Graduate Student Colloquium: Jeff Stopple (UCSB), 'The Riemann Hypothesis'

Event Date: 

Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

Event Location: 

  • 6635 South Hall

Event Contact: 

Daryl Cooper

Email: cooper@math.ucsb.edu

The Riemann Hypothesis is considered to be one of the most difficult unsolved problems in mathematics. One interpretation, due to physicist Sir Michael Berry, is that ?'the primes have music in them.?" This talk requires only calculus to see what is meant by this. We will hear the (conjectural) music.