UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle

1/15/2017 -- High School II: Pair of Pants Decompositions

For our first meeting of the quarter, we'll use some topology to try to understand the answer to the question: if you sew a bunch of pants together so that there are no holes, then cut them back apart so that there are no pockets, how many pants do you get?

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