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Eclipse Fever

October 12, 2017

20915599_10213851430588699_3303408301606256514_nClemson was in the path of totality for this year’s amazing solar eclipse, and the weather was perfect for the event. The university hosted a large number of events and the Mathematical Sciences Department was no exception. Many people in the department got out to view the eclipse.

 

 

 

 

 

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Professor Jim Coykendall kept the crowd stimulated with interesting mathematics.

 

 

 

 

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Jim Coykendall representing the department and entertaining the crowd, and he gave a special Math Club lecture on the mathematics of eclipses the following week.

 

 

 

 

[photographs courtesy of April Haynes]