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| | Institute for Advanced Study: Press Releases: ENRICO BOMBIERI TO SPEAK ON THE MATHEMATICAL INFINITY |
 | | PRINCETON, N.J., January 8, 2007 – Enrico Bombieri, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, will present the lecture “The Mathematical Infinity” on Wednesday, January 31, at 4:30 p.m. |
 | | Professor Bombieri will discuss the many different ways the concept of infinity has been treated during the ages, from rejecting it as an irrational absurdity to accepting it as the ultimate, inaccessible, perfection. |
 | | He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1974 for his work on the large sieve and its application to the distribution of prime numbers, in algebraic geometry, in complex analysis and in partial differential equations. |
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