Graduate Student

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17:10 on Thursday April 09, 2015
18:00 on Thursday April 09, 2015
BA6180, Bahen Center, 40 St. George St.
Özgür Esentepe

University of Toronto

We will talk about several topics covered in Euclid's Elements starting with a discussion on the very first definitions, postulates and common notions. We will translate some of them from Ancient Greek together, including the definition of parallel lines.

Travelling back and forth in time, we will also have a closer look on the arithmetic of line segments, axioms for incidence as well as some more algebraic and combinatorial problems.

Reminder: pizza is provided at the seminar and there will be a pub-night afterwards, subsidized by the MGSA