Andrew Coppola : Goodstein sequences: speeding towards nowhere, passing by infinity

Posted by Matthias Aschenbrenner , part of the Logic Seminar.

At

Feb. 21, 2006, 4 p.m.

In

SEO 427

Abstract

We will discuss a surprising fact about these sequences of natural numbers which appear to grow at an explosive rate, and sketch a proof about them using perhaps equally surprising techniques from logic.