Name: IMA NW Branch talk from Dr. Charles Walkden
Start: 2019-11-19T18:00:00Z
End: 2019-11-19T19:00:00Z
Location: Alan Turing Building, G.107

IMA NW Branch talk from Dr. Charles Walkden

Prof. William Lionheart

What's normal about numbers?  
- Dr. Charles Walkden
(University of Manchester)

Alan Turing Building, G.107

If you pick a number at random, what would you typically expect it to look like? Why does π look more 'typical' than √2 or the number e (the base of natural logarithms)? And what connects butterflies, card shuffles and abstract problems in number theory?

Dynamical systems - popularly known as chaos theory - is the study of how mathematical systems evolve in time. From its early beginnings studying physical systems, particularly in Newtonian mechanics, dynamical systems now spans across many areas of both pure and applied mathematics. In this talk, we'll see how classical constructions in chaotic dynamical systems can be linked to questions in number theory, and how it easily leads to interesting but (as yet) unsolved problems.

IMA NW Branch talk from Dr. Charles Walkden

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