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Seventh - 2009
The Seventh Annual Preskenis Dinner Meeting was held on Monday, April 6,
2009. Dr. Harrison W. Straley, Wheaton College, gave a
presentation
titled "Isaac Newton; A
Dramatic Lecture".
Abstract: Isaac Newton is, perhaps, the greatest intellect and
the most important person of the millennium. He was born while England
convulsed in revolution, as Cromwell defeated the armies of King Charles
I and The Treaty of Westphalia ended Europe’s Thirty Years War. Newton
lived shortly after Fermat, Galileo, Kepler and others had made
significant discoveries in mathematics and science. He built upon their
work. Isaac Newton appears in period costume to discuss his difficult
childhood and turbulent life. This dramatic lecture, accompanied by
slides, is designed to stimulate interest in mathematics and science
through drama and mathematics/science history.
Dinner Meeting
Program
We thank Sodexho, the Framingham State Office of University
Advancement, W.H. Freeman Publishers, and Pearson Prentice
Hall for their support of the 2009 NES/MAA Dinner Meeting in Memory
of Kenneth J. Preskenis.
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