Description
Jackie Stedall talks about Thomas Harriot, a notable mathematician who lived in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She talks about
Harriot's mathematics (at time 0:16)
Was Harriot a "professional mathematician"? (0:42)
Harriot's patrons (0:51)
Mathematical career patterns in Harriot's time (1:32)
Harriot's interest in navigation (2:22)
The problem of stacking cannon balls (3:14)
Mathematics without immediate practical applications (4:11)
Did Harriot work collaboratively with others? (4:59)
Harriot's communications with other mathematicians (5:51)
How Harrriot disseminated his work (6:45)
Harriot's reputation as a mathematician (7:45)
Would Harriot have described himself as a mathematician? (9:50)
Were Harriot's patrons interested in his mathematics? (10:48)
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