Key facts

Type	Day and Weekend
Location	Oxford
Address	Rewley House 1 Wellington Square Oxford OX1 2JA
Dates	Sat 22 to Sun 23 Jun 2013
Subject area(s)	Mathematics
Fees	From £100.00
Application status	Closed to new applications
Course code	O12P242MAR
Course contact	If you have any questions about this course, please email ppdayweek@conted.ox.ac.uk.

Overview

A weekend meeting organised jointly by the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University, and the British Society for the History of Mathematics.

This meeting offers a publicly-accessible account of the development of Geometry over the past two and a half thousand years and involves a series of talks by a variety of well-known speakers. Our aim is to present a varied, entertaining, non-trivial view of a subject which has been vital to human attempts to comprehend their world.

Programme details

Geometry from Euclid to Einstein

Saturday 22 June 2013

9.30 Registration
9.45 Tea and coffee

The Greeks
10.15–11.00: Benjamin Wardhaugh: Euclid and his Elements – a story about stories.
11.00–11.45: Michalis Sialaros: Preparing a new English edition of Euclid’s Elements: problems, challenges and prospects
11.45–12.15: Questions

Lunch: 12.30 – 1.45

Geometry and art
1.45–2.30: Claire O'Mahony: Utopian dimensions: Geometry in Modern Art and Design
2.30–3.15: Philip Steadman: 'Looking into buildings: the geometry of visibility in architecture'
3.15–3.30: Questions

Tea 3.30 – 4.00

Surfaces and Tiling
4.00– 4.45: Snezana Lawrence: Developable Surfaces
4.45– 5:30: Sir Roger Penrose: Tilings
5.30– 5.45: Questions

Dinner: 7.00 – 8.15

After dinner lecture

8.30–9.30: John Barnes: Gems of geometry

Sunday 23 June 2013

The 17th century
9.15–10.00: Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze: Descartes
10.00–10.45. Stephen Huggett: Newton, the Geometer
10.45–11.00: Questions

Coffee: 11.00 – 11.30

Practical uses of Geometry
11.30–12.15: Stephen Johnston: How practical was practical geometry?
12.15–12.45: Tony Mann: Geometry and navigation
12.45–1.00: Questions

Lunch: 1.00 – 2.00

The 19th century
2.00–2.45: Jeremy Gray: Non-Euclidean Geometry in the nineteenth century.
2.45–3.30: Alice Jenkins: Geometry and the Victorian Imagination.
3.15–3.30: Questions

Tea: 3.30 – 4.00

4.00–4.45: Malcolm MacCallum: Geometry and early modern physics

4.45: End

Staff

Accommodation

Accommodation is often available in Rewley House for those who wish to stay on the night before a course. Please contact our Residential Centre on 01865 270362 for details of availability and prices.

Fee options

Programme Fee

Tuition fee (includes tea and coffee): £100.00

Accommodation

Single room (22 June 2013): £65.00

Twin B&B Sat 22 June 2013: £45.00

Catering

Full meals (exluding breakfast): £40.00

Baguette lunches: £6.50

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