Event time:
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 6:00pm
Location:
LOM206
Speaker:
Hee Oh
Speaker affiliation:
Yale
Event description:
An Apollonian circle packing is an ancient Greek construction which is made by repeatedly inscribing circles into the triangular interstices of four mutually tangent circles, via an old theorem of Apollonius of Perga (262-190 BC). After explaining constructions, I will introduce various geometric and arithmetic problems regarding these circle packings.