Pure Math Colloquium | Kumar Murty | Motives, periods and Catalan's constant

There is a fundamental view that the constants that repeatedly arise in number theory should either be special values of L-functions, or periods of algebraic varieties (or more generally, of motives), and usually both.We will describe this view with examples, including recent work with Payman Eskandari and Yusuke Nemoto on Catalan's constant.

MC 5501