Lectures by Richard Borcherds

[martinbn]

Not sure where the right place would be to put this, but I just noticed that Borcherds has videos of lectures he has given. I had seen the ones on schemes, but he has now a good selection of topics. They are not only algebraic, so may be the general forum would have been better, but anyway here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/@richarde.borcherds7998

 

[jedishrfu]

I found his biography on Wikipedia:

Richard Ewen Borcherds (/ˈbɔːrtʃərdz/; born 29 November 1959)[2] is a British[4] mathematician currently working in quantum field theory. He is known for his work in lattices, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras,[5][6] for which he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998. He is well known for his proof of monstrous moonshine using ideas from string theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Borcherds

It's pretty interesting that he proved the Monstrous Moonshine theorem using string theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_moonshine

The relationship between the montrous moonshine group and modular forms.



The other interesting thing he was a doctoral student of John Horton Conway.

 

[Hornbein]

I found his biography on Wikipedia:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Borcherds

It's pretty interesting that he proved the Monstrous Moonshine theorem using string theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_moonshine

The relationship between the montrous moonshine group and modular forms.



The other interesting thing he was a doctoral student of John Horton Conway.

Damn that's amazing. I had no idea.

He says that everyone hates statistics so they change the name to things like "data science."

 

[mad mathematician]

Damn that's amazing. I had no idea.

He says that everyone hates statistics so they change the name to things like "data science."

Sometimes in order to find a job you have to "bite the bullet" so to say...

 

[jedishrfu]

Yep thats wuite popular in comp sci business products.

Years ago IBM had a database product called ISAM vs GE’s ISP. ISAM was indexed sequential access method vs indexed sequential processing.