Professors David Aulicino and Patrick Hooper He joined our collaboration and we completed the classification. I was explaining to him all of these problems, and for him, he was able to work right through them. Pat (Hooper) and I have known each other for years and we'd catch up with each other during weekly seminars at the GC. We had hit a wall and couldn't get past the technical and computational challenges that we faced. The Graduate Center: What sparked your collaboration and exploration?Īulicino: Jayadev (Athreya) and I had found the closed trajectory on the dodecahedron and we were trying to classify all of the trajectories. Working with Professor Patrick Hooper (GC/City College, Mathematics), they achieved a second breakthrough, coming up with 31 different types of trajectories around the dodecahedron.Īulicino and Hooper spoke to The Graduate Center about their collaboration and their breakthrough. Professors David Aulicino (GC/Brooklyn College, Mathematics) and Jayadev Athreya (University of Washington) showed that the challenge can be solved for dodecahedrons (which look like 12-sided dice), but not for the other Platonic solids (cubes, tetrahedrons, octahedrons, and icosahedrons). The challenge involved charting a straight-line trajectory around 3D shapes known as Platonic solids, starting and ending from the same vertex while avoiding all other vertices. But CUNY mathematicians who solved a classic problem saw their work featured by VICE and Wired, and they even earned a tweet from former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. Geometry research doesn’t often get covered by mainstream news. ![]()
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