Undergraduate Seminar (extra thursday lecture): When triangles turn square

Series
Other Talks
Time
Thursday, October 18, 2018 - 12:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Boris Bukh – Carnegie Mellon University – http://www.borisbukh.org/
Organizer
Lutz Warnke
What to do if the measurements that you took were corrupted by a malicious spy? We will see how the natural geometric approach to the problem leads to a geometry where lines are crooked, and triangles are square.