Tuesday, October 09, 2007
4:15 PM -
5:15 PM
Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
Extending N! to Functions on the Real and P-adic Numbers, and their Values at Rational Arguments
Benedict Gross,
Leverett Professor of Mathematics ,
Harvard University,
Speaker's Bio:
Benedict Gross, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics, received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, and taught at Princeton and Brown before joining the Harvard faculty in 1985. He has served as chair of the Department of Mathematics, and as a member of the Standing Committee on the Core Curriculum, the Educational Policy Committee, and the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid. Among his many awards and honors are the Cole Prize from the American Mathematical Society, and a MacArthur Fellowship (1986-91). Gross is known for his work in number theory, particularly the Gross-Zagier theorem on L-functions of elliptic curves with Don Zagier.
Benedict Gross, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics, received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, and taught at Princeton and Brown before joining the Harvard faculty in 1985. He has served as chair of the Department of Mathematics, and as a member of the Standing Committee on the Core Curriculum, the Educational Policy Committee, and the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid. Among his many awards and honors are the Cole Prize from the American Mathematical Society, and a MacArthur Fellowship (1986-91). Gross is known for his work in number theory, particularly the Gross-Zagier theorem on L-functions of elliptic curves with Don Zagier.
"Extending N! to Functions on the Real and P-adic Numbers, and their Values at Rational Arguments," Benedict Gross, Leverett Professor of Mathematics , Harvard University.
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