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Gresham College: What Do You Need a Mathematician For? Perspectives from the 17th Century

In 1634 a professor had to argue in public that mathematics was worth paying for. The argument is older than you think.

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Volker Remmert uses seventeenth-century inaugural lectures - speeches whose whole job was to justify the subject to the people funding it - to show how mathematicians have always had to sell what they do, and what they claimed it was good for. 18:00.

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Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH
Nearest station
Chancery Lane · 1 min walk

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