Speaker Name: Aaron Luttman (aluttman at clarkson dot edu )
Speaker Afiliation: Clarkson University
Abstract: Throughout our mathematical training from elementary school through the first few years of college, we're taught mathematics as facts and ideas that were invented or discovered by people hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
This makes it easy for us to think of mathematics as being complete, as if there's nothing left to uncover or create. The reality is that we live in a wonderfully exciting time of mathematical innovation and development, and new breakthroughs are occurring almost daily. In this presentation we will look back at some of the most exciting mathematical developments of the last 20 years - from the solutions of centuries-old problems in pure mathematics like Fermat's Last Theorem and the Poincare Conjecture to mathematical transformations of applications such as medical imaging and quantum computing - and we'll look forward to the possible advances that today's students will have the opportunity to make in the next 20 years.
Target Audience: This talk is aimed at any college students with an interest in mathematics. A first course in calculus will be helpful, but no prior knowledge of the problems discussed will be assumed.
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