Picture language program

Time: June 20 (Wednesday) 15:00-16:00

Place: N109

Speaker: Zhengwei Liu (Harvard University)

Title: Picture language program

Abstract: We discuss the appearance of pictures in mathematics. We emphasize a bi-directional process between picture language and mathematical concepts: abstraction and simulation. This provides a program to understand different subjects, using virtual and real mathematical concepts simulated by pictures. 

Zhengwei Liu introduces planar algebras during his first lecture in a series at Tsinghua University.