Summary
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications
2016
Session Number:A1L-A
Session:
Number:A1L-A-1
Math Spectacle Show
Jin Akiyama,
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Publication Date:2016/11/27
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Akiyama's Math Spectacle Show has intrigued and inspired people in numerous countries around the world. Not only has he been spreading the intellectual side of mathematics and it's usefulness to the general public, but his lectures also have a spirit of entertainment filled with humor and wit. The specific topics which will be delivered in the lecture are listed in the followings: 1. Create jigsaw puzzles from a regular tetrahedron. 2. Is this a rabbit or a duck? 3. A bird in a cage. 4. Spider changes to Geisha Girl. 5. It is a donkey or a dog? (Fig.3) 6. A big snake swallows a fox. 7. A pig does gymnastics on a horizontal bar. 8. Who is in the U.F.O? 9. Can two giant pandas live in the same house together? (Fig.1) 10. One type of atom fills space. 11. Why is a manhole cover round? 12. Can you drill a triangular hole? 13. Vehicles with strange wheels like bagels flattened along the edges. 14. How to pack cans efficiently? 15. Soap tells us is the minimum network connecting many cities. 16. A compact disk (CD) works well even if it is damaged. 17. Kidney stone will be cured without operation. 18. Volume and surface area of a sphere. (Fig.2) 19. Fortune-telling by Mobius bands. 20. Pythagorean Theorem and its applications.