“Math with Bad Drawings: The Unlikely Friendship of Math and Science” with Ben Orlin

Fri Oct 19, 2018
6:00pm to 7:30pm ET
Age: 8 and up
Price: $12
Location:
National Museum of Mathematics
(212) 542-0566
11 East 26th Street, New York, NY, 10010
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Ben Orlin, math educator and author of Math with Bad Drawings, discusses how seemingly useless bits of pure mathematics often find surprising applications. How is it that, from knot theory to meta-logic to higher-dimensional geometry, the math that sounds the most fanciful turns out to be the most useful?

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