Dr. Adrian Rice has been a professor at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, VA and is an emminant historian of mathematics, with 18th and 19th century math as his specialty. He received his Ph.D. from Middlesex University, London, in 1997. He also holds masters and bachelors degrees from King's College London, and University College London, respectively. He came to Randolph-Macon in September 1999 after having served as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia from 1998-1999, and a lecturer at Middlesex University from 1995 to 1998. For more information on Dr. Rice and his publications please visit http://faculty.rmc.edu/adrice/public_html/ .
He will be talking to us about the history of calculus; the circumstances surrounding its emergence, the key personalities involved and what other breakthroughs it has shaped. Please bring any questions you might have about the history of calculus and why it would be important to learn it. You can also generate some questions by commenting on this post if you would like for certain things to be discussed during his talk. We will meet in SAC on Thursday, January 22nd.
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Enjoyed the talk - I think it would have been cool for him to talk about modern applications of advanced calculus and the possible future applications of it.
Well, he did provide a plethora of examples of the modern applications. Yet, if he were to go into any considerable detail, it would require unpacking vast amounts of Calculus that not everybody is ready for yet and we wouldn't finish in a block. So, it would then turn into just a grocery list of the applications, not the best use of a historian's presence.
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