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History of Mathematics

Course details

University Name
The Open University
Department
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Course Title
History of Mathematics
Qualification, duration, mode
PhD 36FT 72PT variableDL*MPhil 15FT 24PT variableDL
Months of entry
October
Entry requirements
PhD: The normal minimum entrance requirement is an upper second class honours degree or master's degree, relevant to the proposed area of study, from a recognised higher education institution in the UK. You should also have experience of academic research in the previous four years, normally in the form of either a master's degree in research methods, an undergraduate degree with a research element in the final year, or work-related experience with evidence through research reports. If you're not sure if you meet the entry requirements, please contact us (research-degrees-team@open.ac.uk).
MPhil: see http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/ for more information.
Funding
Please see The Open University website http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/ for more information.
Course description
The History of Mathematics Group conducts internationally recognised work in several areas of the history of modern mathematics, and collaborates with many historians of mathematics in Europe. A long-running interest in celestial mechanics has recently led to an investigation of the network of astronomers in the years around 1900, and an overlapping international project on the role of mathematics and mathematicians in the First World War. Another project concerns the work of G.D. Birkhoff and the development of topological dynamics.

We also study analysis and geometry in the 19th century. A joint project with a colleague in Milan on the history of complex analysis is concluding, and we expect to embark on another project shortly, which will take up aspects of the history of geometry.

Potential research projects

- Geometry and analysis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- History of celestial mechanics in the nineteenth century.
- History of dynamical systems.

Current / recent research projects

Our current PhD students are working on:

- Forest Ray Moulton's Periodic Orbits and his quest for a new Lunar Theory.
- Selected correspondence of Leonhard Euler.
Contact name
Miss Sara Griffin
Telephone
+44 (0)1908 655552
Email
mcs-mathematics-enquiries@open.ac.uk
Web
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/

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