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William Adams Florida State University |
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ntersection theory's goal is to "count" the number of ways geometric objects intersect each other. This can be applied to enumerative geometry questions (such as "How many conics go through 4 points and are tangent to a given line?"), or more geometric enterprises (calculating the Euler characteristic of a space).
In this talk I will give a brief introduction to the ideas of the subject, with a few examples (the intersection ring of projective n-space, the answer to the above conics question, and perhaps another reason why the Euler characteristic of the sphere is 2).
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Friday, 12 December 2003 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 117 |
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2003 Colloquium Schedule Mathematical Sciences | The University of Montana |
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