Presentations and workshops

Presentations:

Presentation: The artwork of Margi Lake and Iran, annual meeting of the Foundation for Mathematics and Art, November 19, 2022:
English version Part 1   Part 2
Nederlands: Deel 1   Deel 2

Visit to the Mathematics Village near Eskişehir and Astrolabe Program (Oct 24-25, 2022)

pdf for presentation for COMHISMA 14, Sousse (Tunesia), May 2022, on recent researches in mathematical astronomy in Islamic civilization

Presentation held in Lefkoşa, Northern Cyprus, 2022, on an exhibition on Islamic science in 100 objects.

History of science in Islamic civilization:
Eindhoven (2015) (presentation in Dutch)
Bonn (2016) (presentation in English)

Presentation (in Dutch) for a general public on Isfahan and tilings in the Stadskantoor (Town Hall) in Utrecht, 2017.
To transmit something of the atmosphere, I played Shajarian's performance of the first Persian poem (az dar dar Amadi) in the presentation.

Workshops:

Short video (English and Turkish) on astrolabe workshops in Northern Cyprus (January 2022). Note: the material for the astrolabe workshop itself is not available online.

Materials for a workshop (in English and Dutch) on the abjad system of numerals, used in medieval Arabic manuscripts in mathematics and astronomy (2021-2022)

Workshop (English and Dutch) on sine tables in the Islamic scientific tradition (November 2021)

Presentation in English on the general idea of workshops, Utrecht University 2019.

Workshops in Dutch:

Workshop over de Taylorreeks van de sinus in India in de 15e eeuw [workshop on Taylor series in India in the 15th century]. Nationale Wiskundedagen 2020.
Handout   Vertalingen van Sanskrit teksten (deze twee documenten afdrukken en aan het begin van de workshop uitdelen; de handout kan eventueel in drie delen afzonderlijk na elkaar). Presentatie deel 1,   deel 2.   Antwoorden bij de opgaven uit de handout.

Workshop "toen irrationale getallen nog geen getallen waren", [when irrational numbers were not yet numbers] on the mathematics of Jacob de Gelder (1765-1848) (in Dutch): summary   handout. Nationale Wiskundedagen 2008, in samenwerking met Wiggert Loonstra.

Voor meer workshops in het Nederlands, en ander onderwijsmateriaal in het Nederlands, zie mijn speciale pagina.


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