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Friday, December 1

Activity

Brian Harbourne, University of Nebraska—Lincoln

Rational Amusements for a Winter Afternoon

Date:
Time:
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Location: Avery Hall
Abstract: In 1821 John Jackson published “Rational amusement for winter evenings or, A collection of above 200 curious and interesting puzzles and paradoxes”. At least one of these puzzles has led to open problems in combinatorics about line …
This event originated in Math Colloquia.