Event Title
A Sampling of Shortness
Location
Hart 218
Start Time
14-5-2009 11:20 AM
End Time
14-5-2009 12:20 PM
Description
A quartet of panelists will provide viewpoints exploring the conciseness of idea, space, word, and number. Is there a short list of natural laws? Is simplicity on the list? Are there invariant scales of the universe? What is the Planck length? What is so small in mathematics that it was called the "ghost of a departed quantity"? How short is an infinitesimal? How short can a poem be? These questions will lead to a lively discussion on the vast nature of brevity.
A Sampling of Shortness
Hart 218
A quartet of panelists will provide viewpoints exploring the conciseness of idea, space, word, and number. Is there a short list of natural laws? Is simplicity on the list? Are there invariant scales of the universe? What is the Planck length? What is so small in mathematics that it was called the "ghost of a departed quantity"? How short is an infinitesimal? How short can a poem be? These questions will lead to a lively discussion on the vast nature of brevity.