Infinity and Beyond,A Short Course on the different concepts ofInfinity in MathematicsFall 2007 |
Instructors: See below
Course Schedule:
| Date | Lecture | Title | Speaker |
|
2007.10.29, 4pm 2007.10.31, 9am |
Lecture 1 |
Infinity in
Real Arithmetic
|
Dr. Wafik Lotfallah |
| 2007.11.07, 9am | Lecture 2 |
Infinity in
Calculus
|
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Amer |
| 2007.11.12, 4pm | Lecture 3 | Infinity in Complex Arithmetic | Dr. Oleksiy Us |
|
2007.11.19, 4pm 2007.11.21, 9am |
Lecture 4 |
Infinite
Cardinals
|
Dr. Wafik Lotfallah |
|
2007.11.26, 4pm 2007.11.28, 9am |
Lecture 5 |
Infinite
Ordinals
|
Dr. Wafik Lotfallah |
|
2007.12.10, 4pm 2007.12.12, 9am |
Lecture 6 | Hyperreal Numbers (Nonstandard
Analysis) |
Dr. Wafik Lotfallah |
|
2007.12.17, 4pm 2007.12.26, 9am |
Lecture 7 |
Surreal Numbers |
Dr. Wafik Lotfallah |
|
2007.1.2, 9am 2007.1.16, 9am |
Lecture 8 |
Infinity in Computing |
Dr. Hossam Fahmy |
Reading Material and Useful Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html