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Maths of Planet Earth Public Lecture
Lectures at Federation Square
Maths goes to the movies
Speakers: Burkard Polster
(Monash University)
and Marty Ross (itinerant mathematician)
Date & Time: 12:00–1:00 pm, Friday 15 November 2013
This will be a truly unforgettable maths class.
You’ll sing and dance to Pythagoras, solve puzzles with Bruce Willis and be given lessons by Lisa Simpson, Russell Crowe and a host of other stars.
Come learn some amazing mathematics, some real and some hilariously wrong.
About the speakers
Burkard Polster is a maths lecturer, and Monash University’s resident mathemagician, mathematical juggler, origami expert, bubble-master, shoelace charmer, and Count von Count impersonator.
When he is not doing fun mathematics he has fun investigating perfect mathematical universes.
Marty Ross is a mathematical nomad. At the age of 2, he ran away from America to join the circus. After some controversy involving an elephant, he returned to America to do his PhD in mathematics at Stanford University. Eventually, he arrived back in Australia, where he has wandered the mathematical world, aimless but happy.
For further events in the Maths of Planet Earth Festival of Mathematics at Fed Square,
held by The Mathematical Association of Victoria, please visit this page or AMSI.
Registration: Booking is essential.
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