From Hilbert's problems to the future

Speaker(s):   Professor Robin Wilson

Date/Time:  27/02/2008, 6pm

Venue:  Barnard's Inn Hall

In 1900 the German mathematician David Hilbert presented the mathematical community with 23 unsolved problems.  What were they, and how successful were attempts to solve them?  100 years later the mathematical world was presented with seven 'millennium problems'.  What are they, and where is maths heading in the future?