The twenty-fifth Virtual Encounter with Outstanding Mathematicians took place on Friday, August 13th, 2021 from 12 pm until 1 pm. as our invited speaker. Dr. Lilia P. Ake, Researcher in Educational Mathematics at the Autonomous University of Queretaro in Mexico, was our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
On this twenty-fifth Encounter, Dr. Lilia P. Ake shared anecdotes of her personal life and her professional journey as a female mathematician, in which she highlighted how she came to be interested in educational mathematics. The speaker also presented on “Patterns: From Preschool to Jedi Master,” in which she shared examples of patterns in nature (for example, in zebras, in a spider web, in a honeycomb, in fish scales, in pineapples…), in art (for example, in the works of art of M.C. Escher) and in decoration (for example, in the tessellations and mosais of La Alhambra). Dr. Lilia P. Ake also presented several examples of figure, geometric and numerical patterns.
