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By Professor Raymond Flood. The 19th Century saw the development of a mathematics profession with people earning their living from teaching, examining, and researching and with the mathematical center of gravity moving from France to Germany.
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A lot of the mathematics taught at university today was initiated at that time. Whereas in the 18th Century one would use the term 'mathematician', by the end of the 19th Century one had specialists in analysis, algebra, geometry, number theory, probability and statistics, and applied mathematics. This series of lectures looks at the shaping of mathematical areas and at the people who were involved.
Professor Raymond Flood is Emeritus Fellow and a member of the Continuing Education Department at Kellogg College, Oxford, and is Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. (from gresham.ac.uk)
Course Currilcum
- Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Calculus and its Limits Unlimited
- Polynomials and their Roots Unlimited
- From One to Many Geometries Unlimited
- The Queen of Mathematics Unlimited
- Are Averages Typical? Unlimited
- Modeling the World Unlimited
