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A horse racing story in ancient China, two types of card games, three theorems in matrix theory, and a number of consequences

Vrijeme:	4.6.2007 17:00
Predavaonica:	005
Predavač:	Chi-Kwong Li, Department of Mathematics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, USA
Naziv:	A horse racing story in ancient China, two types of card games, three theorems in matrix theory, and a number of consequences
Opis: Motivated by a horse racing story in ancient China, we consider two types of card games, which are related to results on the inertia of Hermitian matrices with prescribed eigenvalues. The study has interesting connections and implications to other areas such as probability, statistics, and algebraic combinatorics. (This is joint work with Yiu-Tung Poon of the Iowa State University.)