2022 April

Title: The Koblitzs' Forays into the History of Science, Humanities, and Global Affairs Presenters: Neal Koblitz（Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington）                     Ann Koblitz（Professor Emerita of Women and Gender S...

Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words contains 59 essays by Albert Einstein from 1934 to 1950, which follows The World as I see it. The book is thematically divided into "Convictions and Beliefs," ...

Sara Dry's The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Dry is a historian of science and has a Ph.D. from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the U...

Time: May 4, 2022, 3:00-5:00 pm Location: Room B206, Humanities Building at Tsinghua University Discussion Leader: Cui Yifeng Commenter: Zang Longkai Host: Professor Christine Luk  ...

  On 1 April 2022, the History of Science Society (HSS) reported the news that the Chinese Ministry of Education had approved "History of science" as one of the new undergraduate majors to be offered under the discipline of  "history"  in China...

On April 6,  Alberto Bardi delivered a  presentation entitled “Copernicus’s Axioms? Tradition and Intuition in the History and Philosophy of Western Mathematical Sciences” at the department, which explored the history of the debates about the foundat...