Date:
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Location:
219 Whitehall Classroom Building
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Anna Marie Bohmann, Northwestern University
You may have encountered the concept of Euler characteristic when thinking about soccer balls or Euclidean solids. We'll discuss counting and Euler characteristic: counting points, counting potatoes, and counting holes. We will then approach the Euler characteristic from the perspective a topologist by trying to understand it via its properties rather than by explicitly counting--after all, even mathematicians can only count so high in practice!
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