BIE-History of Mathematics and Informatics

Welcome in the course History of Mathematics and Informatics –
Sommer Semester 2025/2026!

We will start our course
with the Introductory Lecture on Wednesday February, 18, 2026 at  11 o’clock
in the room A949. We  will meet during tutorial every two weeks on Wednesday from 14:30. First one will be on Wednesday March, 4th.  
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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, 25, 2026.

                                                                                          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  _ 2026

  • [01] Negoda, Konstiantyn: From Boolean Algebra Philosophy to Digital Circuits: The Mathematical Foundation of Modern Computer Architecture.
  • [02] Wu, Fei: Recursion is an Interdisciplinalry Language.
  • [03] Kyrsanov, Kyrylo: Number Systems. From Babylon to Binary Systems.
  • [04] Zernyshkin, Illia: The Method of Exhaustion as a Precursor of Integral Calculus.
  • [05] Avetisyan, Nare: The Foundation and Impact of Non-Euclidian Geometry.
  • [06] Huseynli, Sami: The Development of Number Theory and Prime Distribution.
  • [07] Cherepanov, Kirill: History of Mathematical Models of Finantial Markets.
  • [08] Hamzacebi, Arda: Nikola Tesla’s Inventions and His Connection to Prague.
  • [09] Jonczyk, Alicja Aleksandra: The Scottish Café in Lviv and the Development of Functional Analysis in the Lwów School of Mathematics.
  • [10] Maharramov, Andrii: Nasir al-Din al Tusi and His Contributions to Mathematics and Astronomy.[11] Orhan, Emir: Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine. How Breaking a Cipher changed Computing Forever
  • [12] Salim, Marat: Islamic mathematics and Its Influence on Europe.
  • [13] Singh, Ananya: The Kerala School of Mathematics in India and Madhava Infinite Series.
  • [14] Wu Shu Zhen: Cryptography and Codebreaking during World War II. The Role of Alan Turing.
  • [15] Zaborskyi, Illia: The Historical Developmentof Algorithms: From Ancient Mathematics to the Theory of Computation.
  • [16] Surname, Name: The Title of Seminary Essay.

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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.
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    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
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    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.
    AE21
    The significant teacher  of our Polytechnics Christian Doppler
    Doppler21
    and one of students –
    Nikola Teslaof 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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