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April 30
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April 16
The Geometry of Apportionment
The Constitution of the United States
says that apportionment of congressional representatives
to a state should be proportional to its population.
If taken literally, this would mean
giving fractional representatives, so some method
of converting fractions to whole numbers must be used.
Various methods of doing this have been used over the years.
Historically each of these has led to surprising paradoxes and bitter
disputes.
Geometry can help us understand what can happen.
March 26
Freeman Dyson's Challenge for the Future.
Speaker:Prof. Ken Ono. When: Monday, Mar. 26, 3:30 p.m. Where: Room B139 Van Vleck. March 12
Pi Day in 2 days!
Come for a talk about pi!
December 11
End of Semester Party!
Come for our end of
semester party, and planning for Spring 2007 events!
December 4
Polynomials least deviating from zero.
Speaker:Prof. Serguei Dennisov When: Monday, December 4, 3:30 p.m. Where: Room B321 Van Vleck. November 27
The game of Set: geometry, number theory, maybe
a little analysis.
Bring a deck of Set cards if you have one!
November 20
Cool Math Things.
Learn some cool math tricks/theorems! Bring your own
theorems to share with all!
November 13
Discussion of Spring 2007
math courses.
When: Monday, Nov. 13, 4:35 p.m. Where: Room 901 Van Vleck November 6
Infinity.
Speaker:Derek Moffit When: Monday, Nov. 6, 4:35 p.m. Where: Room 901 Van Vleck October 30
Topology and the
Poincare Conjecture.
We will look at some basic topology
of manifolds, and give some indication of what the
Poincare Conjecture is about. This is a very
famous problem with long history, and its recent
solution by Perelman has caused quite a stir in
mathematics!
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