3 pm, Tuesday 2nd March, 2004
M345 (Mathematics Building, 3rd Floor)
What is the best way to lace your shoes?
Dr Burkard Polster
School of Mathematical Sciences
Monash University
All the mysteries of shoelace mathematics finally revealed! Find out about the shortest and strongest ways to lace your shoes, why your shoelaces come undone all the time, what to do with broken shoelaces, and what it all has to do with monkeys and salesmen.
Convenor: Simon Clarke.