Math Colloquia: Monte Boisen, University of Idaho

Thursday, October 27 2011 at 3:30 PM

Location: TLC 030

"Making the abstract concrete"
ABSTRACT: One of the fantastic bonuses that come from interdisciplinary research is seeing your own field from a new perspective. Through working with a mineralogist, I discovered a new, concrete way to illustrate most of the basic theorems of group theory. In this way, abstract theorems can be discovered through experience rather than simply through a written record of what others have discovered years ago. I will show how to use both virtual and physical models to do this. Fun will be had by all.

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