Welcome in the course History of Mathematics and Informatics –
Sommer Semester 2024/2025!
We will start our course
with the Introductory Lecture on Wednesday February, 19, 2025 at 11 o’clock
in the room A949. We will meet during tutorial every two weeks on Wednesday from 16:15.
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Contact : Alena Šolcová, Associate Professor, Dept of Applied of Mathematics
e-mail: alena.solcova@fit.cvut.cz
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Please, consider a topic of your seminary essay
and send me your suggestion for its confirmation
before March, 31, 2025.
Alena Šolcová
The length of your Seminary Essay will be about 5 pages. The most important is detailed description of (for you and for other students) interesting topic. Don’t forgot quotations of used sources (literature and webpages).
List of Accepted Topics of Essayes _ 2025
[01] Bhat, Shehjar: Zero
[02] Mammadov, Said: History o cryptography and cryptoanalysis
[03] Hutcheson, Cole Oliver: The Bourbaki Conspiracy: The Story of Mathematical Modernism.
[04] Gasimov, Janpolad: The Influence of Islamic Mathematicians on Geometry.
[05] Sadigov, Murad: Infinity: A Paradoxical Concept of Mathematics.
[06] .Suárez, Rafael: History and Application of the Sequence of Fibonacci.
[07] Ahadzade, Muhammad: Löfti Zadeh and his Contributions to Mathematics.
[08] Davila, Victor Bianco: History of Cryptography.
[09] Mastafazade, Aydan: How irrational Numbers Were Discovered?
[10] Bakshani, Pratham: History of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language of Deap Learning like Chatgpt.
[11] Kavaleryan, Aram: From Ancient Numerals to Modern Theorems: A Journey Through the Armenian History of Mathematics.
[12] Ismayilli, Sanan: Fermat’s Last Theorem.
[13] Huseynov, Javidan: History of the first mechanical computers.
[14] Alakbarov, Vali: Mathematics behind the ancient architecture
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Preliminary Programme of Lectures – 2025
1st lecture – February 19, 2025
Introduction to the course AncGr18
2nd lecture – February 29, 2025
Origins of Calculus of Variation
3rd lecture – March 5 2025
Prague Astronomical Clock – One of the oldest Analog Calculators
4th lecture – March 12 2025
Albrecht Durer and the art of perspective,.
Studies of Leonardo da Vinci during Renaissance Time
5th lecture – March 19 2025
Brief Review of Linear Algebra
Introduction to Baroque Architectonicaů Style – Baroque_arch1_Introd_2024 Baroque in Prague – Baroque1_Prague_2024 Baroque2_Prague
6th lecture – March 26 2025
Barock Architecture (Gardens and labyrints) Baroque_arch3-gard_2024,
Baroque Statues_ Charles Bridge- Baroque_Statues_CharlB2024 –
HIstory of Cryptography
7th lecture – April 2, 2025
8th lecture – April 9, 2025
Brief History of Metrology
9th lecture – April 16, 2025
Giussepe Peano and Development of Symbolical Language
First Steps of Czech technical University.
10th lecture – April 23, 2025
11th lecture – April 30, 2025
12th lecture – May 7, 2025
13th lecture – May 14, 2025
Preliminary Programme of Lectures – it will be changed
1st lecture – February 26, 2024
Introduction to the course AncGr18
History of Czech Technical University
2nd lecture – March 7, 2024
Origins of Calculus of Variation
3rd lecture – March 14, 2024
Prague Astronomical Clock – An Analytic Calculator from 15th Century
4th lecture – March 21, 2024
First mechanical calculators in the 17th century
Wilhelm Schickard 1624, Blaise Pascal 1643, Gotfried Wilhelm Leibniz
5th lecture – March 28, 2024
Albrecht Durer and the art of perspective,. Studies of Leonardo da Vinci during Renaissance Time
6th lecture – April 4, 2024 – is cancelled for conference out of Prague.
