When: 
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 - 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Where: 
Pardee 217
Presenter: 
Gary Gordon and Liz McMahon
Price: 
Free & there will be pizza and beverages!

The card game SET® is played with a special deck of 81 cards. There is quite a lot of mathematics that can be explored using the game. We'll look at questions in combinatorics, probability, linear algebra, and especially geometry. The deck is an excellent model for the finite affine geometry AG(4,3) and provides an entry to surprisingly beautiful structure theorems for that geometry. If you'd like some practice before the talk, go to www.setgame.com for the rules and a Daily Puzzle. [The speakers and their daughters are the authors of a book that was recently published on this topic!]

Sponsored by: 
Department of Mathematics

Contact information

Name: 
c. jayne trent
Phone: 
610-330-5267
Email: 
trentj@lafayette.edu