The 2005 James "Duke" Sehnert  Memorial Lecture

This year's Sehnert lecturer will be

The lecture will be held

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Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics Isaac Newton (1642-1727) did important work in mathematics and physics, but did you know he also worked in alchemy and church history? He wrote two of the greatest scientific works ever published, Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematics (1687) and Optics (1704), neither of which was primarily a mathematical work. We will describe his life, his education, and his work, especially his discovery of the calculus.

V. Frederick Rickey, a logician turned historian, became Professor of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY in the summer of 1998. After earning three degrees from the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D. 1968) he went to Bowling Green State University where he rose through the professorial ranks to the rank of Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus. He has broad interests in the history of mathematics and is especially interested in the development of the calculus. He loves teaching and enjoys giving lectures to mathematicians about the history of their field.

Sponsored by the Department of Mathematics at NKU as well as by Center for Integrative Natural Science and Mathematics (CINSAM). For further information, contact Dr. Andy Long at longa@nku.edu or by phone at (859) 572-5794. A campus map is available at www.nku.edu/~library/map/campus.html