Timeline for historical antecedents of mathematical talks
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| Jul 23, 2013 at 23:08 | comment | added | Jaime Arango | The way we lecture has drastically changed in the last 200 years. We tend today to give more details. The answers I read are useful, but one thing is a paper, or a book, and a different think is a talk. I have no idea of how were the talks in the XVII Century or later, o more recently, how were the talks in the ICM in Chicago (1893)? The ICM 1893 papers are on line available (mathunion.org/ICM) but a glance at them suggest that the mathematical contents do not reflect entirely the talks. For example, how do they addressed the mathematical equations to the audience? | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 22:31 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Klyve
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| Jul 23, 2013 at 22:26 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | certainly, as Euler himself writes: "The hope of having the honor to communicate in person to your highness my lessons in geometry becoming more and more distant, which is a very sensible mortification to me, I feel myself impelled to supply person instruction by writing, as far as the nature of the subjects will permit." Still, the style of the letters is quite informal and colloquial, I can imagine actually hearing Euler lecture. | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 22:20 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | If I remember correctly, Euler taught that princess by correspndence. And that is the reason why we can read this. | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 21:55 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Riemann
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| Jul 23, 2013 at 21:25 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |