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Using Thermodynamics to Understand Number Theory by Prof. Thomas Garrity, Friday, February 7

Fri, February 7th, 2020
1:00 pm
- 1:45 pm

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Using Thermodynamics to Understand Number Theory by Prof. Thomas Garrity, Friday, February 7, 1 – 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105, Mathematics Faculty Seminar

Abstract:  Using ideas from thermodynamics, we will try to understand the structure of the real numbers.  This will be an exposition of work of Knauf, Fiala, Kleban, Prellberg and others, and earlier work of the speaker, plus some new variations and questions.

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