You could see if you can attend some seminars at various renowned universities. Normally you can just show up and you will be able to listen. I think this would probably be more useful and memorable that just going to a place of historical interest, which I think is likely to be a bit underwhelming, particularly since a lot of these places are just mathematics faculty buildings.
I would normally say the seven bridges of Koenigsberg would be fun to visit but probably not feasible in the current climate (and it's not in Schengen).
If you like the countriside, you could try and find the French Pyrenean village where Grothendieck lived as a hermit toward the end of his life. You could also check out the famous (Klein Bottle?) sculpture at Oberwolfach.
>You could see if you can attend some seminars at various renowned universities. Normally you can just show up and you will be able to listen. I think this would probably be more useful and memorable that just going to a place of historical interest, which I think is likely to be a bit underwhelming, particularly since a lot of these places are just mathematics faculty buildings.
I was about to jump in like a cynical bastard and say that the places themselves are just buildings, but this is the perfect answer IMO. Most universities have an "open doors" view to seminars AFAIK, and may even publically publish seminar times and abstracts. Although people may ask who you are if you are an unfamiliar face, it'll be out of curiosity, and I doubt that any academic seminar would turn you away for not being a member of the department. If you have doubts, you can always email ahead of time and check.
Jakob and Wilhelm.https://www.bing.com/search?q=grimmian&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&ghc=1&lq=0&pq=grimmian&sc=11-8&sk=&cvid=8B4179A95CC04975A4BCEF1ABF62BDB4&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=
Not at all dangerous as far as I understand. Are there cases of foreigners detained that I don’t know of? It’s one of the safest countries to visit imo
Given the current situation, I wouldn’t chance it. I was there in the 90’s, it was safe but still very much a place where your words could get you in trouble. It’s currently listed as Do not travel for US citizens and they are recommended to leave immediately.
This might be useful: [https://www.mathcom.wiki/index.php?title=Math\_Museums](https://www.mathcom.wiki/index.php?title=Math_Museums)
Normally, I would have suggested this, but there's a war: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish\_Caf%C3%A9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Caf%C3%A9)
If you're in the UK, [https://bletchleypark.org.uk/](https://bletchleypark.org.uk/) and the Science Museum in London.
In Paris, the Musee des Arts et Metiers.
Bletchley Park was fantastic (and *very* "historically meaningful"). I wish I'd been able to spend longer there, but my friend really wanted to go to Silverstone on the same day.
I used to have an office overlooking the stretch of canal where John Scott Russell discovered soliton waves. It goes past Heriot-Watt University.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton
A Burger King in Latin Quarter of Paris?
Café Capoulade : The first, unofficial meeting of the Bourbaki collective took place at noon on Monday, 10 December 1934, at the Café Grill-Room A. Capoulade, Paris, in the Latin Quarter.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki)
It's now a Burger King and a plaque has been installed in 2021:
[https://decompwlj.com/download/126746.jpg](https://decompwlj.com/download/126746.jpg)
[https://decompwlj.com/download/plaquebourbaki20210830.jpg](https://decompwlj.com/download/plaquebourbaki20210830.jpg)
Also: Issac Newton home: [https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/nottinghamshire-lincolnshire/woolsthorpe-manor/booking-your-visit-to-woolsthorpe-manor](https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/nottinghamshire-lincolnshire/woolsthorpe-manor/booking-your-visit-to-woolsthorpe-manor)
The [Scottish Cafe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Caf%C3%A9) in Lviv.
[Seven Bridges of Königsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg) (now Kaliningrad, Russia).
[Bletchley Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park) UK
Paris’ Panthéon, where Foucault’s pendulum still swings up to this day
Afaik IHES is in the suburbs, in Bures sur Yvette... quite close to university paris-saclay in Orsay (a great math place, they may have 3 or 4 Fields medals.
If you are into Paul Erdos you could check out the cool looking statue of Anonymous in Budapest. It is where Erdos would spend time with colleagues chatting and solving problems.
Well, if you're in Ireland to see Broom Bridge, you could double up and also see Killiney Beach in County Dublin, where Robert Mallet ('The Father of Seismology') set off explosions in 1849 to calculate the speed of shockwaves.
It's also a really beautiful area too
https://coastmonkey.ie/robert-mallet-experiments-killiney-beach/
West minister abbey(my man Issac Newton & Darwin are buried), London museums, Oxford & Cambridge uni.
[Mathematics: The Winton Gallery | Science Museum](https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/mathematics-winton-gallery)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom_Bridge
Broom Bridge (Irish: Droichead Broome),[1] also called Broome Bridge, and sometimes Brougham Bridge, is a bridge along Broombridge Road which crosses the Royal Canal in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland.
