Department of Mathematics

Seminar / Workshop

globo con formule matematiche

Lagrange, Grothendieck and Claude

4 November 2026, start time 15:20 - 16:10
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Lkk6ACWP2UUyVDYk8
PovoZero, Via Sommarive 14, Povo (Trento)
Seminar Room "1"
Free
Organizer: Department of Mathematics
Target audience: Students, PhD students, Research Fellows, Researchers, Postdoctoral Researcher, UniTrento faculty
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Referent: Mima Stanojkovski, Willem De Graaf
Contacts: 
Staff of the Department of Mathematics
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globo con formule matematiche
Speaker: René Schoof (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")

In 1962, Grothendieck asked whether Lagrange's theorem for finite groups also holds for group schemes. The answer was widely expected to be affirmative. In July 2026, the large language model Claude produced a counterexample. The only prerequisite for this talk is the notion of a group.