Lee Troupe
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Lee Troupe
In the late 1930s, Paul Erdos attended a seminar at Cornell University given by Mark Kac, who suspected that divisibility by primes satisfies a certain "statistical independence" condition. If this were true, the central limit theorem could be used...
Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Lee Troupe
What happens when you add up the divisors of an integer? This seemingly innocuous question has motivated mathematicians across the ages, from antiquity to the present day. In this talk, we'll survey some conjectures and results on the functions s(n)...