Scholar Series – Daniel Pragel, Ph.D.

 The Scholar Series is an initiative by UA Fort Smith’s Center for Lifelong Learning to provide learning opportunities for the general public free of charge. UA Fort Smith faculty members will present a topic that draws broadly on the faculty member’s research and experience. 

The Scholar series will be held at lunch two Thursdays in March and two Thursdays in April 22 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Echols Conference Center on the UA Fort Smith campus. Admission is free.

For more information about our Scholar Series, contact the center at (479) 788-7220 or by email: [email protected]

April 14, 2011
Daniel Pragel, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Who wants to be a millionaire mathematician?

In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute announced the creation of the "Millennium Prize Problems," a collection of seven mathematical problems, each with a million dollar prize for its solution. These problems were chosen both for their difficulty and for their mathematical significance. I will focus on two of the problems: the "Poincare Conjecture," which, to this date, is the only one of the problems which has been solved, and "P versus NP," a problem which deals with finding efficient computer algorithms.