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Vaughn Climenhaga

University of Houston



The bigness of things



April 10, 2013
4:05 pm    PGH 646



Abstract
 

An important part of describing something is to quantify how "big" it is. But we need to use different notions of "bigness" depending on the object being described and the purpose we have in mind. The need to understand how these notions of "bigness" are related, and which is most suitable in a particular case, leads to ideas in dimension theory, information theory, entropy theory, and other areas, which are all fundamentally connected.

Pizza will be served.


Fractal dimension AMY1gene
Fractal dimension from Wikipedia The AMY1 gene from Wikipedia




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