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SUMMARY:Ilka Agricola (Uni Marburg)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/BODS/16/">Wh
 at are spinors and what should they be?</a>\nby Ilka Agricola (Uni Marburg
 ) as part of Bremen Online Dynamics Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nRichard Dedekin
 d published in 1888 a paper entitled "Was sind und was sollen\ndie Zahlen?
 "\, variously translated as "What are numbers and what should\nthey be?". 
 In analogy to this classic\, I shall investigate in this talk\nwhat spinor
 s (or\, in full term\, spinor fields) are\, what distinguishes\nthem from 
 functions\, how they appear naturally in complex analysis and\ntheoretical
  physics\, and\, finally\, why they are an object of intrinsic\nmathematic
 al\ninterest. Doing so\, I will give a gentle introduction to spin geometr
 y\nand Dirac operators for the non-experts\, and I will provide an overvie
 w of\ntypical problems and interesting links to other areas.\n\nThis is a 
 joint seminar with the University of Bremen Mathematics Colloquium.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/BODS/16/
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