[ugrads] Fwd: Cory Knapp Talk, Wednesday

[Fred J. Hickernell]

Dear students, 

Cory Knapp will be giving a talk this Wednesday at Math Club
E1 102
12:50
 Cory is an undergraduate who recently returned from a Mathematics
 semester in Budapest
 He also has done/ is doing research here at IIT

 Dont miss out on this great talk

 ABSTRACT:
 Briefly, a filter on a set X is a family of subsets of X which is
 closed upwards and under finite intersections; an ultrafilter is a
 filter for which every subset of X or its complement are guaranteed to
 be in the filter. Ultrafilters have applications in logic, topology
 and set theory. My talk will give a slightly more in-depth definition
 of an ultrafilter, and discuss their relation to probability measures
 where an event happens either "almost always" or "almost never". The
 talk will end with a brief mention of some foundational issues
 regarding the existence of ultrafilters on the set of natural numbers.

Best regards,
Fred

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