Michael Somos
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Michael Somos is an American
mathematician
, currently a visiting scholar in Georgetown University
. In the late eighties he proposed an intriguing conjecture about certain polynomial recurrences, now called Somos sequence
s, that surprisingly in some cases contain only integers. Somos' quadratic recurrence constant is also named after him.
United States
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mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
, currently a visiting scholar in Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
. In the late eighties he proposed an intriguing conjecture about certain polynomial recurrences, now called Somos sequence
Somos sequence
In mathematics, a Somos sequence is a sequence of numbers defined by a bilinear recurrence relation, discovered by mathematician Michael Somos. It is not obvious from the form of their defining recurrence that every number in a Somos sequence is an integer, but nevertheless many Somos sequences...
s, that surprisingly in some cases contain only integers. Somos' quadratic recurrence constant is also named after him.