The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

 

Irish Branch

 

 

 

“Hooked on Polyhedra”

 

Mr. Gerard Cotty

 

(Fermoy)

 

on

 

Wednesday 18th June at  2.00 pm

 

at

 

NUI Maynooth

 

MS2, Top Logic, Logic House, South Campus

 

 

 

Gerard Crotty is one of Ireland’s renowned experts on Heraldry and among his many interests are polyhedra. The talk will examine regular and semi regular polyhedra, duality, stellation; compound of polyhedra; occurrences of polyhedra in nature – molecular structure (inorganic and biological); discovery of polyhedra and their use in technology.

 

 

Further information from:

 

Dr. Patricia Eaton, Branch Secretary.

 

Email: P.Eaton@stran.ac.uk

 

Tel: 028 90384445