of
Princeton University
Who will show us
"Some Very Interesting Sequences"
At Santa Clara University
in the Recital Hall of the Music and Dance Building
on Wednesday March 16, 2005
at 7:30 pm
One of the the interesting sequences is 1,11,21,1211,111221,312211,13112221,1113213211,... for which you're invited first, to guess the very simple rule, and then, to wonder just how it's connected with an algebraic equation of degree 71. A much more serious one has first five terms 1,4,75,28,5, and although I don't yet know its 31st term, I do know that the 49,487,365,422nd one is 1024, even though I can't be sure that all its terms are defined.
John H. Conway is the John von Neumann Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He has made substantial contributions to several branches of mathematics: set theory, number theory, finite groups, quadratic forms, game theory, knot theory, combinatorics, and coding theory. He is the author of several books on mathematics, and the inventor of many mathematical games, in particular, the game of Life. In addition, Professor Conway invented surreal numbers while analyzing the game of Go. He is a dynamic speaker, and the audience can expect to see mathematics different from any they have seen before.
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