Mathematical Experiments

Senior Lecturer at the University of Oslo, Roger Antonsen, is an award winning provider of mathematics.

He communicates with words and images a subject normally associated with figures, showing how mathematics is about understanding the world, and invites everyone to see mathematics as a creative and beautiful.

For how to tie shoelaces as a mathematician?
And what does juggling have to do with mathematics?

Roger Antonsen is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, where he teaches, researches and leads the student laboratory Open Zone for Experimental Informatics. He completed his doctorate in Logic in 2008 and has since then worked actively with the communication of science. He is the project manager for Maker Faire Oslo and got The University Press Text Book Prize in 2013 for "Logical methods: The Art of Thinking Abstractly and Mathematically" (in Norwegian).

This talk is about how you can experiment with mathematics and why mathematics is one of the most creative activities there are. Here you will get to hear about what mathematics has to do with juggling, origami, art, Rubik's cube, roller coasters, chaos, games, and simulations of natural phenomena.

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Monday October 6, 2014 at 9:00 AM
Monday October 6, 2014 at 10:15 AM

Hadeland High School, Gran

Monday January 12, 2015 at 9:00 AM
Monday January 12, 2015 at 10:15 AM
Tuesday January 13, 2015 at 9:00 AM
Tuesday January 13, 2015 at 10:15 AM

Raufoss High School, Vestre Toten

Wednesday January 14, 2015 at 9:35 AM
Wednesday January 14, 2015 at 10:30 AM

Lena High School, Østre Toten

Thursday January 15, 2015 at 9:00 AM

Valle High School, Østre Toten

Thursday January 15, 2015 at 12:00 PM

Gjøvik High School, department prison

Friday January 16, 2015 at 9:00 AM

Gjøvik High School, Gjøvik

Monday January 19, 2015 at 8:40 AM
Monday January 19, 2015 at 10:10 AM
Tuesday January 20, 2015 at 8:40 AM
Tuesday January 20, 2015 at 10:10 AM

Lillehammer High School, department Nord

Wednesday January 21, 2015 at 9:00 AM
Wednesday January 21, 2015 at 10:15 AM

Lillehammer High School, department Sør

Thursday January 22, 2015 at 9:00 AM
Thursday January 22, 2015 at 10:15 AM
Friday January 23, 2015 at 9:00 AM

Gausdal High School, Gausdal

Monday February 2, 2015 at 10:00 AM

Lillehammer Learning, Lillehammer

Monday February 2, 2015 at 12:00 PM

Vinstra High School, Nord-Fron

Monday March 2, 2015 at 9:00 AM
Monday March 2, 2015 at 10:40 AM

Nord-Gudbrandsdal High School, department Lom, Lom

Wednesday March 4, 2015 at 10:00 AM

Dokka High School, Nordre land

Monday March 9, 2015 at 9:00 AM
Monday March 9, 2015 at 10:15 AM

Valdres High School, Nord-Aurdal

Tuesday March 10, 2015 at 11:55 AM
Tuesday March 10, 2015 at 1:05 PM