Mathematics, a tool to grasp reality

25.05.2016, 11.00  –  Haus 9, Raum 2.22
Arbeitsgruppenseminar Analysis

Christian Mercat, Université de Lyon

There is no need to wait for Partial Differential Equations to introduce students to modeling. Every object in mathematics has been introduced to solve a problem and many elementary mathematics can be presented as tools to grasp some aspects of reality. We will present some of them, especially graph theory applied to knots drawing.