Science as Navigation: Leonhard Euler’s Journeys
Symposium and Discussion
When: Friday, Nov. 30, 2007, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Where: McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020, UCSB, Santa Barbara
Cost: Free
Age limit: Not available
Categories: Lectures
Description: A one-day, international symposium on the occasion of Leonhard Euler's 300th birthday (1707-1783). This symposium investigates the central role played by the description, calculation and analysis of sites or places (topoi) in Euler's life and work. Active for many years in Saint Petersburg and Berlin and fluent in at least three languages, Euler was no stranger to changes in location and to the negotiation of different cultural and scientific contexts and their respective rhetorical, cultural, and scientific conventions. However, Euler's more specifically scientific activity in mathematics, astronomy, geometry, engineering and philosophy is also linked, in more ways than one, to the problem of topoi and their notation. Not only is his solution to the problem of the "Seven Bridges of Königsberg" considered one of the early foundations of mathematical topology, he also devoted much energy to ship building and navigation.
Phone: 805-893-3137
Event posted Nov. 13, 2007
Last updated Nov. 13, 2007
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