Seminar series
Date
Mon, 08 May 2017
17:00
17:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Christopher Hollings
Organisation
Mathematical Institute
Part of the series "What do historians of mathematics do?"
I will address this question by turning to another: "What is algebra?" In answering this second question, and surveying the way that the answer changes as we move through the centuries, I will highlight some of the problems that face historians of mathematics when it comes to interpreting historical mathematics, and give a flavour of what it means to study the history of mathematics.