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Plot of the Riemann Zeta function at height 7000

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It shows a run of the Riemann Zeta function from height 7000, near the location of the famous Lehmer pair. Computed using Nvidia CUDA, will be used as a workshop at the Waterloo Tech Week. The speed of the video is uniform. Each square is of dimension one unit by one unit. This video is a short followup on the animated Riemann zeta videos, as none of them explore the zeta function at high heights. The basic derivation and method of analytic continuation has been presented in a way that can be understood by an incoming mathematics or computer science freshman. The voiceover has been provided by Denis Silin from Exodus Orbitals - I and Denis collaborated on the application.

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Nice visuals! I am not sure the explanation is given in enough detail to be useful for students in its current form. The formulas on screen go by very quickly and are not explained a lot, so if you don’t already know them there is not enough time to absorb.

Topic and presentation not very engaging. It becomes very monotonous and hard to follow quite quickly. It’s better to use nicely formatted slides and go through explanations and derivations one by one instead of a bunch of handwritten notes. Later the music becomes very distracting and the speaker doesn’t seem to be very passionate about the topic.

Pacing was comfortable for me. Further, although it does not explain a lot of grand motivation or a concept in itself, I find this type of entry novel, and quite refreshing. This was nice to see!!!

Maybe I’m just don’t know enough complex analysis, but some expressions seemed to come out of nowhere, great visuals though.