Do Mathematicians Need Computers?

Mathematics and computation are often considered synonymous by the general public, as demonstrated, for example, by the expression “doing the math.” This equivalence is something to which most professional mathematicians would strongly object.

In this Presidential Lecture, Martin Hairer will draw on his personal research to explore some of the ways in which computations and computers have, in fact, been impacting questions in pure mathematics, leading to the discovery of new mathematical objects.