The Math Club's Fall '97 talks

9/3 The Birthday Problem
Persi Dianconis
9/10 The Shape and the Size of the Universe in 40 Minutes
Graeme Bailey
9/17 An Exotic View of Plane Old Geometry (Exploring the Duality Between Points and Lines)
Joe Miller
9/24 Paradoxes in Set Theory
Reed Solomon
10/1 Proof as a Convincing Communication That Answers Why?
David Henderson
10/8 Splines: A Practicial Application of Abstract Mathematics
Hal Schenck
10/29 Hilbert's Third Problem: Scissors Congruence
Margaret Readdy
11/5 Troubled Bubbles Minimization Problems in the Plane
Michael LaRocque
11/12 A special Showing of 'The Nature of Things': A Tribute to Martin Gardner
11/19 The Blind Bartender's Problem
Richard Ehrenborg
12/3 What Do Game Theory, Mappings, Sound Reception, and Godel's Theorem have in Common?
Rahul Mehta, Grainne O'Neill, Lawerence Suen, Naoki Yoshihiro

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