Math Colloquiums - Dr. Thomas Schonbek

Euler, Riemann, and the Million Dollar Question

Tomas Schonbek
Florida Atlantic University
Mathematics Department
Whitaker 101. Friday, October 19, 2007. 12.30 p.m. to 1.30 p.m.

In celebration of the 300th anniversary of Leonard Euler's birth, Dr. Tomas Schonbek of the FAU Math Department will give a colloquium talk describing Euler's findings and the Riemann Hypothesis

The Riemann Hypothesis has become the most celebrated problem in modern mathematics. It has remained unproved for so long, and yet it seems so tantalizing vulnerable. It has perplexed the world's best mathematical minds for over a century now.

The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts (CMI) has named Riemann's hypothesis as one of the Prize problems. The Scientific Advisory Board of CMI selected this problem, focusing on important classic question that has resisted solution over the years. The Board of Directors of CMI designated a $1 million prize fund for the solution to this problem.

http://www.claymath.org/millennium/Riemann_Hypothesis/

This talk will be accessible to undergraduates.

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