The topic of the seminar varies from year to year and will be announced around October. Motivated suggestions for a specific topic are welcome, please send an email to Steven Wepster (s.a.wepster@uu.nl).
 
Prerequisites. General mathematics at bachelor level. History of Mathematics is preferred but not strictly necessary. The seminar is suitable for bachelor Mathematics students in their last year as well as master students, HPM students with sufficient mathematical background (depending on the subject, please contact in advance) and historically interested Physics students.
 
Format. The first few meetings will be used to introduce the students to the topic and to distribute research tasks among pairs of students. In the next meetings pairs of students report on their research. Each of these meetings is a mix of presentation, excercises and discussion, prepared en presided by the reporting pair. This pair also hands out a homework excercise for the other participants and grades the returned homework. Each pair will report twice and produce a written account (essay) of their research.

Schedule. In consultation with participants. Second semester, period 3+4, two hours per week.
 
Learning goals. After the completion of the course, the student is able to: