Monday, October 22, 2012
Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin
Takustr. 7
14195 Berlin
room 2005 (Hörsaal)
Lecture - 14:15
Abstract:
According to a legend told by Paul Erdős, God maintains
a book, called THE BOOK, which contains perfect
mathematical proofs.
Martin Aigner and I have, some twenty years ago, started
to collect examples, and then made some modest suggestions
of proofs that might be in THE BOOK.
In this lecture, I will try to present some more.
Colloquium - 16:00
Abstract:
We want to place n points in the plane
in such a way that they are as far as possible from degenerate
situations. This can be measured by different criteria involving
angles, distances, or areas.
There are various deterministic and randomized methods that
compete for yielding good constructions, and their analysis
leads to number-theoretic questions.