The Math Club is holding a fundraiser on Pi Day, 3/14, 4-6pm at OBC in Orono to raise funds for the club. We will be selling baked goods, including pies. Stop by for pie, pi-related activities, or just to hang out and kick off your spring break! You are welcome and encouraged to donate baked […]
Title: High Dimensional Spheres Location: 204 Neville Hall In the spirit of pi day week, I will describe some counterintuitive features of spheres in higher dimensions. For example, if denotes the volume of the unit sphere in , i.e., the sphere of radius 1, then: These seem to be growing with n, but this is […]
Title: The Arrowverse: What is a Category in Mathematics? In mathematics, similar phenomena can occur in different contexts. Often these can be expressed by diagrams of arrows. Sometimes to understand a mathematical object, one can examine a related object in a different setting. Category Theory provides a a framework that can help us formalize these […]
