Tomorrow - 11th September 2013 at 7.30pm - COME ALONG :) "The - TopicsExpress

Tomorrow - 11th September 2013 at 7.30pm - COME ALONG :) "The Kakeya Needle Problem" Professor Jon Bennett (University of Birmingham) In 1917 the Japanese Mathematician Soichi Kakeya raised a very simple question: what is the minimum area required to turn a line of length 1 through 180 degrees in the plane? In this lecture we discuss the very surprising answer to this question, and indicate how such problems have come to lie at the heart of modern mathematics.