EDINBURGH

Math sites:

Napier University – to see Merchiston Tower of John Napier.

Lauriston Castle – belonged to the Napier family

St. Cuthbert’s Church – there is a memorial to Napier here. There is also a memorial to Alexander Nasmyth who is the artist who taught Mary Somerville.

Old Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh – grave of John Playfair (next to David Hume)

Maxwell Statue – recent and near Old Calton & Maxwell House where James Clerk Maxwell was born is at 14 India Street, Edinburgh about a fifteen minute walk from the railway station which is in the centre of Edinburgh.

Scottish National Gallery – portrait of Robert Burns here done by Alexander Nasmyth who taught Mary Somerville. After learning perspective from him she got a copy of Euclid’s Elements and taught herself from it.

University of Edinburgh. – Maxwell, Tait (studied here), John Playfair (prof) -while there look into things the outreach program may be putting on. Take a self-guilded tour http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/undergraduate/visiting/self-guided

Near Edignburgh:

Burntisland – 31-32 Somerville Square is Mary Somerville’s house - childhood home of Mary Somerville, where she used to collect stones and shells and look out her window at night to see the stars (according to her daughter’s biography of her in the Gutenberg Project. John Playfair also lived here.

Jedburgh – the manse here is where Mary Somerville was born – at the home of an aunt and uncle – also the home of her second husband. She was known in Edinburgh as “The Rose of Jedburgh.” (Youtube presentation by RS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBTeXabfqtw )

Personal stops: Arthur’s Seat!!! Edinburgh Castle??

LINCOLN

Math sites:

Lincoln Cathedral – stained glass window and plaque to George Boole

Boole’s House and School – 3 Pottergate, Lincoln

Day-trips from Lincoln:

Woolsthorpe Manor – Sir Isaac Newton’s Home

Hucknall – burial place of the Byrons – Ada Byron Lovelace and Lord Byron

CAMBRIDGE

Math sites:

Newton’s Apple Tree (Trinity?)

Trinity Great Court – There’s a fountain near the center that has been there since before the time of Newton, and there’s a clock tower on the north side of the quad famous for a double ring. It was immortalized by Wordsworth at “Trinity’s loquacious clock.”

Trinity College Chapel – plaques honoring Cayley, Hardy, Ramanujan, Russel, etc. and statue of Isaac Newton

Trinity College – Frank Ramsey, Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, G. H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanugan, John Littlewood, Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Clerk Maxwell, (http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/about ) Note – to be allowed to take pictures with a tripod, permission must be gotten in advance from the bursar.

Wren Library – display of Newton’s copy of Principia with his notes in it.

Nevile’s Court – Littlewood’s rooms were at Staricase D (and Hardy’s were not far from there). Also It was in the north cloister that Isaac Newton stamped his foot to time the echoes and determine the speed of sound for the first time.

Queen’s College Library – Mary Everest Boole was librarian there after the death of her husband.

Peterhouse – William Thompson (Lord Kelvin), Peter G. Tait, J. C. Maxwell

Center for Mathematical Sciences – former office of Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.

Cambridge Central Library (public library) – where Andrew Wiles came across FLT

(Henry Briggs attended and then was elected fellow of St. John’s College 1577 – first professor at Gresham College London - Savillian Chair at Oxford in 1619)

Dear Mrs.Meyer,I remember taking your math 101 class in the spring of this year. I just wanted to thank you for passing me with a C. It was such a hard semester at that time because I was taking the math class as well as two philosophy classes. I had many doubts with passing math, but because of your help, I was able to learn how to deal with a problem the best I could. And I was so happy when I found out that G.H. Hardy was one of your favorite mathematicians. It was an honor to tell his story! thanks so much Heidi Meyer, I truly appreciate you for believing in me. Lydia Hulse

Personal stops:

Punting on the Cam

Evensong – King’s Chapel – Trinity College Cambridge (home of Nine Lessons and Carols – recommended by Dunham)

The Bell Tower of Great St. Mary’s (climb the spiral staircase – 2 pounds – and see a great view of Cambridge – as well as the bells and the ringers and so on – also recommended by Dunham)

Third Court, St. John’s College – Dunham’s favorite inner sanctum in which you are “chillingly isolated” from the 21st

century and can half believe you are in the year 1680. (Henry Briggs – see above.)

