
The Department of Classics invites you to the
Twenty-Ninth Annual Carl C. Schlam Memorial Lecture
Professor Reviel Netz
Stanford University
The Lecture
Title: TBA
The Speaker
Reviel Netz
Prof. Netz's main field is the history of pre-modern mathematics. His research involves the wider issues of the history of cognitive practices, e.g. visual culture, the history of the book, and literacy, and numeracy. His books from Cambridge University Press include The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: a Study in Cognitive History (1999, Runciman Award), The Transformation of Early Mediterranean Mathematics: From Problems to Equations (2004), Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic (2009), Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture (2020), A New History of Greek Mathematics (2022) and Why the Ancient Greeks Matter (2025).
This event is open to the public.