Honours Project Group 2007/08

Divergent Series


Topics list

Article: Euler and His Work on Infinite Series.

This is an interesting article that gives some historical and overall perspective to the topic we have been dealing with.  I encourage you to look through it even if you may not be able to follow all the arguments.


Meeting time & venue

Semester I:        Monday 2-4pm, CRB = S14 #03-09

Semester II:       Monday 2-4pm, Maths Studio = S14 #03-01

 

Schedule of talks

Semester I

Date 27 August 3 September 10 September 17 September 1 October 8 October 15 October 22 October
Speaker(s) D. Leung D. Leung Tan Tian Sheng Abegail Wee Winnifred Lim Kumar Abegail Wee Winnifred Lim
- - Kumar Seow Jun Jie Liang Peiyun Tan Tian Sheng Seow Jun Jie Liang Peiyun

 

Date 14 January 21 January 28 January 4 February 11 February 18 February
Speaker(s) Tan Tian Sheng Abegail Wee Winnifred Lim Tan Tian Sheng Abegail Wee Winnifred Lim
Kumar Seow Jun Jie Liang Peiyun Kumar Seow Jun Jie Liang Peiyun

 

 Detailed schedule

Date: 27 August
Speaker: D. Leung
Topic: Fourier series

 

Date: 3 September
Speaker: D. Leung
Topic: Cesaro and Abel summability

 

Date: 10 September
Speakers: Tan Tian Sheng Kumar
Topics:

Matrix transformations I (3)

Norlund means (5) 

 

Date: 17 September
Speakers: Wee Ee Joo Abegail Seow Jun Jie
Topics:

Euler and Abelian means (6)

Holder and Cesaro means (7)

 

Date: 1 October
Speakers: Lim Zhi Jun Winnifred Liang Peiyun
Topics:

Tauberian theorems for Cesaro means (9)

Euler and Borel means (11)

 

Date: 8 October
Speakers: Kumar Tan Tian Sheng
Topics: Norlund means 2 (5) Matrix transformations I.2 (3)

 

Date: 15 October
Speakers: Wee Ee Joo Abegail Seow Jun Jie
Topics:

Euler and Abelian means 2 (6)

Holder and Cesaro means 2 (7)

 

Date: 22 October
Speakers: Lim Zhi Jun Winnifred Liang Peiyun
Topics:

Tauberian theorems for Cesaro means 2 (9)

Euler and Borel means 2 (11)

                            Semester II

Date: 14 January
Speakers: Tan Tian Sheng Kumar
Topics:

Matrix transformations II (4)

Norlund means 3 (5) 

 

Date: 21 January
Speakers: Wee Ee Joo Abegail Seow Jun Jie
Topics:

Euler and Abelian means 3 (6)

Arithmetic means (7)

 

Date: 28 January
Speakers: Lim Zhi Jun Winnifred Liang Peiyun
Topics:

Tauberian theorems for Abel means (10)

Multiplication of series (13)

 

Date: 4 February
Speakers: Tan Tian Sheng Kumar
Topics:

Matrix transformations II (4)

Asymptotic series (16) 

 

Date: 11 February
Speakers: Wee Ee Joo Abegail Seow Jun Jie
Topics:

Euler and Abelian means 4 (6)

Holder and Cesaro means (7)

 

Date: 18 February
Speakers: Lim Zhi Jun Winnifred Liang Peiyun
Topics:

Tauberian theorems for Abel means (10)

Multiplication of series (13)

 

Notes

 

Author Topic
Tan Tian Sheng Matrix transformations I, Matrix transformations II.1Matrix transformations II.2
Kumar Norlund means, Asymptotic series
Wee Ee Joo Abegail Euler and Abelian means
Seow Jun Jie Holder and Cesaro means, Arithmetic means
Lim Zhi Jun Winnifred Tauberian theorems
Liang Peiyun Euler and Borel means, Euler and Borel means 2, Multiplication of series

 


Denny H. Leung
Department of Mathematics
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117543
Republic of Singapore
matlhh (at) nus (dot) edu (dot) sg
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