Reccomendation for reading and studium: Baroque and Mathematics: Introduction to Baroque Architectonicaů Style – Baroque_arch1_Introd_2024 Baroque in Prague – Baroque1_Prague_2024 Baroque2_Prague
Baroque Garden and Labyrints – Baroque_arch3-gard_2024, Baroque Statues_ Charles Bridge- Baroque_Statues_CharlB2024
7th lecture – April 11, 2024
Brief Review of Linear Algebra
Joseph Stepling – the founder of new education in Prague
(Newton Ideas in Stepling“s Thinking)
How the Meter Was Made:The Complicated History
of a Simple Unit Metr24
8th lecture – April 25, 2024
History of the Czech Technical University
Franz Josef Gerstner – theory of waves, HistCTU2023
Christian Doppler Doppler21, Nicola Tesla and Albert Einstein
Tesla_A_24_1 Tesla_A_24_2 AE24
Giuseppe Peano, his Work and Ideas. (Development of Axiomatic Theories and Symbolic a Terminology). The Mathematical Induction. Peano
Ramanujan – Famous Talented Mathematician and Number Theory. Godfrey H. Hardy and John Littlewood. Cooperation of Mathematician.
Ramanujan21
9th lecture – May 2, 2024
The lecture is cancelled – This week is the change of the timetable of our faculty – this day is the programme of Wednesday
10th lecture – April 9, 2024
Matematics in the 20th and 21st Century
First steps in History of Computing in the Czechoslovakia
History of Crystalography
11th lecture – April 16, 2024
Significant Milestones of Fuzzy Logic.
Conclusion.
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Preliminary Programme of Lectures
1st lecture – February 22, 2023 – Introduction to the course AncGr18
History of Czech Technical University
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Tutorial 1 – February 23, 2023
2nd lecture – March 1, 2023 –
Pythagorean mathematics – primes,, perfect numbers, amicable numbers, figural numbers
Numeration – Babylonian, Egytian and Greek – Ionian – examples
Hellenistic Mathematics – introduction – Archimedes
3rd lecture – March 8, 2023
Prague Astronomical Clock – An Analytic Calculator from 15th Century
HKclock521
Tutorial 2 – March 9, 2023
4th lecture – March 15, 2023
Origins of the Calculus of Variations Origins21
5th lecture – March 22, 2023
Rennaissance Mathematics – Significant Personalities – Leonardo da Vinci and his Inventions – vinci1_18 – Vinci’s Life, Inventions, Vitruvian Man, Divine Proportion, Robotic Knight 22
From Vinci to Albrecht Duerer.
Tutorial 3 – March 23, 2023
6th lecture – March 29, 2023
First Mechanical Calculators – William Schickard, 1623, Calculating Clock
Napier Bones 1617, Rabdologiae – Blaise Pascal, 1642, Pascaline – Comput2_18
7th lecture – April 5, 2023
Archtecture and Mathematics – Gothic Style
Geometry of Barock Architecture
Tutorial 4 – April 6, 2023
8th lecture – April 12, 2023
18th Century
Newton in Prague in the work of Joseph Stepling
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Universal Language and Mechanical Calculator
9th lecture – April 19, 2023
Famous Scientists in Prague: Albert Einstein in Prague 1911-1912.
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The significant teacher of our Polytechnics Christian Doppler
Doppler21
and one of students –
Nikola Tesla – of Polytechnic in Prague.
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Tutorial 5. – April 20, 2023
10th Lecture – April 26, 2023
Giuseppe Peano and the Mathematical Induction.
Peano
Ramanujan – famous talented Mathematician and Number Theory. Godfrey H. Hardy and John Littlewood. Cooperation of Mathematician.
Ramanujan21
11th Lecture – May 3, 2023
First steps in History of Computing in the Czechoslovakia
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Tutorial 6. – May 4, 2023
Development of Logic to Fuzzy Ideas
12th Lecture – May 17, 2023
Mathematics in the 20th a 21st Century. Math_20_21
Problems of Different Culture Probl_dif_Cult_22
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Examples of Accepted Topics of Essayes 2020 for your Inspiration
- Ege Kayra Akten: Golden Ratio and It’s History.
- Abdullah Abdullah: Patterns in Pascal´s Triangle.
- Leonid Burbygin: History of Development of Fractals and their Usage.