March 3, 2006

  • Women's History Month continues.

    Global and Local:
    One Small Step

    Audrey Terras, University of Maryland '64:

    We cannot discuss the proof here as it requires some knowledge of zeta functions of curves over finite fields.

    Charles Small, Harvard '64:

    The moral is that the zeta function exhibits a subtle
    connection between the "global" (topological, characteristic 0) nature
    of the curve and its "local" (diophantine, characteristic p for all but
    finitely many "bad" primes p)  behaviour.  The full extent of
    this connection only becomes apparent in the context of varieties more
    general than curves....

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    "Some friends of mine
     are in this band....    "

    -- David Auburn, "Proof"

    "Women and Mathematics
    is a joint program of
    the Institute for Advanced Study
    and Princeton University."

     -- School of Mathematics,  
    1 Einstein Drive,
    Princeton, New Jersey