OXFORD

Math sites:

Oxford University Colleges – Balliol College (Charles Hinton b. 1853) – Somerville College (named for Mary Somerville) – Henry Briggs is buried in the chapel of Merton College – Christ Church (Lewis Carroll). (Visit Magdalin too for association with C. S. Lewis.)

Mathematical Institute – building named after Andrew Wiles – Penrose tiling at entrance

Queen’s College Library – first edition Whetstone of Witte by Robert Recorde – permission granted to access it.

Bodleian Library – Mary Somerville’s collection (owned by Somerville Library) – includes correspondence with Lovelace. Also here is the oldest copy of Euclid’s Elements (888 AD).

University Museum of Natural History – contains elements related Lewis Carroll who visited with Alice and her sisters and was inspired by some of the displays there including, perhaps, a painting of a Dodo. http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/visiting/exhibit.htm (possibly also the nearby Pitts River Museum). “Precocious in mathematics, he was soon awarded a fellowship, which, in the Oxford of that period, bore two restrictions: he was forbidden to marry, and he had to take holy orders within four years of completing his M.A.”

Day-trips from Oxford:

Bletchley Park - Alan Turing – possibly add trip to Kavli (Chicheley) hall Royal Society International Center, Buckinghamshire (northeast of Bletcheley) – at least check to see if any events open to the public are taking place there.

Personal stops:

The Kilns and other Lewis associated spots such as The Eagle and Child and Holy Trinity Headington Quarry – maybe crematorium (if Joy’s plaque is here) Possibly go to church where Lewis did if there on a Sunday.

Radcliffe Camera – a science library near the Bodleian – cool building (featured in The Golden Compass)

LONDON

Math sites:

British Museum – Rosetta Stone (and, if on display, Rhind Papyrus)

British Library – Newton’s notes (including experiments on his own eye)

Royal Society – attend an event if it is being held (first come, first served) 6-9 Carlton House Terr. (across from the NE corner of St. James’s Park – somewhat between Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square – near the Mall)

Personal stops:

National Portrait Gallery – Bronte Portraits (photographs can be taken!!)

Westminster Abbey

Hampton Court Palace (perhaps for a haunted tour at night? – or get there by boat on Thames?)

St. James’ Park

Hyde Park

National Gallery????

Kensington Gardens and Palace??

Temple Church???

The Tower (and St. Peter ad Vincula)???

Windsor Palace???

Highgate Cemetery – Rosetti’s???? (who influenced Lewis Carroll)

LOOK INTO LONDON PASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Compare prices, though – might not be a deal – seems like some weirdness, like a “deductible” on transportation (max amount you have to pay before it kicks in? – and it is only one entry per site – and a maximum cost amount covered per day – etc. might be cheaper just to pay for transport and entry – are there other sorts of passes? Does this get me past lines?

PARIS

Math sites:

CNAM – the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, “a store of new and useful inventions” established in 1794 is a museum of technology and innovation and contains multiple copies of Pascal’s Pascaline (60 rue Réaumur - Paris 3rd arrondissement – 1.6km from the Louvre)

Montparnasse Cemetery – Poincaré, Viete, and Galois buried here.

Pere Lachaise Cemetery –Sophie Germain, Fourier, Laplace (?) buried here.

Abbey of Saint-Germain-de-Pres –Descartes buried here. This is near Montparnasse Cemetery, between it and the Siene – Focus on this rather than on day trips to La Fleche and Descartes, which have NO transit service, and which would require both renting a car and spending the night while still holding a room in Paris.

Tuileries Gardens – Mary Fairfax Somerville wrote that when she arrived in Paris she was so weak, that she always remained in bed writing till one o'clock, and then, either went to sit in the Tuileries gardens, or else received visits.

13 rue de Savoie – house where Sophie Germain died (plaque on house). She was born in a house on Rue Saint-Denis.

