[OLDENBURG] Public Lecture on Cuthbert Tunstall, 9 September, 17.45 BST

[Isobel Falconer]

Public Lecture: Travis Williams (Rhode Island), Tunstall’s Eloquent Arithmetic: Renaissance Mathematics as Pleasure Reading.

The lecture is free to attend, in person at the University of Durham, or online.

Registration is essential via the website for the 2-day Tunstall meeting organised by the BSHM and Durham University: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-art-of-counting-tunstalls-de-arte-supputandi-libri-quattuor-tickets-383071175197

Abstract:
This lecture will place Tunstall’s book in a contemporary cultural frame, with special attention to the era’s delight in variety and multiplicity. Tunstall famously prized eloquence as a goal for his treatise, but this put his work in tension with emergent drives to institute generality as an essential quality of mathematics. As we try to understand this tension and its evolution through the next century of European mathematics, we will find that mathematics was something slightly different for the sixteenth century than it is for us, and relearn important lessons about reading old books with modern eyes.

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