Monday, February 25, 2019, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EST

Ronald J. Gould, Goodrich C. White Professor of Mathematics Emeritus

“How I Gained an International Reputation as a Gambler”

In this talk I will relate the tale of how developing and then teaching a freshman seminar (titled “Mathematics in Games, Sports, and Gambling”) here at Emory has caused me to develop an international reputation as a gambler, with strange events and unusual requests ensuing. Along the way I plan to show you a few of the problems I pose in the freshman seminar to show students that mathematics, even simple mathematics, can be useful—and fun. In the process, for you as for them, I hope to “demystify” how mathematics is done, at all levels, including the far-from-simple, and give you at least a glimpse of the beauty all mathematicians see in our subject and our work.