学术报告

报告人：汪扬 教授（香港科技大学）

报告人简介：汪扬，美国哈佛大学博士，香港科技大学教授。曾任美国密歇根州立大学数学系主任，现任香港科技大学数学系主任。主要研究领域包括小波分析，tiling，分形几何，数字信号处理等，在Invent. Math., Duke J. Math., Geom. and Func. Anal.等国际主要数学刊物上发表论文一百余篇，目前担任J. of Fourier Analysis and Appl.等杂志的副主编。

报告题目：

Can Mathematics Solve Mysteries in Literature?

摘要：There have been no shortages of controversies in literature, from old questions such as whether Cao Xueqin wrote all 120 chapters of "Dreams of Red Chamber", widely known as the greatest work of Chinese literature, to new questions such as whether Obama actually wrote his autobiography "Dreams From My Father". For mathematicians, it is interesting to ask whether mathematics can be used to settle these controversies. In this talk, I will give an overview on how mathematics can be applied to analyze the "style" of an author and the related field of study called "stylometry". I will show that mathematics can be used to almost definitively settle many such controversies.

报告时间：2016年3月30日（星期三） 下午15:00-16:00

报告地点：科技楼南楼702