Opening Speaker
Peter Borwein
Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.
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Opening Speaker Peter Borwein Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C. |
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Email: |
pborwein@cecm.sfu.ca |
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Homepage: |
http://wayback.cecm.sfu.ca/~pborwein |
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Paper: |
Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and
Approximations to Pi or How to compute One
Billion Digits of Pi |
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Talk: |
An Introduction to Organics Mathematics |
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Abstract: |
Mathematics is more important now than it has ever been. More
mathematics is done both inside universities and outside, in industry,
than ever before. Admittedly not all of it is called mathematics---it
might be called robotics, or financial analysis, or operations control,
or engineering, or whatever---but when we look closely there is no
doubt that we are living in the greatest Golden Age for mathematics, at
least so far.
Mathematics has fundamentally affected technology, notably in
computers. It is now clear that the reverse is also true. Technology,
falling into 4 major categories, has already changed mathematics
dramatically, and the pace of change is accelerating.
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