Helen Barton Lecture Series: The Mathematics of Doodling

Doodling is a creative and fundamentally human activity, resulting in doodles iwth intricate and often hidden implicit structure. We will treat doodles as an example for how mathematics is done – by starting with some doodles, we will ask ourselves some natural questions and see where they take us. They will lead us to some unexpected places, and to some sophisticated mathematics.

Speaker: Professor Ravi Vakil
Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University 
President of the American Mathematical Society (February 1, 2025)
https://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/