Speaker — Victor H. Moll (Dept. of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA)
Abstract — In the process of verifying entries of the classical table of integrals by Gradshteyn and Ryzhik, the author observed that entry 3.248.5 was incorrect. This talk will discuss how was this discovered, the correct solution obtained this year by Arias de Reyna and the typo in the table, discovered by Petr Blaschke.
Biography — Victor H. Moll is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. From 1992 to 2001, he was Associate Professor of Mathematics at Tulane University. In 1999, he was Visiting Professor at the Univeridad Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile. In 1995, he was Visiting Member at the Courant Institute, New York University. From 1986 to 1992, he was Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Tulane University. In 1990 and 1991, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. From 1984 to 1986, he was postdoctoral researcher at the Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His research interests are Classical Analysis, Symbolic Computation, Special Functions, and Number Theory.
