Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum vitae

Name, scientific degrees

• Helena Durnová, Ph.D.

Department/Faculty/University

• Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University

Current position

• Assistant professor (head of department)

Education and academic qualifications

• 2001: Ph.D. in history of mathematics; Ph.D. thesis: “A history of discrete optimization", supervisor doc. RNDr. Eduard Fuchs, CSc. 1996: Masters in Mathematics and English Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Diploma thesis: “Identity and Escape: Early Novels of George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Jeanette Winterson”, supervisor Stephen P.Hardy, M.A.

Professional experience

• 1999-2001 Assistant, Brno University of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 2001-2011 Assistant Professor, Brno University of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics /Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication 2011-now Assistant Professor, Masaryk University, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education

Teaching activities

• History of mathematics; Discrete mathematics; Set theory

Research activities

• History of computing (especially history of computing in Czechoslovakia, history of programming languages) History of mathematics (modern mathematics)

Professional stays abroad

• Short-term stays: University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Johannes-Guttenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Research projects and grants

• 2007-2010 "Software for Europe" (GAČR / European Science Foundation, programme "Inventing Europe: History of Technology 1870-present) 3/2013-2/2015 (team member)u Centre for the development of gifted children in the South Moravia regien – Gifted pupils. Team leader: doc. Šárka Portešová, FSS MU. (OPVK CZ.1.07/1.2.17/02.0040) 9/2015-6/2016 Interdisciplinary education of junior historians of mathematics (Norway Grants; co-ordinator: Jan Kotůlek, VŠB Ostrava) 2015 -2017 Mathematics, physics, and politics: life and work of Václav Hlavatý (1894-1969) in the international context (Czech Science Foundation grant no. GA15-11070S)

Non-university activities

• - Dějiny věd a techniky – editorial board member since 2002 - Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists - member since 2001, board member since 2007, head of the Committee for History of Mathematics and Physics – since 2007 - Society for History of Science and Technology- member since 2001, board member since 2008 - member of the Czech National Committee for History of Science (since 2008) - member of the Commission for History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) at IUHPST since 2013 - member of European Society for History of Science since 2010 - organizer of interdisciplinary seminars in history of mathematics with Jan Kotůlek and Doubravka Olšáková – since 2011

Most significant professional accomplishments

• Invited lectures: - November 2011, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany (with Jan Kotůlek); - January 2012, lecture within the exhibition „Abacus“, Athens, Greece; - September 2012, Colloquium Logicum, Paderborn, Germany; - November 2015, Mathematics in interwar encyclopedias, Lille, France; - December 2015, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA - July 2016, Oxford University, Great Britain

