Mathematics in the Age of the Turing machine
    Speaker: 
  
  
  
      Thomas Hales, University of Pittsburgh  
Date and Time: 
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Abstract: 
Next year we celebrate the centennial of Alan Turing's birth. This will be a talk for a general audience about some of the ways that computers shape mathematical research. I will give examples of "computer proofs" that make computation part of the proof and "formal proofs" that use computers to check the logical reasoning behind proofs. I will also discuss the issue of the reliability of computers for mathematical research.

