Spring 2024 MTCA Workshop #1

Thursday, January 25, 2024

6-8 pm

PMA 12.166

Samuel Payne
Magic of the Moment

After discovering the mathematical law of levers and moments, Archimedes famously declared: “Give me a long enough lever and a firm place to stand, and I can move the world.” Remarkably, he used this law not only for feats of engineering but also for pure mathematical discovery. In this activity, we will retrace Archimedes’s method of physical reasoning and his ingenious choices of balanced configurations of shapes and solids to recover his miraculous calculation of the volume of a sphere nearly two thousand years before the invention of calculus. (Archimedes so loved this calculation that he requested the result be inscribed on his tombstone!) 

We validate campus parking and provide dinner, and participants earn CPE hours (TEA approved) for this workshop.

Register by noon on 1/24 here.

Free parking is provided in the Speedway Garage (SWG). Enter the garage on Speedway, between Dean Keaton and 27th street. Pull a ticket when you enter the garage. We will give participants cards to exit.