$\vec{w}h\alpha\mathfrak{t}\;\; i\mathbb{S}\ldots$

the length of a potato?


Who?
Josué Tonelli Cueto (TU Berlin)
When?
2017/01/27, 13:00
Before the BMS Friday Colloquium by Prof. Monika Ludwig
Where?
Urania Berlin, at the BMS Loft (3rd floor)
About what?

It's clear what someone means when E refers to the volume or the area of a potato, but if this same person starts to talk about its length, a sensible doubt about the meaningfulness of this concept arises. In this talk we will see how the length of a potato is a meaningful concept by introducing the so-called intrinsic volumes and reviewing some of their main properties. Note: Title stolen from one article of Schanuel.