What can an algebraic geometer do for Euclidean geometry ?

by Prof. Jinhyun Park (KAIST, Korea)

Thursday 3 Feb 2011, 16:00 → 17:00 Asia/Kolkata

AG-69 (Colaba Campus)

I will begin with the 3rd problem of Hilbert on the scissors congruence groups of Euclidean spaces. Then as we go a bit further, I will explain how this is related to some number theory problems, and some deep algebro-geometric problems in motives, as well as some remote fields such as cyclic homology.