Event Date
2001-10-10
Event Time
12:10 pm ~ 01:00 pm
Event Location
Student Lounge
Abstract: Many people believe that mathematics consists of two disjoint halves: the continuous part such as stuff we learned from a calculus class and the discrete part such as counting learned from our childhood. This talk discusses the connection between these two. In particular, we will talk about the Mobius inversion in number theory, its history and how to use it to recover the foundamental theorem of calculus, Newton-Leibnitz formula.