After the last lecture, the class
holds a maths picnic where everyone is
asked to bring a food that symbolises
something we learnt about in the
course. In addition to the pictures
below, the Spring 2011 class had hyperbolic pretzel
crisps, prismic Toblerone, knotted
pretzels, "Thousand Hills" wine,
Fibonacci pineapples and spherically
packed oranges. As you can see, we had
lots of fun! (Click on the pictures to
get bigger versions.)
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| ...and cutting a bagel into some sort of non-orientable surface (I think!). |
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| From Lecture 2, the founder of calculus in chocolate biscuit form. |
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| From Lecture 7, topologically distinct doughnuts. |
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| All manner of toroidal food, including onion rings, party rings, jammy dodgers and mini rolls. |
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| From Lecture 9, the Normal Distribution. |
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| Sadly there was no square pie to be found, so this is mb2. |
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| A different cupcake for every week of the course, plus sheep! |
The cupcakes were so amazing they deserved extra close-up photos.
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| Imaginary cupcake |
Another imaginary cupcake |
Binary cupcake |
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| Irrational cupcake |
Integrating cupcake |
Converging cupcake |
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| Area-finding cupcake |
Infinite cupcake |
Non-Euclidean cupcake |
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| Game theory cupcake |
Bar-chart cupcake |
Normally distributed cupcake |
