A seminar based on 'Proofs from the BOOK', a collection of beautiful arguments curated by Aigner and Ziegler inspired by an idea of Erdös.
Before you start preparing your talk, please have a look at the following guidelines.
The seminar takes place on Thursdays from 16:15 to 18:00 in ML F 39
| date | topic | assigned student |
|---|---|---|
| 21.09.23 | Introduction by Feller | |
| 28.09.23 | The Borromean rings don't exist (15) Communicating without errors (42) |
Vladimir Nowak Matthias Bonvin |
| 05.10.23 | Cotangent and the Herglotz trick (26) The chromatic number of Kneser graphs (43) |
Fabienne Gössi Daniel Hostettler |
| 12.10.23 | Six proofs on the infinity of primes (1) The spectral theorem and Hadamard’s determinant problem (7) |
Leon Dahlmeier Loïc Dobler |
| 19.10.23 | Representing numbers as sums of two squares (4) In praise of inequalities (20) |
Lukas Hartmann Luana Jost |
| 26.10.23 | Hilbert’s third problem: decomposing polyhedra (10) One square and an odd number of triangles (22) |
Maciej Smela Caroline Braun |
| 02.11.23 | Of friends and politicians (44) Tiling rectangles (29) |
Naomi Rosenberg Fiona Binder |
| 09.11.23 | Every finite division ring is a field (6) Lattice paths and determinants (32) |
Jannik Kochert Harshul Khanna |
| 16.11.23 | Cauchy’s rigidity theorem (14) Cayley’s formula for the number of trees (33) |
Yitong Li Loris Giger |
| 23.11.23 | Four times \(\frac{\pi^2}{6}\) (9) Five-coloring plane graphs (39) |
Melissa Daniele Laura Stratil |
| 30.11.23 | The finite Kakeya problem (35) Borsuk’s conjecture (18) |
Lukas Hoffer Maria Morariu |
| 07.12.23 | How to Guard a Museum (40) Probability makes counting (sometimes) easy (45) |
Maximilian Weigel Jiachen Xue |
| 14.12.23 | Some irrational numbers (8) Three applications of Euler’s formula (13) |
Jonathan Reichart Eva Lia Tarquini |