Gentilly, Glacier Pond, 13th arondissment – (if I can find it!) – site of Galois duel

Bourg-la-Rein – a commune in the suburbs of Paris 5.7 miles south of city center, birthplace of Galois. After a political conflict his father moved the family to Rue Jean-de-Beauvais, Paris.

Cochin Hospital – 14th arrondisement, 27 Rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques. Galois died here.

Universities – Ecole Normal Superior was attended by Galois, but it was at a different location in his time. Bourbaki is centered here. Pierre Fatou also studied here (1898). Ecole Polytechnique – Gaston Julia was a professor there after WWI; Lagrange was first professor of analysis here, and Sophie Germain obtained lecture notes and sent her work to Lagrange; the university opened when she was 18. Cauchy studied and taught here. University of Paris = Sorbonne was attended by Nicole Oresme who was far ahead of his time and in 1350 was beginning to unite algebra and geometry, the fullness of which would have to wait for the 1600s and Descartes and Fermat. Also Poincaré taught here.

Personal stops:

Notre Dame

Eiffel Tower

Louvre

Night boat ride on the Sienne

Musee de Orsay – take picture through the clock towards the Louvre (as in National Geographic) – ugh – pictures forbidden

Chartres? (day trip)

HEIDELBERG

Math sites:

University of Heidelberg archives – Sonya Kovalevsky (also personal as pertaining to 15x great grandpa and his registry in the archives of 1593 – permission granted to access library)

Heidelberg Castle – One time home of Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia who carried on a celebrated correspondence with Descartes.

GÖTTINGEN

Math sites:

University – Gauss, Dedekind, Dirichlet, Riemann, Hilbert, Mobius, Kovalevsky (dissertation here), Noether (lectured under Hilbert’s name until her habilitation was finally approved), Klein (according to the Dauben book the university library contains correspondence between Klein and Cantor). Here is a link to information about non-local visitors to the library and access to materials: http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/first-time-visitor/plan-your-visit/services-for-non-local-readers/#c2794

Gottingen Collection of Mathematical Models and Instruments: Mathematical Institute – (part of the university?) contains models and instruments from the 18th to the 21st century – entry is free – open Monday through Friday 8am-8pm, and it is part of the public space of the mathematical institute Bunsenstrasse 3-5, 37073 Göttingen http://modelcollection.uni-goettingen.de/

Mathematical Institute – Colloquia are held here; the building was opened in 1930 by Hilbert and Courant. Check this site for dates and details: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html I used this link to send a query regarding visiting the university http://www.math-cs.uni-goettingen.de/dekanat.html

Royal University Observatory – rooms of Gauss, Dirichlet and Riemann

Albanifriedhof Cemetery – where Gauss is buried – quite a large tombstone surrounded by ivy.

Stadtfriedhof (City Cemetery) – Hilbert’s grave and famous tombstone – also Klein.

(The mother of all amazingly helpful sites – from Prof. Laurent Bartholdi’s page: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zOjl-QioJJD0.k10Fgz7d_inI&msa=0 )

Some locations from the above site – though I am not sure what they represent in each case: Wilhelm-Weber str. 29 and David-Hilbert str. 1 (Hilbert), Planck str. 15 (Minkowski), Geismar Landstr. 11, Sternwarte (Gauss), Kurze str. 2 (Farkas Bolyai), Stegemühlenweg 51 (Noether), Barfüßerstr. 18 (Riemann)

Personal stops:

Places related to the Brothers Grimm who were both professors at the University of Gottingen, Jacob also having been head librarian. They lost their professorships after having been part of the Gottingen Seven.

HALLE (SAALE)

Math sites:

Martin Luther University – Halle-Wittenburg -

Nervenklinik – where Cantor died (NB he apparently visited other sanataria as well. Dauben p. 357 #39)

Cantor’s House – Handelstrasse Street

Giebichenstein Cemetery - Cantor’s Grave is on the eastern boundary of the Giebichenstein Cemetery, in the “peace route” (freidenstrasse).

