Seminar/ Colloquium

Title : Mathematics and Sets.
Speaker : Prof. Nitin Nitsure , TIFR Mumbai
Date : 03/02/2017, 03:00 PM (Friday), Seminar Hall, First Floor.

Abstract: 

How did sets get into mathematics? What role do they play? What, if anything, can replace them? How did the ancients do without them? Do they really exist?

Questions such as these occur to many students of mathematics. This talk will sketch some of the answers.