Friday, January 20, 2017. 4:10 p.m. â 5 p.m.. Building 53 Room 201. Abstract. Doodling. It seems like such an innocent and mindless activity. Kids certainly do it ...
Mathematics Colloquium The Mathematics of Doodling Rob Easton Department of Mathematics Cal Poly Friday, January 20, 2017 4:10 p.m. – 5 p.m. Building 53 Room 201
Abstract Doodling. It seems like such an innocent and mindless activity. Kids certainly do it all the time, and we can probably all admit to whiling away a boring moment drawing loops and swirls in the margins of our paper. But in the words of Leibniz, “Il y a jusque dans les exercices des enfants ce qui pourrait arrˆeter le plus grand Math´ematicien. [Even in the games of children there are things to interest the greatest mathematician.]” Come doodle with me, and I’ll take you on a journey in which we circle the earth, attempt to outsmart Russian train tycoons, and learn how to pass prison time experimentally measuring pi.
About the speaker: I grew up in the“thumb area” of Michigan and attended the University of Michigan as an undergrad (Go, Blue!). I earned my Ph.D. at Stanford in 2007, working in algebraic geometry under the guidance of Professor Ravi Vakil. It was Professor Vakil’s talk on the mathematics of doodling at the 2009 MathFest that inspired this talk, and earned him a Lester B. Ford award. I joined the department here at Cal Poly in the fall of 2011 (Go, Mustangs!). My current research focus is tropical algebraic geometry, which happens to involve a fair bit of doodling.
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