John Horton Conway

Numberphile maintains an interesting collection of youtube videos. We will watch one in Math Seminar on February 9, 2022. It is a tribute to J H Conway in the form of a podcast with animations. J. Lagarias, The 3x+1 problem and its generalizations, Amer. Math....

The Mathematics of Origami

An origami construction that allows us to trisect an angle, a key functionality needed to construct the cube root of a length and construct a solution to the cube doubling problem. As a child, I was, for a very long time, quite interested in the art of origami...