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Tuesday, September 17, 2002
| SUMS is taking a trip to the theatre!! |
Professor Johnson has been wonderful enough to get the GEVA Theater to give students a discount price on tickets to the play "Proof" if you come with the SUMS group to see it.
The play "Proof" was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the
2001 Tony Award for Best Play. It is about a brilliant (but unstable)
mathematician and his daughter. To read more see
http://www.gevatheatre.org/show2.htm
The trip is planned for Thursday, October 17, and the show starts at 8pm.
There is also a question and answer session with the actors which starts
at 7pm. Students can buy discounted tickets for $10. (What a deal, reg
price is 21.50!!)
To reserve your ticket to Proof, come to the first SUMS talk (see the next item!) September 25
at 7:45pm and bring $10. The tickets will be reserved on a first come,
first serve basis, and reservations will be given first to those students
attending the talk. If there are still tickets available after the
talk, reservations can be made by contacting professor Inga Johnson. You can do this either by email (inga@math.rochester.edu) or by phone (5-4424 from on campus) or in person (her office is 908 Hylan).
Posted by Michael P. Knapp on 9/17/02; 10:15:24 AM
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| SUMS Talk September 25 |
Come attend the first SUMS talk of the new school year!
Professor Michael Knapp
University of Rochester
Title: SUMS of squares, cubes and other powers -- an introduction to
Waring's problem.
Abstract:
`Waring's problem' is a name given to problems which involve
representing integers as the sum of perfect powers of other integers. In
1770, the mathematician Edward Waring wrote in his book Meditationes
Algebraicae that every integer is either a perfect cube or a sum of up to
9 perfect cubes. He also stated that every integer is either a perfect
fourth power or a sum of up to 19 perfect fourth powers, "and so forth".
Was Waring right? Can every integer even be represented as a sum of
perfect cubes at all? Even if Waring was right, where do the numbers 9
and 19 come from? And what does "and so forth" mean?
In my talk, I will discuss these questions and others related to
Waring's problem.
Date: Wednesday, September 25
Place: Hylan 901 a.k.a. the Math Lounge
Time: 8:00 PM
As with all SUMS talks, there will be FREE PIZZA available at 7:45.
Posted by Michael P. Knapp on 9/17/02; 8:20:36 AM
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