Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 12:30--1:50pm
What Would Archimedes Do?
Daniel Finkel
Since ancient times mathematics has developed such powerful tools that it's easy to forget the elegant ideas of great thinkers from the past. In this talk we will revisit some of their simplest and most profound arguments, which predate calculus by thousands of years... but also anticipate it, and suggest proofs for more modern extensions. Also featured is Lyndon LaRouche's favorite proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.
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dfinkel [at] math [dot] washington [dot] edu