Abstract: I will speak about joint work with Chieu-Minh Tran, a former grad student at UIUC, where we explore the randomness of the square-free integers and evaluate whether four natural first-order structures are tame (read domesticable) or not. I will primarily focus on the very accessible number-theoretic phenomenon we established: the analogue of Dickson’s conjecture for the square-free integers, and finish by stating the model-theoretic consequences it entailed. The talk will be accessible to undergraduates, in particular, no prior knowledge of first-order logic will be assumed.
About Neer Bhardwaj: Final year PhD student at Math UIUC, working with the interactions of model theory with algebra and number theory.
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