Second semester of the UNESCO Chair

History of Mathematics

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Object of the program

The choice is deliberately thematic. Arabic period is present at its right place. The aim is both to inform mathematicians about some aspects of the discipline and to help to introduce History of Mathematics as a research's discipline as well as a part of teaching discipline.
Teachers' choice is motivated by their quality alone and by the capacity to combine History and Epistemology, because we believe that History without Epistemology is blind and that Epistemology without History is empty.

Lecturers

Hélène Bellosta, Research Director, CNRS
Marouane Ben Miled, Ass. Res., CNRS;  Tunis Faculty of Sciences
Michel Blay, Research Director, CNRS
Pascal Crozet, Senior Researcher, CNRS
Serge Demidov, Professor, Institute for the History of Sc. and Tech.; Russian Acad. of Sc.
Massimo Galuzzi, Professor, Milan University
Christian Houzel, Honorary Research Director, CNRS
Faïza Laridhi-Bancel, Associated Researcher, CNRS
Alain Michel, Professor, Aix-Marseilles University
Régis Morelon, Research Director, CNRS
Daniele Napolitani, Professor, Pisa University
Roshdi Rashed, Emeritus Research Director, CNRS
Erhardt Scholz, Professor, Wuppertal University

Organizing committee for this semester

Lamia Belaid Jaafar, Marouane Ben Miled.

Course contents

The courses will be given in French or in English.

Each course is one-week long.

The program is organised around three axes :

A- Algebra and Number Theory's History (+ 1 course in History of Geometry)
B- Analysis' History
C- Some mathematical Applications' History

A- Algebra and Number Theory's History

A1- History of Diophantine Analysis and of Number Theory from Diophantus to Lagrange. R. Rashed

A1.1- History of Ancient and Classic Geometry. H. Bellosta (Summary and bibliography)

A2- History of Algebra: al-Khwârizmî and its Arabics and Latins' Successors.  M. Ben Miled (Summary and bibliography)

A3- History of Algebra since Galois. M. Galuzzi (Summary and bibliography)

A4- History of Algebraic Geometry, 20th c. C. Houzel (Summary and bibliography)

B- Analysis' History

B1- Arabic Archimedeans. P. Crozet

B2- Beginnings of Differential Calculus. D. Napolitani (Summary)

B3- History of Differential Calculus, 18th-19th c. S. Demidov (Summary and bibliography)

B4- History of Differential Geometry.  E. Scholz (Summary and bibliography)

B5- History of Measure's Theory and Integration. A. Michel (Summary and bibliography)

C- Some Mathematical Applications' History

C1- History of Mathematical Applications: Mechanics and Optic. M. Blay (Detailed Course)

 C2- History of Astronomy from Ptolemy to Kepler. R. Morelon (Summary and bibliography)

Calendar

Detailed calendar, week/week

Week 9: from the 29th of november to the 3rd of december

Week 10: from the 6th to the 10th of december

Week 11: from the 13th to the 17th of december

The course is Master's level. It's open to students, reseachers and teachers.

Costs and scholarships

There is no registration fee for the course.

Fellowships for reimbursing living and travel expenses are granted to some participators from Developping Countries who are sponsored by a Senior Researcher.

Contact

Marouane Ben Miled

LAMSIN - ENIT
1002 TUNIS BELVEDERE
TUNISIE
Telephone-Fax : (+216) 71 87 10 22

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