The Mathematics of the Football
By Fernando Rodriguez Villegas
- Categories: Math
I gave some version of this lecture on the Mathematics of the football/soccer ball several times, in different places and in various languages.
- Florence 20/05/2024
- Gonit Sora (online) 14/06/2021
Form their website:
Gonit Sora is a multi lingual (English and Assamese) web magazine devoted to publishing well written and original articles related to science in general and mathematics in particular.
One of its founders and current editor is Manjil P. Saikia, a former ICTP Diploma student, who invited me to give this online talk.
Abstract: How to build something spherical out of pieces all of roughly the same shape? This problem concerns the structure of balls for many games, special molecules, domes and viruses. In this talk we will discuss some of the geometry that these structures share and how the constraints imposed by physical space lead to similar solutions.
- Polo di Trieste (online, in Italian) 20/11/2020
“La geometria della palla di calcio”