Professor Ross Geoghegan (SUNY Binghamton)
will speak on
Associativity and Richard Thompson's group
Time: 4:00PM
Date: Mon 2nd October 2006
Location: Mathematical Sciences Seminar Room
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Further informationAbstract: A remarkable finitely generated group (discovered forty years ago by Richard Thompson and an object of much study in the meantime) governs the notion of "associativity" all over mathematics. I will explain.
(This talk is part of the Algebra and Number Theory series.)
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