Westminster College Hosts Speaker at Math Colloquium

Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Dr. Jennifer Roche of the College of Wooster was the guest speaker at a colloquium hosted by the Westminster College Mathematics and Computer Science Department Oct. 16.

Her presentation was "An Introduction to Partition Theory."

A partition of a positive integer n is a way of writing n as the sum of positive integers. Partitions, parts, the number of possible partitions of any integer n, and a brief history of the subject were discussed.

Contact Westminster's Mathematics and Computer Science Department at (724) 946-7284 or visit www.westminster.edu/acad/math/dept/overview.cfm for additional information.