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Math & Stats Number Theory Seminar
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Time: 4:00 p.m.  Place: Jeffery Hall, Room 202

Speaker: Ram Murty (³ÉÈË´óƬ)

Title: The Partition Function Revisited via Probability

Abstract: In 1918, Hardy and Ramanujan derived the asymptotic behavior of the partition function using the complicated circle method. In 1997, Baez-Duarte derived the same formula simply using ideas of probability theory and the central limit theorem. I will discuss this paper and give an informal presentation of the key ideas.