Talk

Geometric series, summation by parts and friends

Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester

Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Zoom ID 573 239 4086

This is the first talk of the “Basic skills” series. We are going to start with the geometric series, both finite and infinite and move on to the series of the form

\[\sum_{k=1}^N k^a A^k.\]

In this context, we are going to develop summation by parts and apply them to the problem at hand. In the process, we are going to encounter many old friends like the binomial formula and simple recursive sequences.

Everything in this talk will be developed from scratch and very little prior knowledge is required.

Event contact: iosevich at gmail dot com