This course is intended for people who wish to learn about projective geometry. A strong background in mathematics is not required in order to participate in the class. High school and upper elementary school teachers, as well as others passionate about experiencing projective geometry, will discuss how geometry has evolved since the Greeks and the saga of Euclid’s postulate: Do two parallel lines ever meet?
Through drawings, the participants will discover the basic principles of projective geometry, including: perspectivity and projectivity, the principle of duality, polarity, line-wise and point-wise conics, the Theorems of Pascal, Brianchon, Desargues, Pappus, and the Fundamental Theorem of projective geometry.
There will be time for lecture and discussion, question and answer and, most enjoyable of all, attempting the amazing drawings that projective geometry lends itself to. We will also make space for singing and eurythmy.
This course will give participants an immersion in the imaginative world of projective geometry, while offering them the basic foundations of projective geometry through the construction of drawings.
Please bring straight-edge, T-square, compass, and good pencils to this course.
JAMIE YORK has taught high school mathematics at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, CO for eleven years, as well as at a Waldorf school in Holland and in math workshops for teachers across North America. A pioneer graduate of the Center for Anthroposophy’s Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program in Wilton, NH, Jamie has rejoined the program as its math specialist. He is the author of a series of books entitled Making Math Meaningful, which includes a math curriculum guide and math workbooks for each of the upper elementary grades.
