PIMS 10th Anniversary Distinguished Speaker Series: "Mathematics: An Experimental Science"

Friday, May 25, 2007
14:30 - 16:30
Rm10900

Dr. Herbert Wilf
University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

We'll discuss some recent results that were conjectured via computer experiments and then proved. The examples will be drawn from number theory, Young Tableaux, hypergeometric determinant evaluation, theory of matrices of 0s and 1s, etc. Several unsolved problems that also resulted from these studies will be presented.