This year marks the 30th anniversary of the London Mathematical Society (LMS) Popular Lectures, but none can have been more popular than this year’s London event. Professor Sir Timothy Gowers FRS (University of Cambridge) and Professor Sir Richard Penrose FRS (University of Oxford) presented their lectures to an audience of nearly 900 at the Institute of Education on 26th June. The audience was from a broad range of backgrounds and included academics, university students, teachers, school and college pupils, and the general public.
Gowers and Penrose are two of the UK’s finest mathematicians and their experience and knowledge provided two entertaining and stimulating lectures. Gower’s lecture was entitled Can anything be salvaged from the wreckage of Hilbert’s dream?and Penrose’s lecture was entitled On Attempting to Model the Mathematical Mind.
The Popular Lectures now move to Birmingham on Wednesday 26th September 2012. Entry to the lectures is free of charge. For more information, abstracts of the lectures and to book a ticket, visit the аĿª½±website