Math Encounters: “Shaping Surfaces” with Chaim Goodman-Strauss at the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath)

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    When:
    December 3, 2014 all-day
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    National Museum of Mathematics
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    Math Encounters: "Shaping Surfaces" with Chaim Goodman-Strauss at the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) @ New York | New York | United States

    Math Encounters: “Shaping Surfaces” with Chaim Goodman-Strauss

    National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath)

    Wednesday, December 3, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

    Nature melds living surfaces from the geometry of curvature.  Corals, leaves, lichens – even membranes and ears – all living surfaces are shaped through exquisite control over this intrinsic geometry, even as those surfaces flex, twist and grow.  Explore fundamental topological principles with mathematician Chaim Goodman-Strauss, and see the surprising beauty and simplicity of the underlying principles that control the geometry of surfaces.

    Free admission; registration required.