Stadtgottesacker Cemetery Complex – interesting in its own right, also Heine and F. Meyer buried here https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtgottesacker

(Faculty contact: Dr. Manfred Stern – his CV is at: http://www.math.bme.hu/~schmidt/cv.htm his email is info@manfred- stern .de

Personal stops:

Marienkirche – Where Handel was baptized and learned to play organ – where Luther gave his last sermon – where Luther’s death mask is. Try to be in town on Sunday to attend services. Open times, service times, organ times, etc. can be found at this site: http://www.visit-luther.de/locations/halle-saale/market-church/

Possible hotels:

TRYP by Wyndham Halle @ $63 a night, 0.8 miles from city center, rated 4 of 5 stars

Dorint Charlottenhof Halle (Saale) @ $93 a night, 1.6 miles from city center, rated 4.4 of 5 stars***** this one is much closer to the university and the market plaza from what I can see on the map – on the same side of the river – right by train station for airport – also good for arrival!

DORMERO Hotel Rotes Ross Halle (this looks good as well – near the Dorint, above)

Both are about 11 miles from Leipzig airport

DENMARK

Math sites:

Rungstead (half hour north of Copenhagen) – where Hein lived for many years including the time of the German occupation during WWII. It is where the elite of Denmark live/lived, and he is a first cousin once removed of Karen Blixen.

Copenhagen – perhaps at math class at the university, Nethe’s old school (University of Copenhagen?)

Personal stops:

Nethe’s home

NORWAY

Math sites:

Kristiansand

Stavanger – perhaps at math class at the university, Nethe’s old school (University of Copenhagen?)

Personal stops:

Kristiansand Cathedral (to play newly refurbished organ – Berit’s sister knows the organist)

MAPS

EDINBURGH

Napier University

Napier University – to see Merchiston Tower of John Napier.

Lauriston Castle – belonged to the Napier family

St. Cuthbert’s Church – there is a memorial to Napier here. There is also a memorial to Alexander Nasmyth who is the artist who taught Mary Somerville.

Old Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh – grave of John Playfair (next to David Hume)

Maxwell Statue – recent and near Old Calton & Maxwell House where James Clerk Maxwell was born is at 14 India Street, Edinburgh about a fifteen minute walk from the railway station which is in the centre of Edinburgh.

Scottish National Gallery – portrait of Robert Burns here done by Alexander Nasmyth who taught Mary Somerville. After learning perspective from him she got a copy of Euclid’s Elements and taught herself from it.

University of Edinburgh. – Maxwell, Tait (studied here), John Playfair (prof) -while there look into things the outreach program may be putting on. Take a self-guilded tour http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/undergraduate/visiting/self-guided

Near Edignburgh:

Burntisland – 31-32 Somerville Square is Mary Somerville’s house - childhood home of Mary Somerville, where she used to collect stones and shells and look out her window at night to see the stars (according to her daughter’s biography of her in the Gutenberg Project. John Playfair also lived here.

Jedburgh – the manse here is where Mary Somerville was born – at the home of an aunt and uncle – also the home of her second husband. She was known in Edinburgh as “The Rose of Jedburgh.”

Personal stops: Arthur’s Seat!!! Edinburgh Castle??

LINCOLN

Math sites:

Lincoln Cathedral – stained glass window and plaque to George Boole

Boole’s House and School – 3 Pottergate, Lincoln

Day-trips from Lincoln:

Woolsthorpe Manor – Sir Isaac Newton’s Home

Hucknall – burial place of the Byrons – Ada Byron Lovelace and Lord Byron

CAMBRIDGE

Math sites:

Newton’s Apple Tree (Trinity?)

Trinity Great Court – There’s a fountain near the center that has been there since before the time of Newton, and there’s a clock tower on the north side of the quad famous for a double ring. It was immortalized by Wordsworth at “Trinity’s loquacious clock.”

Trinity College Chapel – plaques honoring Cayley, Hardy, Ramanujan, Russel, etc. and statue of Isaac Newton

Trinity College – Frank Ramsey, Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, G. H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanugan, John Littlewood, Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Clerk Maxwell,

Wren Library – display of Newton’s copy of Principia with his notes in it.

