Project information
Modern mathematics inspired by relativity: life and work of Václav Hlavatý (1894-1969) in international context
- Project Identification
- GA15-11070S
- Project Period
- 1/2015 - 12/2017
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Standard Projects
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Education
Václav Hlavatý devoted a significant part of his career to those areas of mathematics that are related to the search for a unified field theory,inspired by EInstein's relativity theory. His life and career strongly reflect both the developments of science and the major events in politicalhistory of the 20th century: the two world wars, the establishment of Czechoslovakia, the threat of the Nazi regime, WWII-occuppation, theovertaking of the government of Czechoslovakia by the Communist Party, and the Cold War. Centered around the fascinating biography ofVáclav Hlavatý, the proposed project will relate this story rich in interactions between mathematics and physics, and between science andpolitics, including Hlavatý's contacts with mathematicians and physicists abroad (Jan Arnoldus Schouten, Dirk Jan Struik, Albert Einstein).The objective of this project is compiling a detailed monograph on the life and work of an outstanding Czech mathematician Václav Hlavatý(1894-1969) in the context of the development of mathematics on the international level as well as in the broader cultural and political context
Publications
Total number of publications: 16
2020
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How differential geometry became (temporarily) obsolete in the life of Václav Hlavatý.
Year: 2020, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Václav Hlavatý a reformy vzdělávání 1945-1948
Učitel matematiky, year: 2020, volume: 28, edition: 4
2019
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Václav Hlavatý on intuition in Riemannian space
Historia Mathematica, year: 2019, volume: 49, edition: 4, DOI
2018
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A life with relativity? Václav Hlavatý (1894-1969), a mathematician
Year: 2018, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Early reception of relativity theory by physicists in interwar Czechoslovakia
On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories (In 4 Volumes) Proceedings of the MG14 Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy, 12 – 18 July 2015, year: 2018
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O křivkách a křivostech
Year: 2018, type: Article in Periodical (without peer review)
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Tradition: an advantage, or a hindrance for research in mathematics?
Year: 2018, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Václav Hlavatý (1894—1969): how a mathematician made his country famous
Year: 2018, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
2017
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Kterak nadaný kvartán udolal učitele
Svět nadání, year: 2017, volume: VI, edition: 1
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Václav Hlavatý (1894–1969). Cesta k jednotě
Year: 2017, number of pages: 176 s.