John Milnor delivers Owens lecture

The eminent mathematician John Milnor gave the 18th Annual Owens Lecture on April 1, 2009. His talk was titled The Geometry of Growth and Form and was a commentary on some geometric aspects of D'Arcy Thompson's 1917 classic On Growth and Form. The talk was well attended and well received, provoking some interesting ideas to pursue.

Milnor was awarded a Fields Medal in 1962 at the International Congress of Mathematicians. He has received many other awards and honors including election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1963, the National Medal of Science in 1967, and the Wolf Prize in 1989.

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