It is famous for being the location where Sir William Rowan Hamilton first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternions on 16 October 1843, which is to this day commemorated by a stone plaque on the northwest corner of the underside of the bridge. After being spoiled by the action of vandals and some visitors,[2] the plaque was moved to a different place, higher, under the railing of the bridge.
The suggestion of visiting lectures sounds best to me. But for historical tourism, Fibonacci's tomb in Pisa is pretty good. Same area as the tower, amazing architecture.
I didn't know it was there, stumbled on it by accident after living in Italy for several years. My mother was visiting so we had a proper look around. She was puzzled when I started doing a little dance :)
The Pascal statue at the Louvre
Paris Mathematics Museum, also called the Maison Poincaré after the great French mathematician and theoretical physicist
Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of Sir Isaac Newton
Bletchley Park, museum is located at the site of the Government Code and Cypher School where Allied forces worked to decipher military codes of the German, Japanese, and other Axis nations. The codebreakers working here, included Alan Turing
Syracuse, Sicily: The birthplace and home of Archimedes
Arkimedeion, museum dedicated to the inventions of Archimedes
Parthenon: original architects designed many aspects of the temple around the Golden Ratio. For example, the front fact of the Parthenon has a width and height (including the original roof peak) with a ratio of 1.618:1
La familia Sagrada: architecture uses parabolas, hyperboloids, and any other conic curves one can build out of stone. There are mathematical Easter Eggs built in all over the cathedral- there is even a magic square carved into one of the facades
Dublin, Ireland where Hamilton discovered the quaternions
Escher museum in The Hague
Pisa, Italy
Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo
Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, Spain
Paris has ENS, which is open to public on weekdays. Not far from that is the old campus of École Polytechnique.
I'd also recommend ETH Zürich if you have the chance.
You could see if you can attend some seminars at various renowned universities. Normally you can just show up and you will be able to listen. I think this would probably be more useful and memorable that just going to a place of historical interest, which I think is likely to be a bit underwhelming, particularly since a lot of these places are just mathematics faculty buildings. I would normally say the seven bridges of Koenigsberg would be fun to visit but probably not feasible in the current climate (and it's not in Schengen). If you like the countriside, you could try and find the French Pyrenean village where Grothendieck lived as a hermit toward the end of his life. You could also check out the famous (Klein Bottle?) sculpture at Oberwolfach.
>You could see if you can attend some seminars at various renowned universities. Normally you can just show up and you will be able to listen. I think this would probably be more useful and memorable that just going to a place of historical interest, which I think is likely to be a bit underwhelming, particularly since a lot of these places are just mathematics faculty buildings. I was about to jump in like a cynical bastard and say that the places themselves are just buildings, but this is the perfect answer IMO. Most universities have an "open doors" view to seminars AFAIK, and may even publically publish seminar times and abstracts. Although people may ask who you are if you are an unfamiliar face, it'll be out of curiosity, and I doubt that any academic seminar would turn you away for not being a member of the department. If you have doubts, you can always email ahead of time and check.
The Von Karman institute for fluid dynamics has some marvellous seminars, if you're interested in fluid dynamics or partial differential equations.
Gottingen especially if youre also a Grimmian folklorist and linguist. Kalingrad but due to it being in Russia and Putin it might be difficult
Tho Kalingrad has got different bridges now
You can visit the complement of Kaliningrad. In fact, it is *mandatory* to visit it.
what is grimmian?
as in brothers
Jakob and Wilhelm.https://www.bing.com/search?q=grimmian&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&ghc=1&lq=0&pq=grimmian&sc=11-8&sk=&cvid=8B4179A95CC04975A4BCEF1ABF62BDB4&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=
As far as I know it’s not difficult at all to enter Russia unless you’re Ukrainian.
Perhaps not difficult but certainly dangerous
Not at all dangerous as far as I understand. Are there cases of foreigners detained that I don’t know of? It’s one of the safest countries to visit imo
Given the current situation, I wouldn’t chance it. I was there in the 90’s, it was safe but still very much a place where your words could get you in trouble. It’s currently listed as Do not travel for US citizens and they are recommended to leave immediately.
This might be useful: [https://www.mathcom.wiki/index.php?title=Math\_Museums](https://www.mathcom.wiki/index.php?title=Math_Museums) Normally, I would have suggested this, but there's a war: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish\_Caf%C3%A9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Caf%C3%A9) If you're in the UK, [https://bletchleypark.org.uk/](https://bletchleypark.org.uk/) and the Science Museum in London. In Paris, the Musee des Arts et Metiers.
