"A beautiful, living formula" (Public Lecture presented by Lee Kennard)

This public lecture is presented with support from the Conant 1879 Memorial Lectureship and the Robert 1931 and Ruth Fraser Fund. Pizza will be available at 6:30 P.M.

June 27, 2017
7 pm - 8 pm
Location
Kemeny Hall 008
Sponsored by
Mathematics Department
Audience
Public
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Carolyn Gordon

This public lecture is presented with support from the Conant 1879 Memorial Lectureship and the Robert 1931 and Ruth Fraser Fund. Pizza will be available at 6:30 P.M. for those attending the event.

Abstract:

In 1750, the famous mathematician Leonard Euler wrote down a simple yet powerful formula that now bears his name: $V - E + F = 2$. Like Einstein's famous equation, $E = mc^2$, it involves three letters and the number two, and it is also surprising. One difference is that Euler's formula is actually quite easy to prove.

In the centuries since it was first written down, meditations on the formula have led to vast generalizations and new fields of mathematics. It has also seen incredible applications, both to our physical world and to the mathematical sphere that stretches beyond it's borders.
Other applications are less important and yet irresistible in a lecture such as this. I hope you will join us.

Location
Kemeny Hall 008
Sponsored by
Mathematics Department
Audience
Public
More information
Carolyn Gordon