Geometry Festival Seminar
Friday, April 27, 2012, 6:00pm, 128 Physics
Carla Cederbaum (Duke University)
From Newton to Einstein: a guided tour through space and time
Abstract:- The cosmos and its laws have fascinated people since the ancient times.
Many scientists and philosophers have tried to describe and explain what
they saw in the sky. And almost all of them have used mathematics to
formulate their ideas and compute predictions for the future. Today, we
have made huge progress in understanding and predicting how planets,
stars, and galaxies behave. But still, the mysteries of our universe are
formulated and resolved in mathematical language and always with new
mathematical methods and ideas.
In this lecture, you will hear about two of the most famous physicists of
all times, Isaac Newton (1643-1727) and Albert Einstein (1879-1955), and
about their theories of the universe. You will learn about common features
and central differences in their viewpoints and in the mathematics they
used to formulate their theories. In passing, you will also encounter the
famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777-1855) and his beautiful
ideas about curvature. [video]
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