學術報告

報告人：汪揚 教授（香港科技大學）

報告人簡介：汪揚，美國哈佛大學博士，香港科技大學教授。曾任美國密歇根州立大學數學系主任，現任香港科技大學數學系主任。主要研究領域包括小波分析，tiling，分形幾何，數字信号處理等，在Invent. Math., Duke J. Math., Geom. and Func. Anal.等國際主要數學刊物上發表論文一百餘篇，目前擔任J. of Fourier Analysis and Appl.等雜志的副主編。

報告題目：

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.

報告時間：2016年3月30日（星期三） 下午15:00-16:00

報告地點：科技樓南樓702