I learned of Christopher Wren through the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson and I am forever fascinated by this section of history, the persons in it, and the developments in science in it. Great talk!
I think we very rarely want to focus light onto a single point, and it's confusing to students to describe the goal of lenses as such. A lens is designed to create an image. It just so happens that in doing so, the lens focuses light through a single point
The Mathematical Life of Sir Christopher Wren 1831pm 9.3.23 the most dramatic building situated in london - st paul's was worth visiting... it's the only aspect of wren i enjoy. customary beauty ie: i am not particularly enamoured of symmetry an alleged natural beauty - as we know nature is not strictly symmetrical.
Maybe you are not read on the math. Many writers have tried to explain it for a general public, Ian Stewart in "Fearful Symmetry" for only one example.
2:46 A notion from the Ancient Greeks, no? 4:02 No room there for theological truths. Brave for the 17th century. 16:11 Fortune favors the prepared mind.
I learned of Christopher Wren through the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson and I am forever fascinated by this section of history, the persons in it, and the developments in science in it. Great talk!
Even I, who failed maths 'O' level 4 times, was interested in this extremely well presented talk.
I've been there, Tim. I got it on the 5th.Never surrender.
Excellent lecture.
I'm terrible with math and I found this lecture absolutely fascinating.
Me too!
Sara Hart has the drool, yet elegant, humor of a mathematician...connected through the 50 pound note. (-; So clear, also! A delightful lecture.
Been looking forward to this. Excellent lecture.
Oh! World of the Christopher Wren's mathematics!))
Professor S.Hart
I think we very rarely want to focus light onto a single point, and it's confusing to students to describe the goal of lenses as such. A lens is designed to create an image. It just so happens that in doing so, the lens focuses light through a single point
Wow... my great great great great great great great great great great grandfathers cousin is famous... wow
Brava!
The Mathematical Life of Sir Christopher Wren 1831pm 9.3.23 the most dramatic building situated in london - st paul's was worth visiting... it's the only aspect of wren i enjoy. customary beauty ie: i am not particularly enamoured of symmetry an alleged natural beauty - as we know nature is not strictly symmetrical.
Maybe you are not read on the math. Many writers have tried to explain it for a general public, Ian Stewart in "Fearful Symmetry" for only one example.
2:46 A notion from the Ancient Greeks, no?
4:02 No room there for theological truths. Brave for the 17th century.
16:11 Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Wonderful lecturer but l did find all the hand waving distracting and later very annoying