Wednesday, March 16, 2016 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Combinatorial Trigonometry (and a method to DIE for)
Speaker: Arthur T. Benjamin (Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College)
Hosted by Chris Butler
Abstract: Many trigonometric identities, including the Pythagorean theorem, have combinatorial proofs. Furthermore, some combinatorial problems have trigonometric solutions. All of these...