Modul:   MAT075  Zurich Graduate Colloquium

What is… an isoperimetric inequality?

Vortrag von Tommaso Goldhirsch

Datum: 07.11.23  Zeit: 16.15 - 18.30  Raum:

The isoperimetric problem is to find the figure in the plane having the greatest area among all those with the same perimeter. This problem and its apparently obvious solution, the circle, date back to at least Ancient Greece but for a rigorous proof we have to wait until the 19th century. We will overview the history of the isoperimetric inequality and sample some of its evolutions in recent times.''''