Events for November 20, 2008
November 20, 2008
George Rosenstein, Franklin & Marshall College, Emeritus
“How Did Gibbs Discover the Gibbs Phenomena? A Speculation.”
Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics (PASHoM) | Visit site »
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: Villanova University
Although it is very easy with computers to demonstrate the Gibb’s Phenomena to today’s students of Fourier Series, it was not a simple matter in 1899. Professor Rosenstein will trace the interesting history leading up to Gibbs’s announcement and will then speculate on his discovery.
November 20, 2008
Janet Browne, Harvard University
“The Many Lives of Charles Darwin”
University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences | Visit site »
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Janet Browne, Aramont Professor in the History of Science at Harvard University, is author of the critically acclaimed two-volume biography, Charles Darwin: Voyaging (1995), covering the naturalist’s youth and years on HMS Beagle, and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (2002), about his post-Beagle years through the publication of his theory of evolution and beyond. In this program, Dr. Browne shares what she believes is most important about the life and work of Charles Darwin—and why his influence continues to resound 150 years after the printing of his seminal work, On the Origin of Species.
The program is co-sponsored by Penn Museum, the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, School of Engineering, and the Provost’s Office as part of the Year of Evolution program.