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Galois Seminar

Friday, November 4, 2011 - 3:15pm

Gisbert Wüstholz

ETH Zurich and IAS

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

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An old problem of Leibniz asks about the possibility of squaring ovals. The problem goes back to a dispute with Newton about the correctness of Lemma XXVIII in the Principia. In the talk we shall give first a historical account of the problem and then explain how the Analytic Subgroup Theorem is applied to give a solution of the problem adapted to modern times.