Welcome in the course of History of Mathematics and Informatics 2024 – 2025:

Our course started on Wednesday September 26th  2024 at 12:45 o’clock in the room TH1942.

You could think about a title of your seminary essay and send me by e-mail the suggestion of it. When I accept  the title of your future essay you could start to work.

Alena Šolcová

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Exams: 1- test (40 points), 2- presentation of seminary essay (60 points).

 Preliminary programme for the year 2024 – 2025:

1.  lecture – September, 26th :
   Introduction Ancient Mathematics and Technology  AncGr17
2.  lecture – October 3, 2024: It is extraordinary cancelled.First tutorial – October 2, 2024
   Hellenistic Mathematics Helen_TAM_17 Origins of Calculus of Variations
   From Archimedes‘ Results to Gauss Origins17
3.  lecture – October 10, 2024:
4.  lecture – October 17, 2024
   Second tutorial – October 16, 2024
       

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For your inspiration is the list of accepted titles of seminary essays 2023-2024 

[1]  Bachmann, Timo, Jens: History of Numeral Systems, a Study of the Decimals and Beyond.
[2] Hass, Lukas: Development of Different Styles of Clocks. 
[3] Sildam Tiia: Koch Snowflakes and Fractals (or History of Calculations).
[4] Erasmus, Sebastian: History of Computers … .

 Preliminary programme for the year 2023 – 2024:

1.  lecture – September, 27: Introduction
   Origins of Calculus of Variations
   From Archimedes‘ Results to Gauss Origins17
       
2.  lecture – October, 4:
   Ancient Mathematics and Technolog  AncGr17
   Hellenistic Mathematics Helen_TAM_17 Excercise 1: October 5
3.  lecture – October, 11: 
   History of wheels   Wheels19
                       Astronomical Clock HKclock
4.  lecture – October, 18:  History  of CTU HistCTU2022 Excercise 2: October 19
5.  lecture – October, 25:  Leonardo da Vinci and his invention
   Computer for Johannes Kepler? William Schickardt: Calculating Clock Comput2_17
6. lecture – November 1:  Priority of the Development of CalculatorsExcercise 3: November 2
   
   
7. lecture – November, 8: Development of Symbolic Algebra
8. lecture – November, 15:  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and his calculator
   G_W_ L_Compt3-20
   Joseph  Stepling and  New Science in the 18th  Century  Stepling_D_17Excercise 4: November 16
   
   
9. lecture – November 22:
   A Brief History of Linear Algebra
   Nicola Tesla,
   First steps in the development of computers in Czechoslovakia and Other Countries ….  SZlecture20
   Albert Einstein in Prague
10. lecture – November 29:
    Milestones in the Development of Fuzzy Logic
    FuzzyMilestones2022
    History of Indian mathematics: Srínivasa Ramanujan and IT Day  Ramanujan20Excercise 5: November 30
    
    
11. lecture December, 6:
    Hexagonal Snowflakes and Johannes Kepler
    From Kepler Mosaic to the Question: Is there a crystal lattice possessing five-fold symmetry? rtx120100022p
12. lecture – December  13:
    Formulario Mathematico and Giuseppe Peano 
    History of Doppler effect.
    
    Excercise 6: December 14
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    The list of accepted titles of seminary essays 2021-2022 for your inspiration
    [1]   Hidalgo, Ernesto, Iván Ochoa: The History of the Rubik’s Cube and Its Number of Combinations. 
    [2]    Graham, Richard:  John Harrison  (1693 – 1776), the Inventor of the 1st usable marine chronometer … and related inventions 
    [3] Ustynov, Artem: Turing Machine and its Significance.
    [4] Martinez Chaverri: Daniel Alexandro: Mathematics Nature of Musical Scales
    [5] Novruzov, Mammadgulu: The Important Personage of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi in the History of Mathematics”?
    [6] Oliveiro Ribeiro, Bruna Sofia:
    [7] Gonςalves de Sá, Sara Raquel. The Development of the Computers during 19th. Century.

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