The Complex Elephant Returns!
Join us on Thursday, October 17th from 11:45 – 12:45 in room OSC 240 as Dr. Karabegov gives a colloquium on the manifestation of complex numbers in our real calculus sequence.
In a previous talk on complex numbers, Dr. Karabegov entitled the talk, “The Complex Elephant” (alluding to the parable of the 5 blind men who touched different parts of an elephant and made different conclusions about the nature of the elephant as a whole). There may be another equally exciting metaphor, more blind people, or a whole herd of elephants this time. Who knows? Come find out.
Abstract: In this talk we will learn about the manifestation of complex numbers in the usual “real” calculus. I will go over the basics on complex numbers (addition, multiplication, division, conjugates, polar form, etc). Then I will show how different algebraic and integral formulas are related through complex numbers. One of the fun facts is that the exponential function is periodic.
