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Title: From square roots to modern algebraic geometry
Speaker: Dylan Wilson
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We'll take a historically motivated jaunt through some fun techniques and concepts in classical algebraic geometry. It starts around the time Newton wrote a snarky letter to Leibniz, and ends with Grothendieck's reimagining of Galois theory and some famous unsolved problems. There will be lots examples.