Events: detail
The importance of being peripheral
- Hosted by:
- Gresham College
- Speaker:
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John D Barrow FRS, Gresham Professor of Geometry
- Starts:
- November 25, 2008 at 01:00 pm
- Ends:
- November 25, 2008 at 02:00 pm
- Location:
- Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
The maths of surface and boundaries. Queen Dido’s problem. The importance of shape. Examples from the natural world where it pays to minimise you surface and others where it pays to maximise it. Animal behaviour: the shape of huddles and herds. Tactics of Atlantic convoys. Shoals of fish and swarms of midges. Advantages of sticking together or branching out. Fractals: Nature’s answer to the problem to being as superficial as possible.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
For more information
- Website:
- The importance of being peripheral
