Math Explorations Ep31, Minimum spanning trees, Kruskal's algorithm (Apr 26, 2022)

This is a recording of a live class for Math 1015, Mathematics: An Exploration, an undergraduate course for non-technical majors at Fairfield University, Spring 2022.

The major topics are voting, gerrymandering, and graph theory. Handouts and homework are at the class website.

Past courses playlists:

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I’m a network administrator and deal with “spanning tree protocol” in network switching every day. It’s designed to detect and prevent closed loops (which would result in resource hogging feedback).