COURSE: "Topics in the History of Science"

by Claude Brezinski (Emeritus Professor at the University of Lille, France)

and Michela Redivo-Zaglia (Studioso Senior of the University of Padua, Italy).

DATES: APRIL and MAY 2024

(April, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24; May, 2, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23)

(22 hours in total, on Wednesday and Thursday)

TIME: 2:00 pm (time zone Europe/Lisbon).

LOCAL: In-person in the Room FC1 0.04, DM-FCUP, University of Porto, Portugal.

LIVESTREAM by ZOOM (see below)

The lectures in APRIL are:

10 April        Geodesy, topography, and cartography.

11 April        Mathematical introduction to orthogonal polynomials, quadrature methods,...

17 April        Padé approximants, continued fractions, and Henri Padé.

18 April        History of continued fractions and Padé approximants.

24 April        The birth of orthogonal polynomials (Lagrange, Legendre, and Laplace).

The lectures in MAY could be their continuation on the history of orthogonal polynomials:

Gauss (1777-1855) and Jacobi (1804-1851).

Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues (1795-1851).

Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829-1900).

Chebyshev, Hermite, and Laguerre.
 

However, according to the wishes of the participants, historical lectures on the following topics could also be presented:

A history of calculating devices.

A panorama of numerical analysis during the 20th century.

Extrapolation methods from Archimedes to the present day.

The adventures of a quest.

The method of Cholesky.

The Stein-Rosenberg theorem for relaxation methods.

The history of projection methods for solving linear systems.

The Peutinger Table.

Each person interested in online participation in some, or all, lectures is kindly requested to send a message with her/his name and affiliation to:

Zélia da Rocha  ( mrdioh@fc.up.pt ) for obtaining the Zoom link.