The Preliminaries

• Title of talk: The Topology of Our University; Put a Twist in your Local Geometry.
• Keith the Complex Number
• Michigan: Where am I coming from? (note preposition at sentence end)!

Essential Background

• Quiz
• Answers Questioned
• Questions Answered
  1. Berrien Co. Math & Science Center
  2. Unique half day program on a college campus
  3. classes taught by "regular faculty involved in research"
• Strong interest in topology.
  1. Before Kindergarten told would be mathematician
     (and wife knows math is first love)
  2. QCD is relativistic quantum mechanics, didn't formally get to the theory of everything with it's 14 dimensions, etc.
  3. caver (not spelunker)
• Science-Religion Conflict.
  1. Students often brain-dead or have all the answers
  2. Our church has 27 Fundamental Theorems
  3. Firm believer in Scientific Method
• Geometry Specific.
  1. Douglas Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach
  2. Gödel, A Life of Logic
  3. Greatest Mathematician of 20^th Century
• Topology Specific.

  Activities

• Activities.
  1. Activity 1
  2. Activity 2
  3. Activity: 4T 4K 4KT

• e-mail: calkins@andrews.edu
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• Copyright ©2002, Keith G. Calkins. Revised on or after February 28, 2002.