Big Numbers: From Combinatorics to Logic

Seminar: 
Combinatorics Seminar
Event time: 
Thursday, November 30, 2017 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Speaker: 
Rebecca Coulson
Speaker affiliation: 
Rutgers University
Event description: 

What is the biggest number you know? Of course thereare infinitely many numbers, but constructing extremely large finite numbers is a nontrivial task. In this talk we will discuss methods of constructing such numbers, and we will then explore what additional logical axioms can do for us.