Welcome in the course of History of Mathematics and Informatics 2025 – 2026:

Our course started on Monday September 22th  2025 at 14:30 o’clock in the room TH1249.

You could think about a title of your seminary essay and send me by e-mail the suggestion of it. When I accept  the title of your future essay you could start to work.

Alena Šolcová

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The list of accepted titles of seminary essays 2025-2026 

[1] Abate, Luca: The Mathematics Behind Drums.
[2] Borkó, Zoltán:  John von Neumann. His Scientific Career and is Influence on the Present.

 
 Preliminary programme for the year 2025 – 2026:

1.  lecture – September 22nd. 2025 :
   
   Introduction Ancient Mathematics and Technology  AncGr17
2.  lecture – September 29, 2025: Wheels and Astronomical Clock
   
3.  lecture – October 6, 2025: The Development of Variationala Calculus.
   
4.  lecture – October 13, 2025:
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5.  lecture – October 20, 2025: Computing before Computers.
   
6.  lecture – October 27, 2025: A Brief History of Linear Algebra.
   
7.  lecture – November 3, 2025: Mathematics and Physics in Prague during Slowly Fading Baroque Time.
   
8.  lecture – November 10, 2025: Logarithms and Slide Rule as Essential Tool in Science and Technology.
   
9.  lecture – November 17, 2025: The Lecture was cancelled. The Extraordinary Day in the Czech Republic
   
10.  lecture – November 24, 2025: Astronomy and Mathematics Behind the Great China’s Wall.
    
11.  lecture – December 1, 2025: How the Meter Was Made: The Complicated History of a Simple Unit.
    
12.  lecture – December 8, 2025: A Significant Milestones of Fuzzy Logic. History of the Word ROBOT and First Steps in the Developmént of Computers in Czech Republic. Antonin Svoboda and Vladimír Vand.
    
13.  lecture – December 15, 2025: Origins and Brief History of Cryptography. Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla in Prague.
    

     
    
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     Preliminary programme for the year 2024 – 2025:

    
    
    
    
    1.  lecture – September, 26th :
       
       Introduction Ancient Mathematics and Technology  AncGr17
    
    
    2.  lecture – October 3, 2024: It is extraordinary cancelled.
       
       First tutorial – October 2, 2024
       
       Hellenistic Mathematics Helen_TAM_17 Origins of Calculus of Variations
       
       From Archimedes‘ Results to Gauss Origins17
    
    
    3.  lecture – October 10, 2024:
       
       Perpetuum mobile, an Application of Different Method during Centuries.
       
       Prague Astronomical Clock and Hidden Mathematics in It.
    
    
    4.  lecture – October 17, 2024
       
       Architecture and Geometry. Greek Order of Columns. Vitruvius Man. Fibonacci and Logarithmic Spiral, etc.  Albrecht Dürer and Perspective.
       
       Second tutorial – October 16, 2024 Preparation of the Seminary Essay
    
    
    5.  lecture – October 24, 2024
    
    
    6.  lecture – October 31, 2024
       
       Third tutorial
       
       
       
       
    
    
    7.  lecture – November 5, 2024
    
    
    8.  lecture – November 14, 2024
       
       Fourth tutorial
    
    
    
    

        

    
    

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    For your inspiration is the list of accepted titles of seminary essays 2023-2024 

    
    

    [1]  Bachmann, Timo, Jens: History of Numeral Systems, a Study of the Decimals and Beyond.
    
    [2] Hass, Lukas: Development of Different Styles of Clocks. 
    
    [3] Sildam Tiia: Koch Snowflakes and Fractals (or History of Calculations).
    
    [4] Erasmus, Sebastian: History of Computers … .

    
    

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    The list of accepted titles of seminary essays 2024-2025 for your inspiration
    
    [1] Zavatta Chiara: The Invention of logarithms and Their Crucial Role in the Development of Early Calculatores. 
    
    [2] Prokopisina, Diana: Z3: first fully operational program-controlled computing machine in the world (developed by Konrad Zuse).
    
    [3] Objeleanskaia, Daria: The Role of Women in Computing.
    
    [4] Nunez Silva,  Baltazar Martim:
    
    [5] Vieira Antunes, Joao

    
    

     

    
    

     Preliminary programme for the year 2023 – 2024:

    
    
    
    
    1.  lecture – September, 27: Introduction
       
       Origins of Calculus of Variations
       
       From Archimedes‘ Results to Gauss Origins17
       
           
    
    
    2.  lecture – October, 4:
       
       Ancient Mathematics and Technolog  AncGr17
       
       Hellenistic Mathematics Helen_TAM_17 Excercise 1: October 5
    
    
    3.  lecture – October, 11: 
       
       History of wheels   Wheels19
       
                           Astronomical Clock HKclock
    
    
    4.  lecture – October, 18:  History  of CTU HistCTU2022 Excercise 2: October 19
    
    
    5.  lecture – October, 25:  Leonardo da Vinci and his invention
       
       Computer for Johannes Kepler? William Schickardt: Calculating Clock Comput2_17
    
    
    6. lecture – November 1:  Priority of the Development of CalculatorsExcercise 3: November 2
       
       
       
       
    
    
    7. lecture – November, 8: Development of Symbolic Algebra
    
    
    8. lecture – November, 15:  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and his calculator
       
       G_W_ L_Compt3-20
       
       Joseph  Stepling and  New Science in the 18th  Century  Stepling_D_17Excercise 4: November 16
       
       
       
       
    
    
    9. lecture – November 22:
       
       A Brief History of Linear Algebra
       
       Nicola Tesla,
       
       First steps in the development of computers in Czechoslovakia and Other Countries ….  SZlecture20
       
       Albert Einstein in Prague
    
    
    10. lecture – November 29:
        
        Milestones in the Development of Fuzzy Logic
        
        FuzzyMilestones2022
        
        History of Indian mathematics: Srínivasa Ramanujan and IT Day  Ramanujan20Excercise 5: November 30
        
        
        
        
    
    
    11. lecture December, 6:
        
        Hexagonal Snowflakes and Johannes Kepler
        
        From Kepler Mosaic to the Question: Is there a crystal lattice possessing five-fold symmetry? rtx120100022p
    
    
    12. lecture – December  13:
        
        Formulario Mathematico and Giuseppe Peano 
        
        History of Doppler effect.
        
        
        
        Excercise 6: December 14
        
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        The list of accepted titles of seminary essays 2021-2022 for your inspiration
        
        [1]   Hidalgo, Ernesto, Iván Ochoa: The History of the Rubik’s Cube and Its Number of Combinations. 
        
        [2]    Graham, Richard:  John Harrison  (1693 – 1776), the Inventor of the 1st usable marine chronometer … and related inventions 
        
        [3] Ustynov, Artem: Turing Machine and its Significance.
        
        [4] Martinez Chaverri: Daniel Alexandro: Mathematics Nature of Musical Scales
        
        [5] Novruzov, Mammadgulu: The Important Personage of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi in the History of Mathematics”?
        
        [6] Oliveiro Ribeiro, Bruna Sofia:
        
        [7] Gonςalves de Sá, Sara Raquel. The Development of the Computers during 19th. Century.
        
        

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