Nevile’s Court – Littlewood’s rooms were at Staricase D (and Hardy’s were not far from there).

Queen’s College Library – Mary Everest Boole was librarian there after the death of her husband.

Peterhouse – William Thompson (Lord Kelvin), Peter G. Tait, J. C. Maxwell

Center for Mathematical Sciences – former office of Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.

Cambridge Central Library (public library) – where Andrew Wiles came across FLT

(Henry Briggs attended and then was elected fellow of St. John’s College 1577 – first professor at Gresham College London - Savillian Chair at Oxford in 1619)

Personal stops:

Punting on the Cam

Evensong – King’s Chapel – Trinity College Cambridge (home of Nine Lessons and Carols – recommended by Dunham)

The Bell Tower of Great St. Mary’s (climb the spiral staircase – 2 pounds – and see a great view of Cambridge – as well as the bells and the ringers and so on – also recommended by Dunham)

Third Court, St. John’s College – Dunham’s favorite inner sanctum in which you are “chillingly isolated” from the 21st

century and can half believe you are in the year 1680. (Henry Briggs – see above.)

OXFORD

Math sites:

Oxford University Colleges – Balliol College (Charles Hinton b. 1853) – Somerville College (named for Mary Somerville) – Henry Briggs is buried in the chapel of Merton College. (Visit Magdalin too for association with C. S. Lewis.)

Mathematical Institute – building named after Andrew Wiles – Penrose tiling at entrance

Queen’s College Library – first edition Whetstone of Witte by Robert Recorde – permission granted to access it.

Bodleian Library – Mary Somerville’s collection (owned by Somerville Library) – includes correspondence with Lovelace.

Day-trips from Oxford:

Bletchley Park - Alan Turing – possibly add trip to Kavli (Chicheley) hall Royal Society International Center, Buckinghamshire (northeast of Bletcheley) – at least check to see if any events open to the public are taking place there.

Personal stops:

The Kilns and other Lewis associated spots such as The Eagle and Child and Holy Trinity Headington Quarry – maybe crematorium (if Joy’s plaque is here) Possibly go to church where Lewis did if there on a Sunday.

Radcliffe Camera – a science library near the Bodleian – cool building (featured in The Golden Compass)

LONDON

Math sites:

British Museum – Rosetta Stone (and, if on display, Rhind Papyrus)

British Library – Newton’s notes (including experiments on his own eye)

Royal Society – attend an event if it is being held (first come, first served) 6-9 Carlton House Terr. (across from the NE corner of St. James’s Park – somewhat between Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square – near the Mall)

Personal stops:

National Portrait Gallery – Bronte Portraits (photographs can be taken!!)

Westminster Abbey

Hampton Court Palace (perhaps for a haunted tour at night? – or get there by boat on Thames?)

St. James’ Park

Hyde Park

National Gallery????

Kensington Gardens and Palace??

Temple Church???

The Tower (and St. Peter ad Vincula)???

Windsor Palace???

Highgate Cemetery – Rosetti’s???? (who influenced Lewis Carroll)

LOOK INTO LONDON PASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Compare prices, though – might not be a deal – seems like some weirdness, like a “deductible” on transportation (max amount you have to pay before it kicks in? – and it is only one entry per site – and a maximum cost amount covered per day – etc. might be cheaper just to pay for transport and entry – are there other sorts of passes? Does this get me past lines?

PARIS

Math sites:

CNAM – the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, “a store of new and useful inventions” established in 1794 is a museum of technology and innovation and contains multiple copies of Pascal’s Pascaline (60 rue Réaumur - Paris 3rd arrondissement – 1.6km from the Louvre)

Montparnasse Cemetery – Poincaré, Viete, and Galois buried here.

Pere Lachaise Cemetery –Sophie Germain, Fourier, Laplace (?) buried here.

Abbey of Saint-Germain-de-Pres –Descartes buried here. This is near Montparnasse Cemetery, between it and the Siene – Focus on this rather than on day trips to La Fleche and Descartes, which have NO transit service, and which would require both renting a car and spending the night while still holding a room in Paris.

