Ram Murty (Queen's University)
Date
Thursday January 23, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location
Jeffery Hall, Room 118Event Category
Math Club
Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
Time: 5:30 p.m. Place: Jeffery Hall, Room 118
Speaker: Ram Murty (¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥)
Title: The 2-adic logarithm
Abstract: We will discuss how to make sense of the equation
$$\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{2^n}{n} = 0, $$
by entering the 2-adic world and studying the analog of the logarithm function there. In the process, we will discover there is a spectrum of p-adic worlds, one for each prime number p. Like presiding deities of the known universe of numbers, these worlds hold many hidden secrets!