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Venue
Theory Seminar,
School of Computer Science,
University of Birmingham,
23 February 2007
Abstract A common situation in mathematics and computer science is that we have a family of objects each of which is described in terms of the others. A simple example is a system of simultaneous linear equations in which each of the variables involved appears as the left-hand side of exactly one of the equations. Similarly, we might have a famly of datatypes defined in a mutually recursive way. It turns out that there is a useful general theory of such situations, connecting (among other things) to self-similarity in the world of topology. I will explain some of this theory and what it might be good for. Slides In this pdf file (2.3MB).
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