Did you know that your mind is doing algebra without you even realizing it—or, that mathematics conflicts with our notion of free will? These conundrums and more will be discussed at the next Mathematics Colloquium Series presentation, hosted by the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences. The talk will use illustrations to explain a variety of “conversation starters” and brain teasers with a mathematical twist.
“Mathematical Conversation Starters for the Rest of Us”
Mathematics Colloquium Series | John de Pillis, Ph.D. (University of California)
Wednesday, Apr. 9
Noon–1:00 p.m.
Mailman-Hollywood Building | Second Floor Auditorium
About the Talk
Learn how to visualize the mathematical solutions to real-world and other worldly questions. Can a quart of ink cover an infinite area? Are three dimensions necessary for our existence? Did Sherlock Holmes ever actually “deduce” anything? Did Aristotle assert that women have fewer teeth than men? This presentation will address these questions—and many others—using illustrations and live drawings.
About the Speaker
John de Pillis, Ph.D., is a professor of mathematics at the University of California and a commercial artist. He is author of 777 Mathematical Conversation Starters (2002), and co-author of Illustrated Special Relativity Through Its Paradoxes: A Fusion of Linear Algebra, Graphics, and Reality, published this past January. View a sampling of his illustrated work at http://math.ucr.edu/~jdp.
For more information about the Mathematics Colloquium Series, contact Vehbi Paksoy, Ph.D., or Iuliana Stanculescu, Ph.D., associate professors at the college.
Also Streaming Online
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