The annual Friedrich Hirzebruch Lecture is a series of lectures started in 2007 on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Friedrich Hirzebruch. It is jointly organized by the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics. The lectures address a general audience and aim at illustrating the relation between mathematics and art, society and other fields.
Feburary 24, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Lecture by Maryna Viazovska
Title: TBA
Location: Universitätsclub Bonn, Konviktstraße 9, Bonn
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- 2024, November 4, Lecture by Lisa Sauermann, "The card game SET and three-term arithmetic progressions"
- 2023, November 9, Lecture by Bernd Sturmfels, "The Quadratic Formula Revisited"
- 2023, May 15, Lecture by Rahul Pandharipande, "Moduli in Mathematics"
- 2019, November 8, Lecture by Sergey Fomin, "Pentagramma Mirificum"
- 2018, October 31, Lecture by Tadashi Tokieda, "A world from a sheet of paper"
- 2017, November 13, Lecture by Werner Ballmann, "Descartes, Euler, Gauss: From surfaces to integers"
- 2016, November 2, Lecture by Günter M. Ziegler, "Cannons at Sparrows"
- 2015, October 13, Lecture by Arthur Jaffe, "Mathematical Beauty and Truth in Physics"
- 2014, October 29, Lecture by Gerhard Huisken, "Geometry, Analysis, and Gravitation"
- 2013, October 21, Lecture by John Heilbron, "The extra-scientific in scientific creativity: Galileo's mechanics and Bohr's quantum atom"
- 2012, October 22, Lecture by Marcus du Sautoy, "The Secret Mathematicians"
- 2011, October 24, Lecture by Wendelin Werner, "What is a random geometry?"
- 2010, October 19, Lecture by Hendrik Willem Lenstra, "Escher and the Droste effect"
- 2009, December 9, Lecture by Yuri I. Manin, "Languages of mathematics and mathematics of languages"
- 2008, October 22, Lectures by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, "Von den metaphysischen Mucken der Mathematik - einige Aperçus", and Don Bernard Zagier, "Die zwei Gesichter der Mathematik"
- 2007, October 17, Lecture by Sir Michael Atiyah, "Beauty and Truth in Mathematics"
See here for the abstracts.