Václav Hlavatý: a mathematical career that started in Delft

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Václav Hlavatý: a mathematical career that started in Delft

DURNOVÁ, Helena

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Václav Hlavatý: a mathematical career that started in Delft

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DURNOVÁ, Helena

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Exact sciences and mathematics in Central-Eastern Europe from the mid-XIX century till WW II. 2015

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angličtina

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Prezentace na konferencích

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60101 History

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není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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RIV/00216224:14410/15:00081620

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Pedagogická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Václav Hlavatý (1894-1969); J. A. Schouten; history of differential geometry

Změněno: 29. 2. 2016 09:40, Mgr. Helena Durnová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

One of the biggest events in the history of physics in the 20th century was undoubtedly Einstein’s relativity theory. Mathematicians also had their own specific community in this, formed Ricci, Levi-Civita, Schouten, and Struik. Although it can be claimed that Weyl, Klein, Levi-Civita, and Ricci-Curbastro were more important and/or influential, it was clearly Schouten who inspired the Czech mathematician Václav Hlavatý to work on this topic. Václav Hlavatý studied mathematics at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague and descriptive geometry at the Czech Technical University. He continued working in geometry, but the turning point in his career is marked by his one-semester stay with Jan Arnoldus Schouten in Delft in 1924. After this stay, Hlavatý submitted his habilitation (1 October 1924) and became deeply interconnected with the community of European differential geometers. Hlavatý’s career is closely tied with the search of geometry for Einstein’s unified field theory. In the period between the wars, Hlavatý was an active teacher and researcher in mathematics: together with J. A. Schouten, he gave lectures in Moscow; in 1927, he was on a research visit in Rome simultaneously with Schouten’s pupil Dirk Jan Struik; and he also gave talks in Bucharest and Cracow. Scientific contacts between Delft and Prague will be embedded in a broader context, as there had been very fruitful relations of Czech physicists with H.A. Lorentz and P. Ehrenfest. In October 1912, Ehrenfest substituted Lorentz in Leiden. His arrival to Leiden was influential on the community of mathematicians and physicists in Leiden (Alberts 1994). In the background of their daily work, there were boiling big questions on the role of mathematics in cosmology. These questions were also discussed in Prague. In my talk, I would like to use the case of Václav Hlavatý to illustrate the importance and impact of international contacts of Czechoslovak mathematicians in the interbellum.

Návaznosti

GA15-11070S, projekt VaV

Název: Matematika, fyzika a politka: Život a dílo Václava Hlavatého (1894-1969) v mezinárodním kontextu

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Matematika, fyzika a politika: Život a dílo Václava Hlavatého (1894-1969) v mezinárodním kontextu

Citovat

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.

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DURNOVÁ, Helena. Václav Hlavatý: a mathematical career that started in Delft. In \textit{Exact sciences and mathematics in Central-Eastern Europe from the mid-XIX century till WW II.}. 2015.

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