Seminar series
Date
Tue, 17 Nov 2009
Time
14:30 -
15:30
Location
L3
Speaker
Imre Leader
Organisation
Cambridge
Given $n$ points in general position in the plane, how many of the triangles formed by them can contain the origin? This problem was solved 25 years ago by Boros and Furedi, who used a beautiful translation of the problem to a non-geometric setting. The talk will start with background, including this result, and will then go on to consider what happens in higher dimensions in the geometric and non-geometric cases.