April 24, 2019
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Math Building 052
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Radical Pi Meeting - Tom Needham
Title: “What is the probability that a random triangle is obtuse?”
Speaker: Tom Needham (Ohio State University)
Abstract: In his 1895 book of mathematical puzzles, Lewis Carroll posed the following basic question in geometric probability: “What is the probability that a random triangle is obtuse?” The question is ill-posed, as one must choose a probability measure on the collection of all triangles. In this talk we will discuss various approaches to this question and demonstrate some surprising connections to differential geometry.
Math Building 052
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2019-04-24 17:00:00
2019-04-24 18:00:00
Radical Pi Meeting - Tom Needham
Title: “What is the probability that a random triangle is obtuse?”
Speaker: Tom Needham (Ohio State University)
Abstract: In his 1895 book of mathematical puzzles, Lewis Carroll posed the following basic question in geometric probability: “What is the probability that a random triangle is obtuse?” The question is ill-posed, as one must choose a probability measure on the collection of all triangles. In this talk we will discuss various approaches to this question and demonstrate some surprising connections to differential geometry.
Math Building 052
Department of Mathematics
math@osu.edu
America/New_York
public
Title: “What is the probability that a random triangle is obtuse?”
Speaker: Tom Needham (Ohio State University)
Abstract: In his 1895 book of mathematical puzzles, Lewis Carroll posed the following basic question in geometric probability: “What is the probability that a random triangle is obtuse?” The question is ill-posed, as one must choose a probability measure on the collection of all triangles. In this talk we will discuss various approaches to this question and demonstrate some surprising connections to differential geometry.