When triangles turn square

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Abstract

What to do if the measurements that you took were corrupted by a malicious spy?  We will see how the natural geometric approach to the problem leads to a geometry where lines are crooked, and triangles are square.

Bio
http://www.borisbukh.org/

Description

Mathematics Tomorrow guest lecture
October 20
12:00pm
WXLR A113

Speaker

Boris Bukh
Professor
Carnegie Mellon University

Location
WXLR A113