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SUMMARY:Communicating mathematics through the household in Regency Britain
  - Brigitte Stenhouse (The Open University)
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DESCRIPTION:As a female mathematician in Regency Britain\, Mary Somerville
  (1780-1872) relied on informal\, social networks in order to access mathe
 matical ideas and communities. Her extensive papers and correspondence dem
 onstrate that\, although this reliance was more prominent for Somerville o
 wing to her gender\, in fact such networks within and across households we
 re a non-trivial part of the organisation of science and mathematics at th
 e time. This talk will delineate and explore the role of the household\, a
 nd the mathematics which took place within it\, and work to deconstruct th
 e dominance of &ldquo\;gentlemen of science&rdquo\; in the Regency period.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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