Visit from Her Excellency Ms. Judit Pach, Ambassador of Hungary to Singapore

NUS President Professor Tan Eng Chye hosted a visit from Her Excellency Ms Judit Pach, Hungarian Ambassador to Singapore on 3rd December 2021. During the visit, Ambassador Pach presented a Gömböc to NUS on behalf of its inventor and Hungarian mathematician Professor Gábor Domokos. This fascinating gift, to be displayed at the Department of Mathematics, has very interesting mathematical properties – it is a convex three-dimensional homogeneous object with exactly one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium. What’s more – the donated Gömböc bears the serial number 1905 – the year in which NUS was founded.

The Department of Mathematics also hosted a separate visit on 7th December 2021 for Ambassador Pach and Professor Kostya Novoselov, NUS Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor who had helped to make the connection between Professor Domokos and the department on the donation of the Gömböc,

The Department of Mathematics is thankful to Professor Gábor Domokos for this meaningful and befitting gift.

Source: NUS Math