Department of Mathematics

Schedule of Events - updated 1/24/00


Monday, January 24, 7:00 - Math Energy

Speaker: Julie Higgenbotham and Debra Weiler
Title: M and M Math
University Union Grand Ballroom

Wednesday January 26, 12:00 - MEG Meeting

OM 306

Thursday, January 27, 4:00 - Seminar in Mathematics

Speaker: Duane Broline
Title: A Worksheet on Exact Arithmetic on
Algebraic Real Numbers 1
OM 304

Friday, January 28, 4:00 - Colloquium

Speaker: Charles Delman
Title: A topologist's proof of the Fundamental
Theorem of Algebra (or, yet another way that stereographic
projection can change your life).

OM 214
Abstract: The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra - that every polynomial has a root in the complex number system - may be proven from many different points of view. I would like to share the contents of a beautiful talk given by John Milnor in the '50's, which shows how the Theorem follows from the geometry of the complex plane along with some basic notions of differential topology. This talk will be understandable to anyone who knows what a complex number and a partial derivative are, and should be of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty.

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