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Revisiting Fundamental Problems Workshop: Old Problems in Irrationality January 19, 2027 - January 22, 2027
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Series: Revisiting Fundamental Problems, Revisiting Fundamental Problems
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Commons Room, Atrium, Online/Virtual
Organizers LEAD Frank Calegari (University of Chicago), Yunqing Tang (Harvard University), Wadim Zudilin (Radboud University Nijmegen)
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A contour used in [Calegari–Dimitrov–Tang, 2024] to prove L(2, χ−3) ∈/ Q.
In 1978, Apéry proved that ζ(3) was irrational. Almost 50 years later, we still don’t know if ζ(5) is irrational. Why not? The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts on explicit rational approximations and motivic differential equations to consider new approaches to these questions.
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