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 

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 Preliminary programme for the year 2025 – 2026:

1.  lecture – September, 22nd :
   Introduction Ancient Mathematics and Technology  AncGr17
2.  lecture – September 29, 2024: Wheels and Astronomical Clock
3.  lecture – October 6, 2024: The Development of Variationala Calculus.
    
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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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