The Mathematics of Doodling

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• Professor Ravi Vakil (Stanford University)
• Friday 22 April 2016, 12:00-13:00
• Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

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Doodling has many mathematical aspects: patterns, shapes, numbers, and more. Not surprisingly, there is often some sophisticated and fun mathematics buried inside common doodles. I’ll begin by doodling, and see where it takes us. It looks like play, but it reflects what mathematics is really about: finding patterns in nature, explaining them, and extending them. By the end, we’ll have seen some important notions in geometry, topology, physics, and elsewhere; some fundamental ideas guiding the development of mathematics over the course of the last century; and ongoing work continuing today.

This talk is part of the Rouse Ball Lectures series.

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