Events for December 11, 2008

December 11, 2008

Thomas L. Bartlow, Villanova University

“Edward V. Huntington and Engineering Education”

Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics (PASHoM) | Visit site »

Time:  6:00 p.m.
Place: Villanova University

Edward V. Huntington is best known as a prototypical American postulate theorist and as the mathematician behind the method of apportioning Representatives among the states. However, much of his teaching was in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard and, in 1907, he became chairman of the Committee on the Teaching of Mathematics to Students of Engineering, a joint committee of the AMS and the AAAS. This led him to become involved in the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education and to write several papers on mathematics and mechanics in the training of engineers.