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Geometry, Greed, Games, And 'Roids, James Oxley
Geometry, Greed, Games, And 'Roids, James Oxley
Dalrymple Lecture Series
A three-legged stool doesn’t wobble. But four-legged stools often teeter because the tips of their legs don’t lie in the same plane.
This phenomenon of dependent sets, first theorized 75 years ago, is the focus of the 16th Dalrymple Lecture in Mathematics, set for 5:30 p.m. Friday (May 21) at the University of Mississippi. James Oxley, who holds an alumni professorship at Louisiana State University, is to deliver the address, which is free and open to the public in the Student Union Ballroom.
“There is some beautiful and intriguing mathematics that arises from some natural problems in geometry and network …