EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Inequalities
Speaker: Miguel A. Lerma
Speaker Info: Northwestern University
Brief Description: Training session for the Putnam Competition
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition
Abstract:

We will look at some challenging problems involving inequalities, as well as optimization problems that are hard to solve using conventional techniques but become much simpler by using a "guess and prove" approach.