Tuileries Gardens – Mary Fairfax Somerville wrote that when she arrived in Paris she was so weak, that she always remained in bed writing till one o'clock, and then, either went to sit in the Tuileries gardens, or else received visits.

13 rue de Savoie – house where Sophie Germain died (plaque on house). She was born in a house on Rue Saint-Denis.

Gentilly, Glacier Pond, 13th arondissment – (if I can find it!) – site of Galois duel

Bourg-la-Rein – a commune in the suburbs of Paris 5.7 miles south of city center, birthplace of Galois. After a political conflict his father moved the family to Rue Jean-de-Beauvais, Paris.

Cochin Hospital – 14th arrondisement, 27 Rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques. Galois died here.

Universities – Ecole Normal Superior was attended by Galois, but it was at a different location in his time. Bourbaki is centered here. Pierre Fatou also studied here (1898). Ecole Polytechnique – Gaston Julia was a professor there after WWI; Lagrange was first professor of analysis here, and Sophie Germain obtained lecture notes and sent her work to Lagrange; the university opened when she was 18. Cauchy studied and taught here. University of Paris = Sorbonne was attended by Nicole Oresme who was far ahead of his time and in 1350 was beginning to unite algebra and geometry, the fullness of which would have to wait for the 1600s and Descartes and Fermat. Also Poincaré taught here.

Personal stops:

Notre Dame

Eiffel Tower

Louvre

Night boat ride on the Sienne

Musee de Orsay – take picture through the clock towards the Louvre (as in National Geographic) – ugh – pictures forbidden

Chartres? (day trip)

HEIDELBERG

Math sites:

University of Heidelberg archives – Sonya Kovalevsky (also personal as pertaining to 15x great grandpa and his registry in the archives of 1593 – permission granted to access library) – free museum of university history (from Lonely Planet book p. 417 2013)

Heidelberg Castle – One time home of Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia who carried on a celebrated correspondence with Descartes.

GÖTTINGEN

Math sites:

University – Gauss, Dedekind, Dirichlet, Riemann, Hilbert, Mobius, Kovalevsky (dissertation here), Noether (lectured under Hilbert’s name until her habilitation was finally approved), Klein (according to the Dauben book the university library contains correspondence between Klein and Cantor). Here is a link to information about non-local visitors to the library and access to materials: http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/first-time-visitor/plan-your-visit/services-for-non-local-readers/#c2794

Gottingen Collection of Mathematical Models and Instruments: Mathematical Institute – (part of the university?) contains models and instruments from the 18th to the 21st century – entry is free – open Monday through Friday 8am-8pm, and it is part of the public space of the mathematical institute Bunsenstrasse 3-5, 37073 Göttingen http://modelcollection.uni-goettingen.de/

Mathematical Institute – Colloquia are held here. Check this site for dates and details: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html

Royal University Observatory – rooms of Gauss, Dirichlet and Riemann

Albanifriedhof Cemetery – where Gauss is buried – quite a large tombstone surrounded by ivy.

Stadtfriedhof (City Cemetery) – Hilbert’s grave and famous tombstone

Personal stops:

Places related to the Brothers Grimm who were both professors at the University of Gottingen, Jacob also having been head librarian. They lost their professorships after having been part of the Gottingen Seven.

HALLE (SAALE)

Math sites:

Martin Luther University – Halle-Wittenburg -

Nervenklinik – where Cantor died (NB he apparently visited other sanataria as well. Dauben p. 357 #39)

Cantor’s House – Handelstrasse Street

Giebichenstein Cemetery - Cantor’s Grave is on the eastern boundary of the Giebichenstein Cemetery, in the “peace route” (freidenstrasse).

Personal stops:

Marienkirche – Where Handel was baptized and learned to play organ – where Luther gave his last sermon – where Luther’s death mask is. Try to be in town on Sunday to attend services. Open times, service times, organ times, etc. can be found at this site: http://www.visit-luther.de/locations/halle-saale/market-church/

Possible hotel near university (and city center?): Dorint Charlottenhof Halle (Saale)$93 a night with a 4.4 out of 5 excellence rating, 85 reviews