The acoustic and musical origins of harmonic analysis (conf.), por Olivier Darrigol

 

 

O Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa convida:

 

AMANHÃ, DIA 12 DE ABRIL, ÀS 17H00

 

THE ACOUSTIC AND MUSICAL ORIGINS OF HARMONIC ANALYSIS

 

CONFERÊNCIA POR OLIVIER DARRIGOL

SALA 8.2.14, FCUL

 

 

No âmbito do projecto A Física dos Princípios e a Epistemologia Científica: os casos de Mach, Hertz e Poincaré.

 

Abstract: Harmonic analysis, or the mathematical science of trigonometric series, has eighteenth-century roots in the physico-mathematical discussion of acoustic vibrations. Its inventor, Daniel Bernoulli, and its main opponents, d’Alembert and Euler, were deeply involved in music theory. Their conflict depended on the different ways in which they conceived the relations between physics, mathematics, and music.

 

 

Olivier Darrigol is a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. His research focuses on the history of quantum theory and of electrodynamics.

 


 

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