At the start of the 20th century, David Hilbert asked which representations can arise by studying the monodromy of Fuchsian equations. This question was the starting point for a beautiful circle of ideas relating the topology of a complex algebraic variety X to the study of algebraic differential equations. A central result is the celebrated Riemann-Hilbert correspondence of Kashiwara and Mebkhout, which supplies a fully faithful embedding from the category of perverse sheaves on $X$ to the category of algebraic $\mathfrak{D}_X$-modules.

At the start of the 20th century, David Hilbert asked which representations can arise by studying the monodromy of Fuchsian equations. This question was the starting point for a beautiful circle of ideas relating the topology of a complex algebraic variety X to the study of algebraic differential equations. A central result is the celebrated Riemann-Hilbert correspondence of Kashiwara and Mebkhout, which supplies a fully faithful embedding from the category of perverse sheaves on $X$ to the category of algebraic $\mathfrak{D}_X$-modules.

At the start of the 20th century, David Hilbert asked which representations can arise by studying the monodromy of Fuchsian equations. This question was the starting point for a beautiful circle of ideas relating the topology of a complex algebraic variety X to the study of algebraic differential equations. A central result is the celebrated Riemann-Hilbert correspondence of Kashiwara and Mebkhout, which supplies a fully faithful embedding from the category of perverse sheaves on $X$ to the category of algebraic $\mathfrak{D}_X$-modules.