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Mathematician Gareth Jones on compact Riemann surfaces, algebraic numbers and what is the absolute Galois group.
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'In middle of the 19th century Riemann introduced what we now call Riemann surfaces. These are surfaces like the sphere or the torus or surfaces of higher genus in which locally you have complex coordinates. This allows you to imagine, locally at least, that you are in the complex plane so you can do calculus, you can differentiate, you can integrate and so on. '
Gareth Jones, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Southampton
Group Theory: serious-science.org/group-theory-9978
Undecidable Problems: serious-science.org/undecidable-problems-9772
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Mathematician Gareth Jones on compact Riemann surfaces, algebraic numbers and what is the absolute Galois group.
Read the full text on our website: serious-science.org/dessins-denfants-10245
'In middle of the 19th century Riemann introduced what we now call Riemann surfaces. These are surfaces like the sphere or the torus or surfaces of higher genus in which locally you have complex coordinates. This allows you to imagine, locally at least, that you are in the complex plane so you can do calculus, you can differentiate, you can integrate and so on. '
Gareth Jones, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Southampton
Group Theory: serious-science.org/group-theory-9978
Undecidable Problems: serious-science.org/undecidable-problems-9772
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