Mathematics Colloquium ~ September 18

September 17, 2014
Hello, Math Students and all interested parties:

Please join us for the weekly Mathematics Colloquium on Thursday, September 18, titled: Using Fubini’s Principle in Counting Problems with HSU Mathematics Professor, Dr. Dale Oliver. The Colloqium begins at 4 p.m. in BSS 204.
 
Don't forget coffee, tea and goodies at the Pre-Colloquium Tea at 3:30 in the 3rd Floor Open Area in the BSS building.

The Fubini principle in Combinatorics (the study of counting) says that if you can’t count something directly, try to express the count in two different ways and then set the two expressions equal to one another.  This principle bears the name of Guido Fubini, whose theorem in 1907 established conditions in analysis under which it is possible to compute a double integral regardless of the order of integration.  (Euler and others know of these conditions for most of the functions encountered by undergraduates, but Fubini established the conditions for more general contexts.  In this colloquium, we won’t do any analysis – only counting.  Expect to engage in some fun problems and to appreciate the power of the Fubini principle in a discrete context.

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