Event Details
- Dates: 29 January 2026 5:30 pm - 29 January 2026 6:30 pm
- Venue: Seminar Room 1.33 & 1.37, Hanna Neumann Building (#145)
- Speaker: Dr Ian Le
- Website: https://events.humanitix.com/comprehending-large-numbers
What is the largest number you can think of? By the end of this lecture, you’ll be able to think of numbers far larger than any you’ve thought of before. We will take a journey through mathematics and encounter some of the largest numbers mathematicians have contemplated. At first, you might not think there’s much substantive mathematics behind enormous numbers. But the problem of how to precisely write down a very large number raises deep questions. We will enter the realm of metamathematics–recursion, computability, complexity–and discover that the question of largeness offers us a way to probe the limits of mathematical understanding.
ANU invite you to attend this public lecture given by Senior Lecturer Ian Le (Australian National University).
When: 29 January 2026
Time: 5.30pm – 6.30pm AEDT (light refreshments served afterwards)
Where: Seminar rooms 1.33 & 1.37, Mathematical Sciences Institute
ANU College of Science, Hanna Neumann Building #145,
Science Road, The Australian National University – View campus map
The public lecture will be streamed on Zoom and recorded.
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