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SUMMARY:The Mathematics of Doodling - Professor Ravi Vakil (Stanford Unive
 rsity)
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CONTACT:Christelle Greaves
DESCRIPTION:Doodling has many mathematical aspects: patterns\, shapes\, nu
 mbers\, and more.  Not surprisingly\, there is often some sophisticated an
 d fun mathematics buried inside common doodles.  I'll begin by doodling\, 
 and see where it takes us.  It looks like play\, but it reflects what math
 ematics is really about:  finding patterns in nature\, explaining them\, a
 nd extending them.  By the end\, we'll have seen some important notions in
  geometry\, topology\, physics\, and elsewhere\; some fundamental ideas gu
 iding the development of mathematics over the course of the last century\;
   and ongoing work continuing today. 
LOCATION:Room 3\, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms\, 8 Mill Lane\, Cambridge
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