National Mathematics day will be celebrated by the Department of Mathematics on 22nd December to commemorate the contributions of Srinivas Ramanujan, one of the finest mathematicians of modern day Mathematics India has ever produced.
Prof. K. B. Athreya of Iowa State University, USA will deliver a talk on the topic "Who survive?"
The Abstract of the talk is as follows.
Abstract: Who Survive?
Let n persons sit in a circle in chairs numbered 1,2,3,...,n. The person in chair #1 gets a hat. This person knocks down the person in chair #2 and gives the hat to person #3 and goes back to chair #1. This goes indefinitely until one person is left with a hat. Who is that person?