AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics: Terence Tao is UCLA’s Collins Professor of Mathematics, and the first UCLA professor to win the prestigious Fields Medal. Less than a month after winning the Fields Medal, Tao was named a MacArthur Fellow. The following month, Tao was named one of “The Brilliant 10” scientists by Popular Science magazine, which called him “Math’s Great Uniter” and said that “to Tao, the traditional boundaries between different mathematical fields don’t seem to exist.” Tao’s AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics is titled “The Cosmic Distance Ladder.”
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) sponsors a series of public lectures in mathematics entitled The AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics. The lectures began in 2005, to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Einstein’s annus mirabilis. They are given annually at one of the Society’s eight sectional meetings. The year 1905 marked the publication by Albert Einstein in Germany of three fundamental papers that changed the course of twentieth-century physics. Einstein later moved to the United States, where he became a founding member of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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Hosted by the UCLA Department of Mathematics, The Philip C. Curtis Jr. Center for Mathematics and Teaching and the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences. Additional support provided by the UCLA Chancellor’s Office.
Avec Alain Aspect, Jean Audouze, Michel Cassé, Alain Connes, Thibault Damour, Antoine Guggenheim, Etienne Klein, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Cédric Villani.
Les Nuits de l’Incertitude, série de rencontres ouvertes à tous, néophytes, curieux ou initiés, sont conçues pour prolonger l’expérience du « dépaysement soudain » proposée par l’exposition Mathématiques. L’incertitude, questionnée par Stéphane Paoli, se niche au cœur de ces soirées où les mathématiques sont abordées obliquement par la musique, la finance ou encore la cosmologie.
Explication et traduction de quelques vers latins à partir du vers 62 du livre premier du “De rerum natura” de Lucrèce (Titus Lucretius Carus) par Gilles Louise
Humana ante oculos foede cum vita jaceret
in terris, oppressa gravi sub religione
quae caput a caeli regionibus ostendebat,
horribili super aspectu mortalibus instans,
primum Graius homo mortalis tollere contra
est oculos ausus, primusque obsistere contra ;
quem neque fama deum nec fulmina nec minitanti
murmure compressit caelum, sed eo magis acrem
inritat animi virtutem, ecfringere ut arta
naturae primus portarum claustra cupiret.
Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit, et extra
processit longe flammantia moenia mundi,
atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque,
unde refert nobis victor quid possit oriri,
quid nequeat, finita potestas denique cuique
quanam sit ratione atque alte terminus haerens.
Quare religio pedibus subjecta vicissim
opteritur, nos exaequat victoria caelo.
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