Sometimes Pi Equals 4 (Prof. Cornelia van Cott, University of San Francisco)
Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Sometimes Pi Equals 4 Speaker: Cornelia van Cott, Department of Mathematics, University of San Francisco Abstract: Most of your mathematical life, you've known that pi is a number somewhere between 3.1 and 3.2. But if we exchange the usual notion of distance in two-dimensional space for others, pi can be any of an infinite number […]