Réunion d'hiver SMC 2013
Université d'Ottawa, 6 - 9 décembre 2013
Prix Jeffery-Williams
- ZINOVY REICHSTEIN, University of british Columbia
From Tschirnhaus transformations to essential dimension [PDF]
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I will discuss the classical problem of simplifying polynomials
in one variable by Tschirnhaus transformations and explain how
it naturally lead to the notion of essential dimension for
finite groups and beyond.
