In this portrait from the Collège de France CourTs series, he presents the research and teaching activities of this new chair.
Published on 6 January 2021
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Opening lecture by Prof. Timothy Gowers
Timothy Gowers, Professor of Combinatorics, will give his opening lecture on January 21, 2021, at 6 pm. This event will take place behind closed doors at the Collège de France, and will therefore not be open to the public, but will be broadcast live on our website.
A somewhat paradoxical field, Combinatorics is at once simple and complex, poor and rich, easy and difficult, pure and applied. Today, combinatorics occupies an almost central position in mathematics, not least because of its many interactions with other fields of research: algebra and number theory, probability, topology and algebraic geometry.
Timothy Gowers' lectures at the Collège de France will take a broad approach to Combinatorics, with an emphasis on problem solving. In addition to tools, which will be the subject of the first-year lecture, more specific topics will include discrete Fourier analysis, links between combinatorics and computer science, the theory of quasi-random structures, and the practice and philosophy of mathematics.
