For more information about this meeting, contact Mary Anne Raymond.
| Title: | The Lost Notebook of Ramanujan |
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| Seminar: | Slow Pitch Seminar |
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| Speaker: | George Andrews, Penn State |
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| Abstract: |
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| In 1976 quite by accident, I stumbled across a collection of about 100 sheets of mathematics in Ramanujan's handwriting; they were stored in a box in the Trinity College Library in Cambridge. I titled this collection "Ramanujan's Lost Notebook" to distinguish it from the famous notebooks that he had prepared earlier in his life. On and off for the past 32 years, I have studied these wild and confusing pages. Some of the weirder results have yielded entirely new lines of research. I will try to provide a gentle account of where these efforts have led. I hope to include some discussion of recent efforts to present Ramanujan's life in film, theatre, and opera. |
Room Reservation Information
| Room Number: | MB106 |
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| Date: | 11 / 04 / 2008 |
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| Time: | 05:00pm - 06:00pm |
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