Speaker: Yao-Rui Yeo
Abstract:
This is a continuation of my Pizza Seminar Talk from April 7, 2017, and also the first of a three part talk in Pizza Seminar happening this November. The questions I will discuss comes from quadratic forms theory. For instance, can one give a good but biased overview of the history of quadratic forms, or coherently explain the recent work of Manjul Bhargava on composition laws and the Bhargava cube, focusing on core ideas and examples? The prerequisites for this talk are just honors level algebra (but the proofs – which I will not really go into – involve very deep mathematics).