When:
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Lunt Hall, 105, 2033 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Aaron Brown
(847) 491-3738
Group: Department of Mathematics: Colloquium
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Title: Incidence Geometry and Tiled Surfaces
Abstract: We show that various classical theorems of linear incidence geometry, such as the theorems of Pappus, Desargues, Möbius, and so on, can be interpreted as special cases of a general result that involves a tiling of a closed oriented surface by quadrilateral tiles. This yields a general mechanism for producing new incidence theorems and generalizing the known ones.
This is joint work with Pavlo Pylyavskyy (University of Minnesota).