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Fifth - 2007
The Fifth Annual Preskenis Dinner Meeting was held on Wednesday, May 2,
2007. Dr. Colin Adams, Williams College, gave a
presentation
titled "Blown Away: What Knot to Do When Sailing -- By Sir Randolph
Bacon III, cousin-in-law to Colin Adams".
Dr. Adams is the 1996 winner of the NES/MAA Award for Distinguished
College or University Teaching and the 1998 winner of the MAA's Deborah
and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University
Teaching of Mathematics.
Abstract: Being a tale of adventure on the high seas involving
great risk to the tale teller, and how an understanding of the
mathematical theory of knots saved his bacon. No nautical or
mathematical background assumed.
Dinner Meeting
Program
We thank Sodexho, Key College Publishing, Pearson
Prentice Hall, Pearson Addison-Wesley/Benjamin Cummings,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Jones and Bartlett Publishers
for their support of the 2007 NES/MAA Dinner Meeting in Memory of
Kenneth J. Preskenis.
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