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An Extremely Short Proof of the Hairy Ball Theorem with Peter McGrath
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- Boston Computation Club
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- Apr 18, 2026
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- 3506
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Summary
Today Peter McGrath An Extremely Short Proof of the Hairy Ball Theorem . Peter is a professor of mathematics at NC State, where he researches geometric analysis, minimal surfaces, PDEs. Today's talk was an elegant presentation of the classical result -- Peter makes it accessible, and explains each concept in a clear and transparent manner. This was a really fun talk and really back to our roots as a group, doing pure math on an iPad and loving it! We hope you enjoy the talk as much as we did!