Does set theory have anything to do with mathematics?
Speaker:
Matthew Foreman, University of California, Irvine
Date and Time:
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
We discuss the relationship of Set Theory with other branches of mathematics and the role it has historically played. We will give some recent examples and discuss one--the classification problem for ergodic measure preserving transformations--in some depth.
