[Sci-tech-public] Fwd: SPEAKER: Joan Richards -- Applied Mathematics Colloquium -- Monday, February 5, 2007 -- TIME: 5:00 PM -- LOCATION: Room 2-105

[David Kaiser]

Please note:  New time for Joan Richards's talk on Monday (5pm), and 
new room for the reception beforehand (2-290)...
>
>
>			APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
>
>NOTE -- "New SEMINAR Time" and "Reception location"
>
>
>DATE:		MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2007
>TIME:		5:00 PM
>LOCATION:	Building 2, Room 105
>
>Refreshments at 4:00 PM in Building 2, Room 290
>
>
>Title:		MATHEMATICS, LOGIC, AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
>		IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
>
>
>Speaker:	JOAN RICHARDS  (Brown University)
>
>
>ABSTRACT:
>
>The relationship between mathematics and the external world has been 
>interpreted in very different ways in different times.  In this talk 
>will examine the relationships that Augustus De Morgan claimed 
>between mathematical and logical symbols and the ultimate nature of 
>the universe. I will use De Morgan's particular story as an entry 
>point into a view of the world that supported the development of a 
>great deal of the mathematics and physics in Victorian England.
>
>**************************************************************************
>
>Applied Math Colloquium:  http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/spring07
>Math Department:  http://www-math.mit.edu
>
>
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>Department of Mathematics
>Cambridge, MA  02139
>


_______________________________________
David Kaiser		dikaiser at mit.edu
Associate Professor
Program in Science, Technology, & Society
and Lecturer, Department of Physics
Building E51-185
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Phone: 617 452-3173	Fax: 617 258-8118
http://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www