Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Series dates:
Wednesdays, 5:00 pm
Series venues:
Hovenden Room
Series Convenor:
Philip Beeley, Christopher Hollings, Yelda Nasifoglu and Benjamin Wardhaugh

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Events in this series

Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences: ‘“Black strokes upon white paper”: changing attitudes towards symbolic algebra from the nineteenth into the twentieth century’
17th January 2018 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences: ‘Justification of axioms: a neglected topic in the history of mathematics?’
24th January 2018 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences: ‘Gauss’s diary, Riemann’s Hypothesis, and Klein’s letters: the central archive for mathematics bequests in Göttingen’
31st January 2018 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences: ‘Insights into the long “genesis” of Dedekind’s lattice theory’
7th February 2018 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences: ‘Speaking, reading, writing and printing numbers in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England’
14th February 2018 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences: ‘Forms of proofs for algebraic equations in medieval China’
21st February 2018 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences: ‘Geometry and mathematics for the technical and visual arts at the turn of the sixteenth century’
28th February 2018 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences: ‘Reading mathematics in the eighteenth century: Montesquieu and young d’Alembert’
7th March 2018 5:00pm
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