Topics in Ergodic Theory: Introduction to Ergodic Theory

Subject associations
MAT 587
Term
Spring 2026
Instructors
Elon B. Lindenstrauss
Registrar description

The course is an introductory course to ergodic theory with an emphasis on entropy theory. In ergodic theory, the relevant structure is that of a measure space, and we will mostly focus on the case of probability measure spaces. These have a very rich theory on their own and have had some remarkable applications that seem to have nothing to do with ergodic theory: for instance Margulis Normal Subgroup Theorem, Furstenberg's proof of Szemeredi's Theorem, etc.