Thursday, March 28, 2002 B106 Wells Hall:

• Abstract. I will describe a problem in elementary 3-dimennsional geometry whose formulation involves nothing more complicated than complex numbers and determinants. The problem concerns n distinct points in space and while the conjectured result has been verified by computer calculations for n < 20, it has only been proved mathematically for n = 3 and (very recently for n = 4). The conjecture for general n remains as a challenge to the enterprising student or professor!).
  

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