The Unlikely Friendship of Math and Science
Monday, October 29, 2018 at 7pm in Boehm 261
Speaker: Ben Orlin, the author of "Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality" as well as the blog https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/
Abstract: Math is supposed to be useful. And yet mathematicians are always chasing imaginary visions, abstractions divorced from reality. Could that possibly prove useful to science? Actually, yes. In a big way.
This talk is intended for undergraduate students, high school students, their families, and members of the community!
![Ben Orlin smiling in front of a chalkboard with mathematics](/Departments-Offices/M-R/Mathematics/Images/18-19/181029BenOrlin-33%28smaller%29.jpg)
!["Stuff where you use calculators- 'Get out of my box, science.' 'You're tripping, math. This is mine.'"](/Departments-Offices/M-R/Mathematics/Images/18-19/181029SeeEachOther2.jpg)
![The book "Math With Bad Drawings"](/Departments-Offices/M-R/Mathematics/Images/18-19/181029math%20with%20bad%20drawings.jpeg)
!["'Hey, math. Proteins keep folding into these crazy shapes. I can't make heads or tails of it. Suggestions?' 'Sounds like you need a bag of topology'"](/Departments-Offices/M-R/Mathematics/Images/18-19/181029SeeEachOther3.jpg)
![University map with Boehm Science Center circled](/Departments-Offices/M-R/Mathematics/Images/18-19/181029MapPoster.jpg)