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PROMYS Guest Lecture

Title: Euler’s Zeta values
Speaker: Haruzo Hida (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Date: 23 May 2025
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LH-1, Mathematics Department

We describe how Euler added up all positive integers into a mysterious fraction when he was 28 years old, and I try to legitimize his method “p-adically”. This is a story of Number Theory from the 17th century on. We only need some knowledge of polynomials and fractions of polynomials and very basics of differentiation. If time allows, I will enter into some results related to Ramanujan I found when I was 28 years old. For the results exposed here, a detailed proof can be found in my book: “Elementary Theory of L-functions and Eisenstein Series,” LMSST vol. 26, 1993, Cambridge U. Press.


Contact: +91 (80) 2293 2711, +91 (80) 2293 2265 ;     E-mail: chair.math[at]iisc[dot]ac[dot]in
Last updated: 14 Jun 2025