Joint Mathematics Colloquium/VisComX Lecture

Michele Emmer

(Sapienza Universita di Roma)

"The idea of space: from flatland to virtual architecture"


Date: Tue, October 6, 2009
Time: 18:00
Place: Conference Room, Campus Center

Abstract: The discovery (or invention) of non-Euclidean geometry and of the higher dimensions (from the fourth on), the new idea of space to summarize, is one of the most interesting examples of the profound repercussions that mathematical ideas have on humanistic culture, art and architecture.