Math Special Lecture
Barry Cipra
Event Details
Date
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Time
5 p.m.
Location
1240 Computer Sciences
Description
The Bricklayer's Challenge and Other Simple But Unsolved Problems
A famous (albeit partly aprocryphal) story has Gauss as a schoolboy speedily adding the numbers 1 to 100. When the speaker pondered how he might have approached the same assignment, he stumbled into an unsolved problem that might have tested Gauss himself. We will look at what little progress has been made toward solving the “Bricklayer’s Challenge,”
A famous (albeit partly aprocryphal) story has Gauss as a schoolboy speedily adding the numbers 1 to 100. When the speaker pondered how he might have approached the same assignment, he stumbled into an unsolved problem that might have tested Gauss himself. We will look at what little progress has been made toward solving the “Bricklayer’s Challenge,”
Cost
Free