Department of Mathematics

Schedule of Events - updated 1/28/00


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.

Monday, January 31, 4:00 - Departmental Meeting

  • Welcome
  • Search progress
  • Academic honesty
    • OM 214

    Wednesday, February 2, 12:00 - MEG Meeting

    OM 306

    Thursday, February 3, 4:00 - Seminar in Mathematics

    Speaker: Duane Broline
    Title: A Worksheet on Exact Arithmetic on
    Algebraic Real Numbers 2
    OM 304

    Friday, February 4, 4:00 - Colloquium

    Speaker: Patrick Coulton
    Title: A Particle Interpretation of the Wave
    Equation for Strings Using Maple
    OM 214

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