Dr. Alissa S. Crans - A Surreptitious Sequence: The Catalan Numbers from higher math lecture Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 18 min 57 sec
✓ Published: 25-May-2017

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This lecture was filmed at the 2017 National Math Festival in Washington, D.C. and features Dr. Alissa S. Crans of Loyola Marymount University. nnMany of us are familiar with famous sequences of numbers such as the odd numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, …, perfect squares 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, …, Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, … ,or the triangular numbers 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, … But what about the sequence 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, …? First described by Euler in the 1700s and made famous by Belgian mathematician E