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April 5, 2023 4:30 pmI will connect the following questions and answers. 1. 42 = (12602123297335631)^3 + (80435758145817515)^3 + (-80538738812075974)^3. 2. https://people.math.harvard.edu/~alpoge/fun/fruit%20for%20thought.jpeg , aka: Are there positive integers x, y, z such that: x / (y...
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March 22, 2023 4:30 pmIs democracy legitimate? It may come as a surprise that mathematicians have contributed to answering this question for a very (very) long time. In this talk, we will explore social...
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March 1, 2023 4:30 pmOne of the first deep things we learned in elementary school is the act of taking negatives of numbers. I'll explain the geometry that underlies this activity, which leads to...
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February 15, 2023 4:30 pmIn 1902, Painleve introduced a collection of 6 differential equations yielding all second order equations with no movable singularities. It turns out that algebraic solutions to Painleve's sixth equation correspond...
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February 1, 2023 4:30 pmThe Central Limit Theorem is an example of the ubiquitous yet still surprising phenomena in probability that many random inputs often combine to give an output insensitive to the input...
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November 30, 2022 4:30 pmBraids on a given number of strands n can be concatenated and thereby form a group Bn. The latter possesses two different incarnations: it can be presented on a simple...
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November 9, 2022 4:30 pmTitle: TBA Abstract: TBA
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October 26, 2022 4:30 pmElliptic curves are ubiquitous in number theory, algebraic geometry, complex analysis, cryptography, physics, and beyond. They were present in Diophantus' Arithmetica (3rd century AD) and, nowadays, they are more relevant...
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October 12, 2022 4:30 pmIn 2016, Ellenberg and Gijswijt made a breakthrough on the famous cap-set problem, which asks about the maximum size of a subset of (F_3)^n not containing a three-term arithmetic progression....
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September 28, 2022 4:30 pmMoments of a function give concrete information about the shape of the associated graph and have been thoroughly studied in a wide variety of fields. In this talk, we will...
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