Grad Student Colloquium

Yash Totani, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Mellin Transforms"

Mellin transforms, a powerful mathematical tool that often stands in the shadow of its more popular counterpart, the Laplace transform, have found remarkable applications across various disciplines. In this talk, we explore the analytic properties of Mellin transforms and as an example, provide a rich solution to the following equation due to Ramanujan

$$\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{n^{13}}{e^{2\pi n}-1}=\frac{1}{24}. $$

Given extra time, we will delve into their connection with Dirichlet series.

MC 5501