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Lasagne. What is it? Why is it? This talk seeks to obfuscate the answer to these questions.

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The Mathematics of Lasagne

Lasagne. What is it? Why is it? This talk seeks to obfuscate the answer to these questions.

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Abstract

We introduce a system for categorising foodstuffs based on the location of their starch content (The Cube Rule of Food Identification 1), give a brief introduction to Group Theory, then combine this knowledge to mathematically define Lasagne, and write a representation of it in Haskell.

Why does this exist?

As part of my role as an academic officer for the University of Warwick Computing Society in the 2023-24 academic year, I helped organise "Lightning Talks", which are "short (~20 minute) talks about anything and everything to do with computer science".

I wrote and delivered this talk as one of the Lightning Talks in the Michaelmas term of 2023. The slides 2 and source code 3 for this talk are available in this repository on GitHub, and a blog post on the topic is available on my website 4.

Footnotes

  1. https://cuberule.com/

  2. https://github.com/EdmundGoodman/The-Mathematics-of-Lasagne/files/13572864/The_Mathematics_of_Lasagne.pdf

  3. https://github.com/EdmundGoodman/The-Mathematics-of-Lasagne/blob/main/code/lasagne.hs

  4. https://edmundgoodman.co.uk/posts/2023/11/the-mathematics-of-lasagne/