Math Table/Open Neighborhood Seminar: Elliptic Curves and a Problem 95% of People Cannot Solve

OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD

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September 16, 2020 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
via Zoom Video Conferencing
Speaker:

Richard Xu - Harvard Undergraduate

We consider the problem of finding 3 positive integers (a,b,c) such that a/(b+c)+b/(c+a)+c/(a+b)=4. We will examine how the problem became a viral post on Facebook, solve the problem using elliptic curves, and examine some modern developments when the number 4 is replaced by N.

Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96759150216