Indra’s Pearls: A Mathematical Adventure | 7th Feb
The annual Charlotte Scott Lecture in Mathematics, entitled “Indra’s Pearls: A Mathematical Adventure”, will take place on Wednesday 7th February 2018 in the Issac Newton Lecture Theatre on the University of Lincoln’s Brayford Pool campus.
The public lecture will be delivered by Professor Caroline Series FRS, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and President of the London Mathematical Society. Professor Series is only the second female president in the London Mathematical Society’s history.
Professor Series FRS is a pure mathematician known for her work on symbolic coding of geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces and for novel contributions to the study of three-dimensional hyperbolic manifolds via their fractal limit sets. In 1986 she was a founding member of European Women in Mathematics, and in 2015 became the first vice-chair of the International Mathematical Union’s Committee for Women in Mathematics.
The lecture is based on the book of the same title and will offer insight into the authors’ computer explorations of some simple but repeated operations on complex numbers, whose interactions produce delicate and beautiful fractuals. Through images, the lecture will explain the geometry and algorithms which generate the images, behind which lie a wealth of mathematical meanings and questions for further research
The lecture forms part of the 160 year celebrations of the 160th Charlotte Scott, the famous mathematician born in Lincoln, who was also influential in developing mathematical education of women and their participation in mathematical research.
For more information or to book your place please visit: https://lncn.eu/ersz8