Undergraduate Seminar in Mathematics

Tel Aviv, Spring 1998

Zeev Rudnick

The seminar will consist mostly of presentations by the students of various topics in Number Theory and its applications, possibly to Computer Science, cryptography etc.

Schedule:

Tuesday 14-16, Dan David 211


Topics:

  1. March 17: Continued fractions, periodic c.f's and quadratic irrationalities. exercises .
  2. March 24: Quaternions and the four-square theorem. exercises .
  3. March 31: The transcendence of e. exercises .
  4. April 7: Geometry of numbers and applications
  5. April 21, 28: Dirichlet's theorem on primes in progressions.

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