Themen und Termine/Topics and dates
Schedule
Monday, Oct. 9: Slides presentation (20 mins per talk plus questions)
10:00 - 10:30: Ivo Babowsky
10:30 - 11:00: Maximillian Leist
11:00 - 11:30: Peter Vogel
11:30 - 12:00: Sude Ergün
13:00 - 13:30: Janis Bailitis
13:30 - 14:00: Ben Sievers
14:00 - 14:30: Henry Hansen
14:30 - 15:00: Felix Caglioti
Wednesday, Oct 11: Blackboard talks (60 to 90 mins per talk)
10:00 - 11:30: Ivo Babowsky
11:30 - 13:00: Maximillian Leist
14:00 - 15:30: Peter Vogel
15:30 - 17:00: Sude Ergün
Thursday, Oct 12: Blackboard talks (60 to 90 mins per talk)
10:00 - 11:30: Janis Bailitis
11:30 - 13:00: Ben Sievers
14:00 - 15:30: Henry Hansen
15:30 - 17:00: Felix Caglioti
Themen/Topics
(Die Kapitelnamen sind auf Englisch, da sie aus der englischen Version entnommen wurden. Sie können natürlich auch die deutsche Version des Buches verwenden, Je nach Ausgabe, die sie verwenden, können Kapitel fehlen und die Nummerierung kann anders sein. Ich habe hier die 6. Ausgabe verwendet.)
(The chapters below are taken from the English version, 6th edition. If you use a different edition, the numbering might be slightly different.)
Choose a topic by sending Markus Bläser an email.
Chapter 2: Bertrand's postulate --- Ivo Babowsky
Chapter 3: Binomial coefficients are (almost) never powers
Chapter 4: Representing numbers as sums of two squares
Chapter 5: The law of quadratic reciprocity
Chapter 6: Every finite division ring is a field --- Maximillian Leist
Chapter 10: Hilbert's third problem: Decomposing polyhydra
Chapter 13: Three applications of Euler's formula --- Peter Vogel
Chapter 17: Ever large set of points has an obtuse angle
Chapter 18: Borsuk's conjecture
Chapter 19: Sets, functions, and the continuum hypothesis --- Sude Ergün
Chapter 24: Van der Waerden's permanent conjecture --- Janis Bailitis
Chapter 28: The pigeonhole principle and double counting --- Ben Sievers
Chapter 31: Shuffling cards --- Henry Hansen
Chapter 32: Lattices paths and determinants
Chapter 33: Cayley's formula for the number of trees
Chapter 36: Completing Latin squares --- Felix Caglioti
Chapter 37: Permanents and the power of entropy
Chapter 42: Communicating without errors
Chapter 45: Probability makes counting (sometimes) easy