Free Lecture- Galileo’s Journey to the Underworld: the case for interdisciplinar

The Annual Provost's Lecture

In 1588, the young Galileo delivered some lectures that were impressive enough to secure him a mathematics professorship at the University of Pisa. His subject? The geometry of Dante’s Inferno. In our Annual Provost's Lecture, Professor Sarah Hart looks at some of Galileo’s deductions, and how the questions raised may have influenced his later mathematical research. Using this and other examples of creative work in mathematics that crosses our modern ideas of subject boundaries, the lecture will argue that thinking across disciplines is not only intellectually exciting but academically vital.

Free, but booking essential:
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/galileos-journey-underworld-case-interdisciplinary-thinking

## Professor Sarah Hart

### Professor of Geometry

Sarah Hart was the first woman Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, and was appointed in 2020.