Departmental Colloquium
Alex Wilkie
University of Manchester
An introduction to o-minimality with applications
Abstract: I shall introduce the theory of o-minimal structures as a
possible rigorous framework for Grothendieck's idea of "tame topology".
I shall present some of the main finiteness theorems for certain
("definable") subsets of Euclidean space and conclude with an application
concerning the counting of rational points on transcendental analytic
sets.
Friday September 24, 2010 at 3:00 PM in SEO 636