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MATH Colloquium: SSU Mathematics & Statistics Department Presents, Seki Takakazu

  • Sonoma State University 1801 E Cotati Ave Rohnert Park, CA, 94928 United States (map)

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Presenter: Sam Brannen, SSU Math Department 

You may have heard that the Pythagorean Theorem was known to many ancient cultures long before the life of Pythagoras, but did you know that Bernoulli numbers were discovered by a Japanese mathematician, 10 years before Bernoulli? This talk will focus on the life and mathematical accomplishments of Seki Takakazu.