Stfx Math/Stats Dept

UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow uses fractals to study erosion UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Therese Basa Landry will be using her expertise in fractal geometry

today!

Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell — who died on this day in 1922 — goes to kiss his wife Mabel while she stands in one of his spectacular tetrahedral kites. See more of these wonderful creations (and the kiss realised) in our post here: https://buff.ly/360utV2

Counted Out - finally, a chance to see the movie for free! https://mailchi.mp/mathforlove/counted-out-free-virtual-viewing-opportunity

Celebrating the birth of Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton

Celebrating Hamilton's birthday, we have Quaternion plaque on Brougham (Broom) Bridge, Dublin, which says:

"Here as he walked by on the 16th of October 1843 Sir William Rowan Hamilton in a flash of genius discovered the fundamental formula for
quaternion multiplication i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = −1 & cut it on a stone of this bridge".