Mathematics in the Enlightenment
Mathematics in the Enlightenment
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This day will explore the mathematics of the Enlightenment (c.1650-c.1800), a period also called the Age of Reason, in which mathematical thought and a belief in logic underpinned the European World view. While algebraic methods became dominant as a mathematical language during the period, mathematics was applied to a wide range of topics, such as architecture, the law, statistics and ship building in many different forms.
9.30am Registration.
10.00am Introduction. JANE WESS
10.05am Diderot and d’Alembert. JEREMY GRAY
10.45am Euler and the Enlightenment. ROSIE CRETNEY
11.25am Coffee/tea.
11.55am Calculus in commerce: weaving and weighing. NORMAN BIGGS
12.35pm The measure of man. ALAN MORTON
1.15pm Lunch.
2.20pm Reduced to rule: architecture and mathematics in 18th-century England. STEPHEN JOHNSTON
3.00pm Mary Somerville: mathematician, astronomer, and pioneer physical science communicator. ALLAN CHAPMAN
3.40pm Tea/coffee.
4.00pm Emilie du Châtelet and the scientific Enlightenment in France. SARAH HUTTON
5.00pm Course disperses.
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