Abstract: This will be a gentle discussion about my favorite theorem, Poncelet’s Porism. My goal is to provide intuition about the content of this theorem by focusing on a special case involving triangles. I’ll introduce spherical and hyperbolic geometry and discuss an application of the Porism in spaces of constant curvature. I will also explain…Continue Reading Grad Student Talk: An Infinite Family of Triangles
Activity: Reading What Was Written
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T-Shirt Competition
Instructions: 1. Create a T-shirt design for Math Club using CustomInk’s Design Lab. 2. Make sure to use Math Club’s logo somewhere in your deign. 3. Save your design, copy the sharable link, and submit the form below. 4. Competition closes on October 31. 2020. 5. There will be one winner. Voting happens the first…Continue Reading T-Shirt Competition
Activity: Quiz Bowl
Join us as we run a math-themed quiz bowl-ish event! The rules of the competition will be laid out by our secretary Marc at the start, followed by a trial round. We will then proceed to three rounds of questions, each round more difficult than the last, each correct response giving 15, 30, and…Continue Reading Activity: Quiz Bowl
Activity: Where Children’s Drawings Lie
Join our Vice President Julian Michele as he walks us through some math related to his thesis. The activity will be accessible to everyone, and everyone is welcome to join!…Continue Reading Activity: Where Children’s Drawings Lie
Faculty Talk: The Rationality of Irrationals
Abstract: When I was in my freshman year at Stony Brook, a friend of mine was perplexed by an interesting question. Suppose we enumerate the rationals on the interval [0,1] in the “standard” way in which the denominators increase: 0, 1, 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 1/4, 3/4, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5, 1/6, 5/6, 1/7, … Suppose…Continue Reading Faculty Talk: The Rationality of Irrationals
Activity: Hexaflexagons
Join us as we have some fun with hexaflexagons, fun little objects you can get by folding pieces of paper. Ajmain Yamin will lead the activity, greatly inspired by Fleron et. al’s book Art & Sculpture and Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions. Materials needed for the activity: Paper (8.5 by 11 in) Scissors Glue stick /…Continue Reading Activity: Hexaflexagons