SMS scnews item created by Gareth White at Wed 30 Jul 2008 1700
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 1 Aug 2008
Calendar1: 1 Aug 2008 1200-1300
CalLoc1: Carslaw 452
Auth: garethw@asti.maths.usyd.edu.au

# SUMS: Guo -- The Divine Ratio

Hello everybody,

This week’s talk is on the golden ratio, also known as phi.  I’m sure most of you know
living under rocks, if you have 2 positive real numbers a and b (where a>b) such that
(a+b)/a = a/b, then a/b is the golden ratio.  Actually, forget that, come to Ivan’s
talk, he will make it sound much more interesting! He has told me that, among other
things, the talk will look at Fibonacci numbers, the Princess problem (which I’ve never
heard of before), and if he has time, the Beatty Theorem.

I should also point out that the time and location of this week’s talk are slightly
different to what we had in Semester 1, due to the availability of our speaker this
week.  Please make note of this as we start an hour earlier this week and I would hate
for people wanting to see this talk and find out that they missed it.  Everything will
be back to normal for week 2 onwards.

Talk: The Divine Ratio Speaker: Ivan Guo Date: Friday, August 1 Time: 12pm-1pm Location:
Carslaw 452

I hope to see you there!

Gareth

"Football is like chess, only without the dice" - Lukas Podolski


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