The BMS Friday colloquia commenced on Friday 22 October 2010 with a talk given by Professor Don Zagier. Also the "What Is...?" Seminars organized by and for students started.
- October 22, 2010: Don Zagier (MPI Bonn): Mathematics in Another World -
A report on Japanese mathematics in the Edo period - November 26, 2010: Jean-Benoit Bost (U Paris-Sud Orsay):
The work of Jacobi on elliptic functions: an introduction for today's mathematician - December 3, 2010: Joel Spencer (NYU):
Der Zauberer von Budapest - Paul Erdös and the Rise of Discrete Mathematics - December 10, 2010: Rafael Nunez (UCSD)
What then is Mathematics? A view from Cognitive Science - January 14, 2011: Jens Funke (U Durham): Hecke and Langlands - A little bit of number theory
- January 28, 2011: Bernd Wegner (Zentralblatt für Mathematik): Zentralblatt MATH -
the gateway to mathematics literature - February 11, 2011: David P. Williamson (Cornell U) Humboldt Lecture
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