Leibniz is still alive - and so are his mathematical ideas in the third millennium
 
 
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In the current year 2016, we are celebrating the third centennial of Leibniz's death. This is a good occasion to present some highlights in the immense mathematical work of the great universal genius under a modern point of view, and to add some surprising interpretations that might have elapsed the Big Master of Science - or consciously hidden by himself in order to prevent plagiarism.

Here are some problems we shall discuss and solve by surprising methods:


(1) How to compare Leibniz's harmonic triangle with Pascal's triangle?


(2) How to compute infinite sums of reciprocal hypergeometric numbers?


(3) How to visualize the Leibniz series with a pizza?


(4) How to understand that a hanging chain cannot be a parabola, and
how to find its real shape?


(5) How to determine logarithms by using a file?


(6) How to compute the area of a Portuguese windmill wing by rotating
the wheel?


Our approach will be supported by the modern slogan: "A picture is worth
a thousand words".

 

Start Date:  2016-09-21
Start Time:   15:00
Speaker:  Marcel Erné (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
Institution:  Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany)
Place:  Room 2.4, DMat, University of Coimbra
URL:  http://www2.iazd.uni-hannover.de/~erne/
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