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SUMMARY:Measuring the Earth: A Slice of Medieval Mathematics - Professor M
 inhyong Kim (University of Edinburgh)
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CONTACT:Gesa Dünnweber
DESCRIPTION:Al-Biruni (973-1050) was one of the greatest scholars of the m
 iddle ages and a major contributor to the human understanding of a unified
  world. We will discuss some of his remarkable ideas\, the problems he enc
 ountered within the historical context of his times\, and make a few mathe
 matical remarks on the challenges of geodesy.
LOCATION:CMS Meeting Room 2
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