James Mingo (Queen's University)
Date
Thursday March 14, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location
Jeffery Hall, Room 118Event Category
Math Club
Thursday, March 14th, 2024
Time: 5:30 p.m. Place: Jeffery Hall, Room 118
Speaker: James Mingo (Queen's University)
Title: Up and down and down and up
Abstract: We look at the number of ways of arranging 1, 2, 3, $\ldots$, $n$, so that the numbers go up, then down, then back up, and so on. While there isn’t a simple closed formula for this number as a function of $n$, there is a very simple way of analyzing the number and a simple connection to the Taylor series of some very familiar functions.