Major recent publications

• DURNOVÁ, Helena, Caroline EHRHARDT and Laura TURNER. Oswald Veblen's years at Princeton and his role in making Princeton the mathematical centre of the world. Research in progress report. Online. Oberwolfach-Walke: European Mathematical Society, 2022. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.14760/OWR-2022-56. History of mathematics through collaboration: Toward a composite portrait of Oswald Veblen info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena, Jana MALÁ and Pavel ŠIŠMA. Jacob Bernoulli: Umění odhadu (část čtvrtá, pojednávající o aplikaci předchozího učení v záležitostech občanských, mravních a ekonomických) [český překlad a komentáře] (Jacob Bernoulli: The Art of Conjecturing (Part Four) [Czech translation with commentary]). Praha - Brno: Togga - Masarykova univerzita, 2020, 133 pp. Fontes scientiae, sv. 4. ISBN 978-80-210-9559-5. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena. How differential geometry became (temporarily) obsolete in the life of Václav Hlavatý. In Joint Mathematics Meeting 2020, Denver, Colorado. 2020. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena and Tilman SAUER. Václav Hlavatý on intuition in Riemannian space. Historia Mathematica. San Diego, USA: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2019, vol. 49, No 4, p. 60-79. ISSN 0315-0860. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2019.04.002. URL URL info
• BUDÍNOVÁ, Irena, Růžena BLAŽKOVÁ, Milena VAŇUROVÁ and Helena DURNOVÁ. Matematika pro bystré a nadané žáky. Úlohy pro žáky 1. stupně ZŠ, jejich rodiče a učitele (Mathematics for Bright and Gifted Pupils). První. Brno: Edika, 2016, 96 pp. ISBN 978-80-266-1012-0. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena. An American Mathematician with a Czech Name: Václav Hlavatý (1894-1969). In Colloquium "Mathematical Communication during the Cold War". 2016. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena. Václav Hlavatý: a mathematical career that started in Delft. In Exact sciences and mathematics in Central-Eastern Europe from the mid-XIX century till WW II. 2015. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena and Gerhard ALBERTS. Was Algol 60 the first algorithmic language? IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. IEEE Computer Society, 2014, vol. 36, No 4, p. 104-106. ISSN 1058-6180. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena. Václav Láska (1862-1943) and Václav Hruška (1888-1954): machines and practices in calculation in interwar Czechoslovakia. In International Congress on History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (iCHSTM 2013). 2013. info
• BLAŽKOVÁ, Růžena, Milena VAŇUROVÁ, Irena BUDÍNOVÁ and Helena DURNOVÁ. Metodická příručka ke stimulačně obohacujícímu programu v oblasti matematiky v rámci projektu Nadaní žáci (Methodological Guide to stimulating enriching program in mathematics in the project Talented pupils). Brno: Pedagogická fakulta, 2013, 37 pp. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena, Doubravka OLŠÁKOVÁ, Tomáš HERMANN, Alena MÍŠKOVÁ and Miloš HOŘEJŠ. Dokumenty o rozvoji věd v Československu z roku 1960 a jejich historický kontext (Documents about the development of the sciences in Czechoslovakia in 1960 and their historical context). In Hermann, Tomáš; Olšáková, Doubravka. Plánování socialistické vědy: dokumety z roku 1960 ke stavu a rozvoji přírodních a technických věd v Československu. Praha: Pavel Mervart, 2013, p. 11-95. Práce z dějin vědy. ISBN 978-80-7465-040-6. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena. Aby nebolela hlava: popularizace výpočetní techniky v Československu v roce 1957 (Let's avoid headaches: popularization of computing technology in Czechoslovakia in 1957). Pokroky matemaiky, fyziky a astronomie. Praha: Jednota českých matematiků a fyziků, 2012, vol. 57, No 3, p. 191-204. ISSN 0032-2423. URL info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena. JSEP – Jednotný systém elektronických počítačů (The Unified System of Electronic Computers (JSEP)). In Věda a technika v Československu od normalizace k transformaci. Praha: Národní technické muzeum, 2012, p. 75-82. Práce z dějin techniky a přírodních věd 28. ISBN 978-80-7037-210-4. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena. SAPO A five-address computer and the ease of programming. In Turing in Context II. 2012. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena. A Cold War Science? Myths about Computing in Czechoslovakia. In 5th ESHS Athens. 2012. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena. Instrukční sítě a fenomén ALGOL 60 (Instruction networsk and the ALGOL 60 phenomenon). In Věda a technika v Československu v 60. letech 20. století. Praha: Národní technické muzeum, 2011, p. 319-328. Práce z dějin techniky a přírodních věd 25. ISBN 978-80-7037-203-6. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena. Language for algorithms, or algorithmic language? In HAPOC (History and Philosophy of Computing) 11. 2011. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena and Doubravka OLŠÁKOVÁ. Academic Asylum Seekers in the Communist Czechoslovakia. Online. In Marco Stella, Soňa Štrbáňová, Antonín Kostlán. Scholars in exile and dictatorship of the 20th century. Praha: Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities of the Institute for Contemporary History of the ASCR, 2011, p. 90-103. ISBN 978-80-7285-146-1. Proceedings, Scholars in Exile 2011 info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena and Jan KOTŮLEK. Emigration of mathematicians to, from and within former Czechoslovakia, with an emphasis on the Nazi period. In Emigration of Mathematicians and Transmission of Mathematics: Historical Lessons and Consequences of the Third Reich. Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2011, p. 58-61. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.4171/OWR/2011/51. info
• DURNOVÁ, Helena. Sovietization of Czechoslovakian computing: the rise and fall of the SAPO project. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society, 2010, vol. 32, No 2, p. 21-31. ISSN 1058-6180. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2010.7. info
• PAJU, Petri and Helena DURNOVÁ. Computing close to the Iron Curtain: Inter/national Computing Practices in Czechoslovakia and Finland, 1945-1970. Comparative Technology Transfer and Society. 2010, vol. 7, No 3, p. 303-322. ISSN 1542-0132. info

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