Math talks for undergraduates
This collection of six talks for specialist mathematics undergraduates introduces them to the flavour and content of contemporary mathematics, but assumes only background in calculus and linear algebra, some sophistication and a willingness to engage new ideas. Written in an informal style that reflects actual talks, the author moves efficiently through the material, providing motivation and arguments but keeping the details under control. He expects that the material can be the framework for seminars given by the students themselves. The first talk treats the distribution of primes and leads to the Bateman-Horn conjecture (l962). Then follows the Mason-Stothers Theorem for polynomials (1983-1985) and the analogous \(abc\) conjecture (1986). Next is global integration of locally integrable vector fields. A substantial talk focusses on convolution and Dirac sequences (approximate identities) and their manifestations in approximation theory, harmonic analysis, boundary value problems (Laplace and heat equations) and theta series. The last two talks, on Bruhat-Tits metric spaces and their fixed-point theorem (1972), and the structure of vector spaces of harmonic and symmetric polynomials, require slightly more background. The reader can appreciate how connections occur between different fields and the importance of structure. The author's brief foreword has some pertinent comments on current trends in education.
- On the Bateman-Horn conjecture.
- A generalization of Mason's theorem for four polynomials
- Geometry of the probability simplex and its connection to the maximum entropy method
- The Bateman-Horn conjecture: heuristic, history, and applications
- Best predictors in logarithmic distance between positive random variables
- A gaussian space of test functions
- Zionist internationalism through number theory: Edmund Landau at the opening of the Hebrew University in 1925
- Finding meaning in error terms
- The Beauty of Doing Mathematics
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3941438 (Why is no real title available?)
- Vanishing Polynomial Sums
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2108625 (Why is no real title available?)
- Prediction in Riemannian metrics derived from divergence functions
- Lateral movement in undergraduate research: case studies in number theory
- An annotated discussion of a panel presentation on improving diversity in mathematics
- On differentiable vectors for representations of infinite dimensional Lie groups
- A Derivation of the Infinitude of Primes
- The heat kernel on a finite graph in different time-scales
- Grassmannian optimization is NP-hard
- Covariant projective representations of Hilbert-Lie groups
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