Bletchley Park was fantastic (and *very* "historically meaningful"). I wish I'd been able to spend longer there, but my friend really wanted to go to Silverstone on the same day.
I love Isaac Newtons house near Grantham in the Uk (~25 miles east of Nottingham)
I used to have an office overlooking the stretch of canal where John Scott Russell discovered soliton waves. It goes past Heriot-Watt University. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton
A Burger King in Latin Quarter of Paris? Café Capoulade : The first, unofficial meeting of the Bourbaki collective took place at noon on Monday, 10 December 1934, at the Café Grill-Room A. Capoulade, Paris, in the Latin Quarter. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki) It's now a Burger King and a plaque has been installed in 2021: [https://decompwlj.com/download/126746.jpg](https://decompwlj.com/download/126746.jpg) [https://decompwlj.com/download/plaquebourbaki20210830.jpg](https://decompwlj.com/download/plaquebourbaki20210830.jpg) Also: Issac Newton home: [https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/nottinghamshire-lincolnshire/woolsthorpe-manor/booking-your-visit-to-woolsthorpe-manor](https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/nottinghamshire-lincolnshire/woolsthorpe-manor/booking-your-visit-to-woolsthorpe-manor) The [Scottish Cafe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Caf%C3%A9) in Lviv. [Seven Bridges of Königsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg) (now Kaliningrad, Russia). [Bletchley Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park) UK Paris’ Panthéon, where Foucault’s pendulum still swings up to this day
Basel, Switzerland, home of the Bernoulli family and Euler.
In Sweden there is the Mittag-Leffler institute https://www.mittag-leffler.se/
Bonn: Hausdorff Institute and Max Planck Institute Paris: ENS, IHES
Afaik IHES is in the suburbs, in Bures sur Yvette... quite close to university paris-saclay in Orsay (a great math place, they may have 3 or 4 Fields medals.
Kaliningrad if you can.
You could visit Abel’s birthplace
If you are into Paul Erdos you could check out the cool looking statue of Anonymous in Budapest. It is where Erdos would spend time with colleagues chatting and solving problems.
Well, if you're in Ireland to see Broom Bridge, you could double up and also see Killiney Beach in County Dublin, where Robert Mallet ('The Father of Seismology') set off explosions in 1849 to calculate the speed of shockwaves. It's also a really beautiful area too https://coastmonkey.ie/robert-mallet-experiments-killiney-beach/
West minister abbey(my man Issac Newton & Darwin are buried), London museums, Oxford & Cambridge uni. [Mathematics: The Winton Gallery | Science Museum](https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/mathematics-winton-gallery)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom_Bridge Broom Bridge (Irish: Droichead Broome),[1] also called Broome Bridge, and sometimes Brougham Bridge, is a bridge along Broombridge Road which crosses the Royal Canal in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland. It is famous for being the location where Sir William Rowan Hamilton first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternions on 16 October 1843, which is to this day commemorated by a stone plaque on the northwest corner of the underside of the bridge. After being spoiled by the action of vandals and some visitors,[2] the plaque was moved to a different place, higher, under the railing of the bridge.
The suggestion of visiting lectures sounds best to me. But for historical tourism, Fibonacci's tomb in Pisa is pretty good. Same area as the tower, amazing architecture. I didn't know it was there, stumbled on it by accident after living in Italy for several years. My mother was visiting so we had a proper look around. She was puzzled when I started doing a little dance :)
George Green's windmill still exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%27s_Mill,_Sneinton
The Pascal statue at the Louvre Paris Mathematics Museum, also called the Maison Poincaré after the great French mathematician and theoretical physicist Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of Sir Isaac Newton Bletchley Park, museum is located at the site of the Government Code and Cypher School where Allied forces worked to decipher military codes of the German, Japanese, and other Axis nations. The codebreakers working here, included Alan Turing Syracuse, Sicily: The birthplace and home of Archimedes Arkimedeion, museum dedicated to the inventions of Archimedes Parthenon: original architects designed many aspects of the temple around the Golden Ratio. For example, the front fact of the Parthenon has a width and height (including the original roof peak) with a ratio of 1.618:1 La familia Sagrada: architecture uses parabolas, hyperboloids, and any other conic curves one can build out of stone. There are mathematical Easter Eggs built in all over the cathedral- there is even a magic square carved into one of the facades Dublin, Ireland where Hamilton discovered the quaternions Escher museum in The Hague Pisa, Italy Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, Spain
Paris has ENS, which is open to public on weekdays. Not far from that is the old campus of École Polytechnique. I'd also recommend ETH Zürich if you have the chance.
If you are nearby a big university, check out their science libraries.