Centre for Mathematics, University of Coimbra

Colloquia - Historic

Três bolas matemáticas

2017-09-27

Speaker : Étienne Ghys (ENS-Lyon, France)

This colloquium lecture is part of the Pedro Nunes Lectures 2017, organized by SPM and CIM, and sponsored by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. ...

L'art et la mathématique

2015-11-11

Speaker : Cédric Villani (Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France)

O vídeo da conferência pode ser visto aqui. Resumo: "Ninguém pode ser Matemático se não tiver a alma de um poeta", dizia Sonia Kovalevskaya. No entanto, a lógica matemática dificilmente parece deixar lugar à...

Exploring the Fourth Dimension: "Flatland: the Movie" and the geometric art of Salvador Dali and Ramon Lull

2009-04-29

Speaker : Thomas Banchoff (Brown Univ., USA)

In the new movie version of "Flatland", the central geometric figure in that film is a cube that rotates about its center in three-space producing a number of central slices in the plane including a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, and a hexagon. What are the analogous central...

What geometry in the early history of architecture?

2006-10-17

Speaker : Kim Williams

It is commonly said that Euclidean geometry played a large part in the development of architecture, but is this really true? An examination of the two earliest and best known treatises of architecture, On architecture by Vitruvius and the Sketchbooks of Villard de Honnecourt reveal no trace...