How to fold things into thirds, sevenths, and thirty-sevenths!
Speaker: James Tanton
Date: Fri, May 14, 2021
Location: Online, Zoom
Conference: Changing the Culture 2021, Changing the Culture
Subject: Mathematics
Class: Scientific, Educational
Date: Fri, May 14, 2021
Location: Online, Zoom
Conference: Changing the Culture 2021, Changing the Culture
Subject: Mathematics
Class: Scientific, Educational
Abstract:
Come with something floppy in hand--a string, a shoelace, a tie, or perhaps a floppy zucchini. Not only will we fold the object into strange fractional lengths, but we’ll also see how folding it into fractions leads to famous unsolved mathematics! Can you solve an unsolved problem?
