When Triangles turn into Squares

Seminar: 
Yale Math Society
Event time: 
Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Speaker: 
Boris Bukh
Speaker affiliation: 
Carnegie Mellon University
Event description: 

What to do if the measurements that you took were corrupted by a malicious spy? We will see how the natural geometric approachto the problem leads to a geometry where lines are crooked, and triangles are square.