CARMA Colloquium

12:00 pm

Friday, 22nd Jul 2011

V129, Mathematics Building


Prof David Bailey

(Berkeley, California)

Hand-to-Hand Combat with Thousand-Digit Integrals

One of the most effective avenues in recent experimental mathematics research is the computational of definite integrals to high precision, followed by the identification of resulting numerical values as compact analytic formulas involving well-known constants and functions. In this talk we summarize several applications of this methodology in the realm of applied mathematics and mathematical physics, in particular Ising theory, "box integrals", and the study of random walks.