Maths Talk Week (03/10/11)
Posted: 03 October 2011
As part of Maths Week 2011, the UCD School of Mathematical Sciences
is hosting a public lecture. All are welcome!
Date: Thursday 20th October 2011
Time: 7pm
Location: Lecture Theatre R, Newman Building, Belfield Campus, UCD
Price: Free but pre-booking essential. Contact Andrew.Parnell@ucd.ie to book a place
Audience: General public, and especially 5th and 6th year students
Speaker: Dr Robert Osburn (UCD)
"Ramanujan: his life, the last letter and beyond"
The Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan left the mathematical world with many fascinating and unproven assertions that would challenge the finest researchers through the 20th century. Indeed, work on Ramanujan's mathematics continues today as many of his deepest and most tantalizing writings were only unearthed in 1976 and have yet to be fully explained. In this lecture, we discuss his intriguing life, his famous last letter in 1920 to Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy and how his visionary work influences the modern scientific community.
