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The new cycle of conferences 'Historical Aspects of Mathematics' of 2019 is opened, organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and the PiCuadrado Group in collaboration with the Scientific Culture Unit of the University of Murcia (UMU).
The first paper is given by the renowned scientific disseminator Santi García Cremades with 'Mathematics and Music, an eternal love'.
In particular, it will illustrate how the construction of music itself is pure mathematical proportionality.
"From the rhythm, the harmony to the melody itself, from classical music to reggaeton, music is full of Mathematics." Mathematics is also full of music, and we are going to show it, that it does not remain mere conjecture. Our rational brains do not prevent us from seeing the irrational depths of this eternal love between the exact and the artistic, "explains Cremades.
The event will take place this Thursday, February 14 at 12 noon in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Mathematics.
The aim of this IX edition is to illustrate the other side of mathematics, through anecdotes and curiosities, so that attendees can appreciate the interrelation of science with historical and cultural events.
Santi García Cremades is a mathematician in time compact and scientific popularizer with absurd + logical humor.
Author of the book A Perfect Number (Oberon, 2017), directs and presents the first national radio program on Mathematics "Raíz de 5" on Radio 5 RNE.
He is also the creator of the Youtube Root Pi channel (with more than 35 thousand subscribers).
In his informative journey García Cremades has participated in television programs such as Órbita Laika, La Aventura del Saber (La 2) or the Protoon project of El Mundo;
On the radio through Kítaro, life is the science of Regional Wave or Las Mañanas de RNE.
Since 2013, he has worked at Big Van Ciencia, a project to turn the scientific world into a show, a task he combines with his role as Associate Professor at the Miguel Hernández University (UMH).
The formation of genius
The second of the conferences of the cycle, Thursday, March 7, will be taught by José María Almira Picazo under the title 'David Hilbert: the formation of genius (1888-1900)'.
The expert will relate the first important contributions that led Hilbert from anonymity to fame, which took place in the period from 1888 to 1900.
"Hilbert was recognized as one of the most promising mathematicians of his time when in 1888 he solved the problem of Gordan's invariants, a question that was at that time apparently stagnant," Almira emphasizes.
In his solution, he introduced the key tools that would later facilitate the establishment of what we know today as Algebraic Geometry.
Specifically, he proved the Base Theorem and the Zero Theorem (also called Nullstellensatz).
Almira holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and is a Full Professor at the University of Computer Engineering and Technology at the UMU.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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