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LivMS Popular Lecture – Online event
18 November 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Free- Date: 18 Nov, 2021
- Time: 17:00-18:00
- Presenter: Chris Pritchard
- Title: Great Mathematical Diagrams
- Audience: Year 11 up
- Venue: TBC (either in-person or online depending on circumstances)
- Registration: Via the Eventbrite page for the event
- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/great-mathematical-diagrams-tickets-169822771481
- Contact: Peter Giblin
Chris Pritchard is the 2021-22 President of the Mathematical Association.
The talk is a journey through mathematical diagrams, some famed for their importance and longevity, some critical for the information they convey and many of them just plain clever. Join me for a look at a range of visual material from the Bride’s Chair of Euclid’s Elements to the Königsberg bridges and from Playfair’s pie chart to Anscombe’s salutary lesson, whilst also enjoying some “proofs without words” which can be deployed profitably in the classroom.
