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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 3:20pm

Hal M. Switkay

West Chester University

Location

West Chester University

UNA 155

Tea in the Students Lounge after the talk.

We consider the engagement of the senses in the process of communicating and learning the abstractions of mathematics. Examples are provided from the history of mathematics continuing through current developments, including Markov processes, analytic geometry, statistics, decision theory, 24-dimensional geometry, and the musical representation of groups. This talk should be easily accessible to undergraduates.