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. These are the imaginative
offerings from the Spring 2012 class!
(Click on the pictures to get bigger
versions.)
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| From across all the lectures, an assortment of different mathematical symbols on cupcakes. Do you know what they all mean? |
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| From Lecture 1, the plane of complex numbers. Clearly superior to a Real Line cake. |
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| From Lecture 1 and the story of numbers, cupcakes with Hundreds and Thousands on them. |
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| From Lecture 3, Singleton whisky. A 'singleton set' is a set with only one element in it. |
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| From Lecture 6, biscuits composed of 4 triangles, which can be put together to make an awesome fractal Sierpinski mega-biscuit. |
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| From Lecture 6, Butterfly cakes inspired by The Butterfly Effect of chaos theory. |
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| From Lecture 7, a topologically non-trivial pretzel. |
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| Also from Lecture 7, cheesy puff pastry in a geometrically interesting shape. Despite its curviness, the spirals are still intrinsically flat! |
