year, please sign up to the emailing list located ONLINE: at the above address. newsletter.lms.ac.uk LMS NEWSLETTER http://newsletter.lms.ac.uk [email protected] No. 438 July 2014 Contents LMS PRIZES 2014 No. 438 July 2014 The winners of the LMS Prizes for 2014 were announced at the Society meeting on 4 July 2014. The Society extends its congratulations to these winners, and its thanks to all the nominators, referees and members of the Prizes Committee for their contributions to the Committee’s work this year. -
Sarah Zerbes
Sarah Zerbes Contact Department of Mathematics Phone: 0044 (0)207 679 2834 Information University College London email: [email protected] Gower Street homepage: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/∼ucahsze/ London WC1E 6BT General Nationality German Information Date of Birth 2nd of August 1978 Marital Status Married Research Algebraic number theory, L-functions, automorphic forms, p-adic Hodge theory, Iwasawa theory Interests Academic Professor, ETH Z¨urich from 2022 Appointments Professor, University College London 2016 - 2021 Reader, University College London 2014 - 2016 Lecturer, University College London 2012 - 2014 Lecturer, University of Exeter 2008 - 2012 EPSRC postdoctoral fellow 2008 - 2011 Chapman Fellow, Imperial College, London 2006 - 2008 Hodge Fellow, IHES, Paris 2005 - 2006 Marie Curie Fellow, Institut Henri Poincar´e,Paris March 2004 - June 2004 University University of Cambridge, UK Education PhD in Pure Mathematics 2002 - 2005 • Dissertation Title: \Selmer groups over non-commutative p-adic Lie extensions" • Advisor: Professor John Coates Mathematical Tripos Part III (with distinction) 2001 - 2002 BA Hons. in Mathematics (first class) 1998 - 2001 Grants EPSRC New Horizon Grant (joint with D. Loeffler) from January 2021 Total value: ∼ £200,000 Title: The Birch{Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture: beyond dimension 1 ERC Consolidator Grant since July 2015 Total value: ∼ €1,075,000 Title: Euler systems and the Birch{Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 2014 - 2016 Total value: ∼ £43,000 EPSRC First Grant 2012 - -
December 2010
THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER No. 398 December 2010 Society LMS COUNCIL DIARY to have a special Strategy Day in February. Among the issues to Meetings 8 October 2010 be discussed are the recommen- and Events At its meeting on 8 October, dations from the Membership Council noted with regret the Working Group led by Garth 2010 resignation from Council with Dales. In particular, do we want Monday 6 December immediate effect of Simon to increase the membership of Society Meeting, Chandler-Wilde, due to pres- the LMS, and if so, in what way? ICMS, Edinburgh sure of work in his new role as How do we make membership [page 3] Head of the School of Mathe- of the LMS more attractive while matical and Physical Sciences at staying within the charity law 2011 Reading. Thus I am writing this which states that the overall cost Council Diary in his stead. of members’ benefits must not Friday 25 February Among the substantial mat- exceed the total subscriptions Mary Cartwright ters before Council was the paid? Since any large change in Lecture, Oxford job of considering and approv- membership may alter the char- [page 20] ing the annual accounts and acter of the Society irrevocably, Friday 6 May trustees’ report. This is perhaps it is important to think carefully Women in Mathematics our single most important le- before making changes. Day, London gal duty as trustees, and Brian Ken Brown led a discussion on [page 2] Stewart, the Treasurer, ably the three research policy docu- led us through the mass of ments (see article on page 2), Tuesday 17 May figures, clearly pointing out to which had been substantially LMS–Gresham Lecture, us where to find the real fig- updated since they were dis- London [page 2] ures in amongst the accounting cussed by Council in July.