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Continues the cycle of conferences 'Historical Aspects of Mathematics' of 2019 with Professor José María Almira Picazo under the title 'David Hilbert: the formation of genius (1888-1900)'.

The event is organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and the PiCuadrado Group in collaboration with the Scientific Culture Unit of the University of Murcia (UMU).

This second conference will take place on Thursday, March 7 at 12 noon in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Mathematics.

The expert will tell the first important contributions that led Hilbert from anonymity to fame, from 1888 to 1900. "From all these contributions we will present some brush strokes with which we hope to draw a sketch of the mathematician who was Hilbert in 1900, just with the change century, "says Almira Picazo.

Hilbert was recognized as one of the most promising mathematicians of his time when in 1888 he solved the problem of Gordan's invariants, a question that was at that time apparently stagnant.

In his solution, he introduced the key tools that would later facilitate the establishment of what we know today as Algebraic Geometry.

Specifically, he proved the Base Theorem and the Zero Theorem (also called Nullstellensatz).

After solving this problem, he wrote, on behalf of the recently created German Mathematical Society, a report on the state of the art in the algebraic theory of numbers in which many demonstrations were completely re-invented by him and that the monograph was considered for a long time principal that every researcher in the area had to master.

Finally, in 1899 he wrote a book on the foundations of Geometry in which he gave definitive expression to the axioms of Euclid's geometry and deepened substantially in the study of other non-Euclidean geometries, including the so-called non-Archimedean Geometries and Not Desarguesian, and in 1900 presented at the second international congress of mathematicians in Paris his famous conference on the future problems of mathematics, which set a list of 23 open problems around which revolved, to a large extent, research Mathematics of the XX Century

Source: Universidad de Murcia