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SUMMARY:Modern historiography of applied mathematics: content\, methodolog
 y\, deficits - Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (University of Agder)
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DESCRIPTION:The talks aims at giving a global and necessarily provisional 
 view of a variety of definitory\, methodical\, and cognitive questions con
 nected to the ups and downs in the attention to and appreciation of applie
 d mathematics during its history. Sociological\, political and ideological
  factors will be discussed as well as changes in disciplinary delimitation
 s between mathematics\, fields of applications such as astronomy\, physics
 \, engineering\, biology and economics\, hybrid disciplines such as aerody
 namics\, stochastics and information technologies. Special attention will 
 be given to historical changes in the triangle of numerical\, geometrical 
 and instrumental methods and to modeling in applied mathematics. The role 
 of persons for the rise of applied mathematics from about 1900 will be ill
 uminated in overview for key figures such as Klein\, Pearson\, Runge\, Bor
 el\, Mises\, K&aacute\;rm&aacute\;n\, Lefschetz\, and Wiener. New requirem
 ents since the advent of personal computers and information technologies f
 rom the 1980s will be tentatively discussed. A view of crucial literature 
 plus desiderata and lacunae will be given.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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