Speaker: Biswajyoti Saha, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Hyderabad
Abstract: Prime numbers are the building blocks for the whole numbers. Just by starting from the infinitude of primes and their distribution, one is led to many questions that have been foundational for research in number theory. For instance, the study of the Riemann zeta function is intimately connected to the distribution of prime numbers. Our lecture will be devoted to exploring some of these connections and it would be accessible to the undergraduate students in mathematics.