Department of Mathematics Colloquium
|One of the fantastic bonuses that come from
interdisciplinary research is seeing your own field from a new
perspective. Through working with a mineralogist, I discovered a new,
concrete way to illustrate most of the basic theorems of group theory.
In this way, abstract theorems can be discovered through experience
rather than simply through a written record of what others have
discovered years ago. I will show how to use both virtual and physical
models to do this. Fun will be had by all.