Seminar series
Date
Thu, 08 Jun 2017
Time
14:00 -
15:00
Location
L2
Speaker
Prof. J. M. Sanz-Serna
Organisation
University of Madrid Carlos III
Gauss invented Gaussian quadrature following an approach entirely different from the one we now find in textbooks. I will describe leisurely the contents of Gauss's original memoir on quadrature, an impressive piece of mathematics, based on continued fractions, Padé approximation, generating functions, the hypergeometric series and more.