Join us Wednesday, 3/13, at 5:30 in 1634 for a talk by Prof. Floyd Williams, entitled “Ramanujan-mathematical genius and mathematical mystic”. Abstract appears below; as usual, free pizza and soda will be provided.
Abstract: S.A.Ramanujan,an un-schooled,largely self-taught Indian
clerk,managed to emerge in his brief life span (of only 33 years )an
epochal,mystical,mathematical genius.His theorems,over 3000 in number,wìth a vast array of mysteriously beautiful,mind-boggling formulas,continue to daze and stupefy the mathematical world.In this lecture we can only attain a small snap-shot of this singular Brahmin soul,where we focus some attention on his work (with G.H.Hardy) on the partition function (which has applications to black hole physics among other things),his formulas for pi,and some exotic integrals.
clerk,managed to emerge in his brief life span (of only 33 years )an
epochal,mystical,mathematical genius.His theorems,over 3000 in number,wìth a vast array of mysteriously beautiful,mind-boggling formulas,continue to daze and stupefy the mathematical world.In this lecture we can only attain a small snap-shot of this singular Brahmin soul,where we focus some attention on his work (with G.H.Hardy) on the partition function (which has applications to black hole physics among other things),his formulas for pi,and some exotic integrals.