Britton Lecture Series: Model theory and differential equations: an historical perspective

“Differential And Difference Equations Through Model Theory” with Thomas Scanlon, Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. The first talk with be “Model Theory And Differential Equations: An Historical Perspective”.

Abstract:
The theory of differentially closed fields has served both as a test case for the development of general ideas in model theory and as a bridge between logic and other parts of mathematics. With this lecture, I will describe parts of this history and will highlight some of the key applications to problems in Diophantine geometry.