Original upload date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:39:52 GMT
What is beautiful to you? We asked Michael Dorff, BYU Math Department chair and the “president-elect of math” (he’s next in line to head up the Math Association of America). His answer: soap bubbles,
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and how they demonstrate the fastest route between four points in space—and hyperspace.
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Read Dorff's recent BYU devotional, where he talks more about finding beauty in mathematics: https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/michael-j-dorff_seeing-things-differently/
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