Undergraduate Math Club
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 2:00pm
Malott 532
Abstract: In 1911, Toeplitz conjectured that any simple closed curve in lR2 inscribes a square. 107 years later I gave a suspiciously vague talk on some of my ideas for why any two simple closed curves inscribe a parallelogram between them and how it’s connected to finding a ring on a string. In this talk, I will present a proof that we may always find parallelograms between curves, alongside a definition of what exactly that means, and argue that this problem is equivalent to a natural generalization of the square peg problem to two curves.
There will be refreshments (cookies, juice).
Poster - Alex Black →