{"id":2490,"date":"2018-01-12T20:59:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T04:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2018-03-17T17:10:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T01:10:21","slug":"texas-tech-visiting-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/texas-tech-visiting-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech &#8211; Visiting Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20-21, IFF director Margaret Wertheim will be a visiting lecturer at <strong>Texas Tech<\/strong>. Wertheim will deliver a public talk: &#8220;How to Play Mathematics,&#8221; plus a workshop on &#8220;Making Hyperbolic Space&#8221; and engage in other activities with students and faculty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dsc0192.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2500\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dsc0192-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dsc0192-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dsc0192-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dsc0192-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Public Lecture: \u00a0<em>How to Play Mathematics<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to <em>know<\/em> mathematics? Usually we associate math with equations and think of it as the epitome of symbolic reasoning. Yet all around us simple organisms and objects are performing extraordinary pieces of mathematics. Sea slugs and corals realize in their anatomies hyperbolic geometry, a form that human mathematicians spent hundreds of years trying to prove impossible. Swooping towards a prey, a peregrine falcon executes a logarithmic spiral. Bouncing about a room, sounds waves enact the complexity of a Fourier Transform. Meanwhile African artisans discovered fractals centuries before European mathematicians and have long incorporated them into designs of cloth, pottery and village architecture. Islamic mosaicists, masters of geometrical construction, discovered <em>aperiodic<\/em> tilings more than 500 years before modern mathematicians. In this multidisciplinary talk, Margaret Wertheim will argue that mathematics isn\u2019t just something we do with our minds, it can also be engaged with through process of material exploration and play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> TTU Museum auditorium<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time: 6-7:30pm,<\/strong> followed by a reception 7:30-8:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Public and students welcome.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20-21, IFF director Margaret Wertheim will be a visiting lecturer at Texas Tech. Wertheim will deliver a public talk: &#8220;How to Play Mathematics,&#8221; plus a workshop on &#8220;Making Hyperbolic Space&#8221; and engage in other activities with students and faculty. Public Lecture: \u00a0How to Play Mathematics What does it mean to know mathematics? Usually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}