Experiments in Mathematics: How the Computer Is Changing Everything
Professor Jill Pipher
Brown University
I’ll describe some classical and important contributions of the computer to mathematics, from cryptography to the four-color theorem. Then I’ll give a short tour of some modern, and surprising, interactions between mathematics and the computer. Accessible to a math-interested audience of undergraduates.
Jill Pipher is the Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor of Mathematics at Brown University. Her primary area of research is harmonic analysis and its applications to elliptic differential equations. She also has research interests in cryptography and is a coauthor of An Introduction to Cryptography published by Springer. She is currently the director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics at Brown.
