We are looking forward to seeing you at TMC next week. We will be having a lot of fun exploring ideas of geometry and space. We will also think about mathematics and how to start to work our way through confusion. We will start in 2D, looking at symmetry and aperiodic tilings, and how even here there is more mathematics than we can ever know! We will then look at how curving surfaces helps us to move up into three dimensions, building models with paper and zometool. To finish off we will take these ideas up beyond the visible dimensions, seeing how the leap from two to three dimensions can be used to understand things further up. By the end of the third sessions you should know a couple of facts about 134528291 dimensional space, or any other arbitrary number you might like!.
If you want to prepare for the workshop, the main thing to do is just to relax. Get ready to see what you might be able to understand from some pretty complex ideas!
If you want something more practical think about any aspects of mathematics that don’t make sense to you, or questions you have always had, or terms you have heard many times but don’t know what they mean. We will have time to talk about during the sessions. If you let me know ahead of time I can prepare a little, but we will also be able to handle most things on the day.
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