May Meeting: Knots, Stars and Strips

by | Apr 25, 2015 | Uncategorized

  This month we’ll continue with April’s experiments with the Mobius strip. Mathematicians are often secretly Platonists: we distinguish between a universal object and how we’ve chosen to describe or present it. We looked at a little of this...

April Meeting: Stars and Strips

by | Apr 1, 2015 | Uncategorized

Sorry about the late notice, everyone! It’s the curse of April. This month we are lucky to have Dr. Andy Raich from the Department of Mathematical Sciences leading a discussion of shape and topology. We’ll play around with some paper shapes and get some...