Talks / lezingen

Presentatie ouderdag, 6 april 2013.
Berekening van de oppervlakte van de donut.

Lezing: Wiskunde en Islamitische cultuur, 27 februari 2013, Studium Generale, 400 jaar Arabisch, Leiden.
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Mecca clock tower trailer

Lezing over een Arabisch astronomisch handschrift in de Universiteitsbibliotheek in Utrecht, de Utrecht Zij. Feb. 2013.

Otto Neugebauer Lecture, Kraków, 6th European Mathematics Conference, July 2: Presentation   Written form of lecture

Presentation: Inspired science: methods for finding the qibla in the medieval Islamic tradition Umm al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, April 17, 2012.

Two presentations/workshops for the visit of 23 students and professors of KFUPM to Utrecht on March 23, 2012
Presentation on the Mecca-finder, presentation on the astrolabe.

Presentation: Scientific computing in medieval Islamic civilization
Presentation on Islamic tilings and infinity, Part 1,   Part 2.

Presentatie: enkele achtergronden van Islamitische mozaieken, 27 augustus 2011
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Primitieve versie van de astrolabium-workshop
Artikel over het principe van het astrolabium: John North, The Astrolabe, Scientific American 230:1, pp. 96-106 (January, 1974).

Webpage belonging to the talk "De zonnecirkel" (the solar circle) at the Nationale Wiskundedagen, January 29, 2011.

Presentation: Three mathematicians and their interactions: Ludolph van Ceulen, Adriaan van Roomen, Joseph Justus Scaliger (1590-1600) Lorentz Center Conference: Mathematical Life in the Dutch Republic, Leiden, December 7, 2010.

Presentation: Dead texts versus living teachers: remarks on the transmission of Greek mathematics into Arabic. History of Science Society Meeting, Montreal, August 6, 2010.

Lecture: Three instruments for finding the direction and distance to Mecca: European cartography or Islamic astronomy? Istanbul, IRCICA, Islamic Astronomy Panel, May 7, 2010.

Lecture: Ahmad ibn Mohammad ibn Abdaljalil Sagzi: a Sistani Scientist from the Fourth Century Hijra, Zahedan University, and Zabol Mehbang Astronomical Society, May 23-25, 2006.


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