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Mathematicians often comment on the beauty of their chosen discipline. For the non-mathematicians among us, that can be hard to visualise. But in Prof Caroline Series’s field of hyperbolic geometry, ...

John McGreevy is Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a theoretical physicist with interests in quantum matter, string theory, and ...

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 133, No. 7 (Jul., 2005), pp. 2045-2050 (6 pages) We show that every metric space with bounded geometry ...

Salerno will also give a separate lecture earlier the same day as a part of the Cal Poly Humboldt Mathematics Colloquium.

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