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Speaker: Jordan Schettler
Title: Infinite Products for Fundamental and Mysterious Constants
Via Zoom at 7:30 pm February 4, 2025
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We will discuss a new family of infinite products which ties together many important mathematical constants like e, pi, gamma (Euler’s constant), A (Glaisher’s constant), and others. We evaluate these products with combinations of special values of the Riemann zeta function, which itself arises naturally in the study of prime numbers. Like the primes themselves, these constants are central figures in mathematics, yet still keep many secrets. Similar to functions or geometric objects, such irrational and suspected irrational numbers can have their own incredibly beautiful symmetries and relations. We will give many examples!
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