Prof. Bill Reinhardt public lecture
1004 Shelby Hall 250 Hackberry Lane, TuscaloosaProf. Bill Reinhardt, University of Washington, will present a public lecture entitled, "A Tour of Real and Imaginary Universes: Stephen Hawking meets Jorge Luis Borges." This lecture is geared towards a general audience. Undergraduate students are particularly encouraged to attend. Abstract: Scientific and mathematical images appear in “serious” literature, as in, for example, in the works of Borges and Thomas Mann. Scientists writing for a general audience have a great challenge in presenting quantitative mathematical ideas in verbal (non mathematical and [...]