+Mario Gutierrez Just out of curiosity, what are the necessary background courses needed to study this subject? I would like to apply to an REU like this next year and would like to study this subject, or maybe study something related to differential geometry.
+RENCIOL you should deff do an REU before applying to grad programs, that's an excellent idea. To study this particular subject you should know about manifolds, linear/multilinear algebra (be especially comfortable with tensors), and some category theory as well. It gets a lot deeper than this but at least with some of this machinery you should be able to start reading about the subject. I highly recommend reading "Frobenius Algebras & 2D TQFT's" by Joachim Kock. It is a very down down-to-earth exposition of 2D TQFT's. I warn you though, it's a VERY addictive reading :P Have fun and good luck!
Great talk bro! I'm very interested in this field!
+RENCIOL thanks so much! And I'm glad to hear you're into the subject, it's a very rich and elegant field ;)
+Mario Gutierrez
Just out of curiosity, what are the necessary background courses needed to study this subject? I would like to apply to an REU like this next year and would like to study this subject, or maybe study something related to differential geometry.
+RENCIOL you should deff do an REU before applying to grad programs, that's an excellent idea. To study this particular subject you should know about manifolds, linear/multilinear algebra (be especially comfortable with tensors), and some category theory as well. It gets a lot deeper than this but at least with some of this machinery you should be able to start reading about the subject. I highly recommend reading "Frobenius Algebras & 2D TQFT's" by Joachim Kock. It is a very down down-to-earth exposition of 2D TQFT's. I warn you though, it's a VERY addictive reading :P Have fun and good luck!
excellent talk... I subscribed your channel :)
+ricci1729 thanks so much! :)