Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013
Location: 3096 East Hall (3:00 PM to 4:00 PM)
Title: From Pascal's Theorem to Constructible Curves
Abstract: When he was 16 years old, Blaise Pascal extended a famous geometric result due to Pappus (4th century A.D.). Pascal's theorem and Pappus's theorem have been the inspiration for a lot of nice mathematics. We'll review their results and extend their theorems to higher degree curves. I'll discuss connections to linkage and secant varieties, and I'll give a new theorem on elliptic curves. This is joint work with Mike Roth (Queen's University).
Speaker: Will Traves
Institution: US Naval Academy
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