{"id":298,"date":"2019-10-09T17:28:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/?p=298"},"modified":"2019-10-16T14:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T19:52:31","slug":"mu-sigma-colloquium-dr-karabegov-thursday-oct-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/2019\/10\/09\/mu-sigma-colloquium-dr-karabegov-thursday-oct-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"Mu Sigma Talks &#8211; Dr. Karabegov &#8211; Thursday, Oct 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Complex Elephant Returns!<\/h3>\n<p>Join us on Thursday, October 17th from 11:45 &#8211; 12:45 in room OSC 240 as Dr. Karabegov gives a colloquium on the manifestation of complex numbers in our real calculus sequence.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous talk on complex numbers, Dr. Karabegov entitled the talk, &#8220;The Complex Elephant&#8221; (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).\u00a0 There may be another equally exciting metaphor, more blind people, or a whole herd of elephants this time.\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 Come find out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0 <\/strong>In this talk we will learn about the manifestation of complex numbers in the usual &#8220;real&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Complex Elephant Returns! Join us on Thursday, October 17th from 11:45 &#8211; 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, &#8220;The Complex Elephant&#8221; (alluding to the parable of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[181671],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mu-sigma-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}