EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Induction and Recurrences
Speaker: Miguel A. Lerma
Speaker Info: Northwestern University
Brief Description: This is a training session for the Putnam Competition
Special Note: This is a training session for the Putnam Competition
Abstract:

Problem A4 of this year's Selection Test asked a question about a sequence defined recursively, and it could be solved by mathematical induction. We will look at this and similar problems.