Computers and Mathematics: Problems and Prospects
Professor Ronald Graham, University of California, San Diego
Abstract: There is no question that the recent advent of the modern computer has had a dramatic impact on what mathematicians do and on how they do it. However, there is increasing evidence that many apparently simple problems may in fact be forever beyond any conceivable computer attack. In this talk, I will describe a variety of mathematical problems in which computers either have had, may have or will probably never have a significant role in their solutions.
Professor Ronald Graham
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Prof Ronald Graham is a well known mathematician, computer scientist, and highly accomplished trampolinist and juggler. He is credited by the American mathematical Society with being "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years". He has done important work in scheduling theory, computational geometry, Ramsey theory, and quasi-randomness. He holds the posts of Chief Scientist at the California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology (also known as Cal-(IT)2), and Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He was born in Taft, California. In 1962, he got his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
A 1977 paper of his discussed a problem in Ramsey theory, and gave a large number as an upper bound for its solution. This number has since become famous as the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof (and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as such), and is now known as Graham's number. Graham was featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not for being not only "one of the world's foremost mathematicians", but also "a highly skilled trampolinist and juggler", and past president of the International Jugglers Association. In 2003, Graham won the American Mathematical Society's annual Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. In 1999 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. As of 2003, he has published about 300 papers, and five books including Concrete Mathematics with Donald Knuth.
Professor Chung Laung Liu
Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University
Prof C.L. Liu grew up in Macau/Hong Kong and earned his Sc.D. degree from MIT. He was on the faculty of the MIT (1962-72) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1972-98), and the President at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan (1998-2002). He received many awards for his technical contributions in real-time scheduling and computer aided design of VLSI circuits and for his excellent teaching and education. He is Honorary Chair Professor of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University and the Secretary General of Chiang Chen Industrial Foundation. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM and a member of Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
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竟然能见到Graham阿...虽然错过了霍金，但是能见Graham也不错。。。
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