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THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. However, you can watch the lecture real-time via live-stream on ICERM's website on the day of the event. Just go to our home page and click on the "Live Streaming" button at the top of the page.
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An ICERM Public Lecture at Brown University: What's the big deal about calculus?
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
ICERM, 121 South Main Street, 11th Floor, Providence, RI 02903
Light reception: 6:00pm
Lecture begins: 6:30pm
Book signing: 7:45pm
ABOUT THE LECTURE
Everyone has heard of calculus, but why is it so important? Millions of high school and college students feel compelled to take calculus, but many would be hard-pressed to explain what the subject is about or why it matters. Some of their teachers might feel the same way.
In this talk, Dr. Strogatz will try to clarify the fantastic idea at the heart of calculus, basing the talk on his most recent book, Infinite Powers. With the help of pictures and stories, he will trace where calculus came from and then show how it, in partnership with medicine, philosophy, science, and technology, reshaped the course of civilization and helped make the world modern.
This talk is intended for everyone, whether you've taken calculus or not, and whether you like math or not. By the end, you just may be convinced that calculus is one of the most imaginative and consequential triumphs of human creativity ever.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Steven Strogatz studied at Princeton, Cambridge, and Harvard and taught at MIT before moving to Cornell in 1994. A renowned teacher and communicator, he has blogged about math for the New York Times and the New Yorker and has been a frequent guest on RadioLab and Science Friday. His honors include a Marshall Scholarship; a Presidential Young Investigator Award; MITs and Cornell's highest teaching prizes; a lifetime achievement award for the communication of mathematics to the general public; the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science; and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Sync, The Calculus of Friendship, The Joy of x, and, most recently, Infinite Powers, on which this talk is based.
This event is free and open to the public.
Limited seating. Please register to reserve a seat.
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. However, you can watch the lecture real-time via live-stream on ICERM's website on the day of the event. Just go to our home page and click on the "Live Streaming" button at the top of the page.
https//icerm.brown.edu
Hosted by the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM).
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| Wednesday May 08, 2019 6:30 PM - Wednesday May 08, 2019 8:00 PM | Free |
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LocationICERM, Brown University's Math Institute (View)
121 S Main St
Providence, RI 02903
United States
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