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SUMMARY:Dividing squares into triangles - Dr James Newton (King's College 
 London)
DTSTART:20190201T190000Z
DTEND:20190201T200000Z
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CONTACT:Valentin Hübner
DESCRIPTION:I will talk about Monsky's theorem\, which says that a square 
 cannot be divided into an odd number of triangles of equal area. The proof
  involves a weird (but fun) application of a non-archimedean distance func
 tion on the rational numbers\; I'll spend some portion of the talk explain
 ing what non-archimedean distance functions are and why they are as import
 ant (from some points of view) as the usual notion of distance between two
  numbers.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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