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Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 6:00pm

Jeff Suzuki

Brooklyn College

Location

Villanova University

103 Mendel Hall

Supper served at $8 (optional)

Gauss is usually credited with being the first to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra, but his dissertation is actually titled a "new" proof of the fundamental theorem. We'll look at a few of the pre-Gaussian proofs, and make an argument that Lagrange, not Gauss, was the first to make a truly rigorous proof of the Fundamental Theorem.