Making math on the margins

Name: Making math on the margins
Start: 2022-02-02T16:30:00-05:00
End: 2022-02-02T17:30:00-05:00
Location: Science Center 507

When: February 2, 2022

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Noam Elkies - Harvard

One way that mathematics grows is by finding new questions to study beyond the standard topics of serious mathematical research. We give three examples, ranging from the recreational (how many digits in 6561101970383!, and how did I find this curious factorial? What’s the unusual feature of the “elementary” identity 12 + 21 + 27 + 38 + 44 + 53 = 2 + 5 + 11 + 22 + 33 + 48 + 74?) to a collaboration with faculty in the School of Public Health.