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Miroslav Lovric

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Miroslav Lovric

Professor Miroslav Lovric


Life's too short for long division

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 … caught you!

Were you staring at those numbers trying to make some sense of them? Have you guessed the next number in the sequence?

Mathematics is everywhere around us. Whether it’s guessing the tax on the purchase we are about to make, calculating our body mass index, reading the sports stats page in a newspaper, figuring out how much paint we should buy to paint the bedrooms or trying to solve that Sudoku puzzle – we cannot avoid using numbers.

This lecture will suggest ways of thinking about mathematics that we can all embrace and apply in our everyday situations. Although there seems to be just too much math to learn, Professor Lovric will convince you that a few basic concepts will significantly enhance your understanding of a whole variety of problems that are mathematical in nature.

The math that we need in our lives is – quite often – not what we have been taught in school. Professor Lovric will encourage participants to think about math in a new way – not as an object of fear and frustration (or bad memories) – but as a useful and creative new friend, that will help us make sense of many things.

… and the answer to that math teaser is 34 … each number is the sum of the 2 numbers preceding it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Miroslav Lovric is an associate professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at McMaster University. His areas of research interest include differential geometry and applications, and, recently, mathematics education and connections between art, mathematics and architecture.

Miroslav has been involved with various aspects of teaching, from lecturing in the Faculty of Science and in the Arts and Science Programme, to developing inquiry, problem-solving and teacher training courses. He has given numerous public lectures on a wide variety of topics that link mathematics to everyday life, also to art, architecture and other areas of human endeavour. He has taught at universities in Canada, U.S., England and New Zealand.

Miroslav is a co-leader of an international project in mathematics education, whose aim is to develop efficient strategies for dealing with issues in the transition between secondary and tertiary education. He is also involved in a project to develop useful and creative ways of using media to enhance learning and appreciation of mathematics.

Besides publishing in his research areas, Miroslav wrote a textbook on vector calculus that has been used in universities across North America and Europe. Presently, he is working on a book on mosaics, which will connect mathematical ideas of symmetry with a number of concepts in art and design.

Miroslav has received numerous awards for his efforts in teaching and mathematics education, both from his students and from his peers. In 2000, he received the OCUFA (Ontario provincial) award. In 2001, he was awarded the National 3M Teaching Fellowship Award. For his contributions to teaching and course development at McMaster, Miroslav has received two President’s awards, most recently in 2004.

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This is a free public lecture.
All are welcome!

Tuesday April 11, 2006
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Lecture begins at 7 p.m.
Hamilton Specator Auditorium
To reserve your seat:

e-mail sciencecity@mcmaster.ca
Or by phone 905-525-9140, extension 24934

 

 

 
 
 
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