linked circles puzzle

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比利时vs摩洛哥足彩 ,
university of california san diego

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food for thought seminar

oded yacobi

ucsd, graduate student

abstract:

using disjoint circles and a single straight line, can you fill up 3-space in such a way that each pair of circles is linked, and the line passes through the interior of each circle? we investigate a solution to this via an elementary construction of a hopf fibration.

march 13, 2008

11:00 am

ap&m b412