Yes great stuff BUT sad that the you tube postings of the presentations
suck and are un-viewable due to poor camera work ( I have emailed Ruth
for a copy of her power point presentation and will post it when I get it )
There is also a fascinating guy on a similar program called Martin
Golubitsky http://www.maa.org/news/090508mg.html and
http://www.math.uh.edu/~mg/ discussing " Patterns Patterns Everywhere "
which will blow your socks of ( Sadly same problem as Ruth's with the
camera work and ditto with the powerpoint posting if he will send it to
me.)
I heard a lecture or interview of his once in which he says /" Its
especially important to realize that most models are just theories which
may have no connection to anything in real life except in the mind of
the modeler "/ Just about says it all.
( : ( : pete
Peter Baston
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From the Internet Scout....
*Ruth Charney on Modeling with Cubes [Macromedia Flash Player]*
http://www.maa.org/news/102308charney.html
The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) continues to build on
their already solid online presence with the addition of this lecture
by noted mathematician and scholar Professor Ruth Charney. This
particular lecture was given at the MAA's Carriage House Conference
Center in the fall of 2008 and it deals with how cubes can be used to
represent a variety of systems. As Charney notes, "The geometry of
these spaces is strange, complicated, and a lot of fun to study."
Visitors to the site can watch several particularly lucid examples
from Charney's talk, read her biography, and also read a detailed
interview with her conducted by Michael Pearson. [KMG]
<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&view=page&name=gp&ver=sh3fib53pgpk#11d532fd493691f2_team>
tj
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