ALT Image of poster for play (about mathematician Emmy Noether) and related reception; and display of materials (journal articles) by Noether in the Special Research Collections.
#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day
A pairing of books from the #HistSci Collections for #PiDay: Pi: A Source Book (2014) & one of the works included in this source book - Newton’s A Treatise on the Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series (1737) #HistMath
ALT Image of cover of source book of mathematical works: "Pi: A Source Book"
ALT Photo of page from book on mathematics, with running title "and INFINITE SERIES." The number for Pi in the text (3.1415926535897928) was highlighted using a shadow feature in the creation of this post.
With the wishes of Pope Francis, the original portraits of the famous mathematicians Lodovico Ferrari and Scipione del Ferro, kept for centuries in the dark basements of the Vatican, have finally been published. ♱⛪♱
#mathematics#math#maths#HistMath
Adolphe #Quetelet was arguably the greatest Belgian scientists ever. He contributed to many fields, including mathematics despite only publishing for 10 years in that field! 195 years ago he presented his last mathematical publication to the royal academy.
#OTD#histmath#histsci
Kicking off the new year with good news. My study on the meaning of the word _ratio_ in medieval mathematics (and mathematical thought) has been published chez Vrin within a book edited by Dominique Poirel.
#HistMath#medievalphilosophy
Booking is open for our Christmas Meeting on Dec 9th. Talks on student life, colonialism, Euclid in Gaelic w/ @CPMacanBhaird, museums w/ @TeaKayB, the transcendence of π, and poetry w/ @sarahlovesmaths. Showcasing the variety in #HistMath - see you there!
bshm.ac.uk/events/christmas-…
Exciting new archive of freely accessible digitized sources in #HistMath Including a handwritten manuscript of a paper on the shape of the Earth by Alexis Clairaut, and referee reports on Hertha Ayrton's 1904 paper on the formation of ripples in sand. Time for some exploring!
Following an estimated 15,000 hours of conservation work we're excited to launch our permanent digital archive portal #ScienceInTheMaking! Explore 30,000 archive items and 250,000 individual images spanning 400 years of scientific history: makingscience.royalsociety.o…#HistSci
ALT Photo of volumes of Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society on a shelf in the History of Science Collections at OU Libraries (maroon spines with gold lettering for title and volume; begins with vol. 1 1865-6).
“On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” by A. M. Turing from Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, series 2, 42 (1936) #MathHistory#MathMonday#HistoryOfComputing
ALT Photo of beginning of article from Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society: “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem By A. M. Turing [Received 28 May, 1936. - Read 12 November 1936.]”
ALT Close-up photo of title page of Nov. 30, 1936 issue of Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society showing article by A. M Turing “On Computable Numbers”
ALT Close-up photo of title page of Dec. 23, 1936 issue of Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society showing article by A. M Turing “On Computable Numbers”
ALT Photo of spines of ten volumes of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (from the 1930s & 1940s) on a shelf in Bizzell Memorial Library at the University of Oklahoma
The quiz is written, all we need now is our contestants... The winner's glory will be as infinite as the decimal representation of Pi. The prize is alas only finite. #PiDay#HistMath
Today (3/14 to some) is International Pi Day; a day to celebrate the beauty of maths and think about its role in society.
This year, the British Society for the History of Mathematics will be marking the occasion with an online quiz hosted by @FidgeyB!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/bshm-pi-d…
ALT Photo of 13 students in front of History of Science screen at the 5th floor Special Research Collections in Bizzell Memorial Library (all with great smiles!)
ALT Image of title page of book published in Paris in 1623: “Sommaire de l'algebre, tres-necessaire pour faciliter l'interpretation du dixiesme liure d'Euclide . . . Par D. Henrion Mathématicien”
ALT Images of two pages from the beginning of chapter V (on multiplication and division, with examples of problems) from 1623 French book on algebra
ALT Images from Galileo’s 1623 book Il Saggiatore: bookplates (Stillman Drake and DeGolyer Collection), spine; and title page (with illustrations including personifications of “filosofia naturale” & “mathematica” and a lynx)