Speaker:
Sanjay Kumar Singh
School of Mathematics
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Homi Bhabha Road
Mumbai 40000
Time:
Friday, 24 July 2009 (All day)
Venue:
- A-212 (STCS Seminar Room)
The classification theorem of closed surfaces states that any closed surface is homomorphic to some member of one of these three families:
1. the sphere
2. the connected sum of n tori
3. the connected sum of k real projective planes