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CBC Radio "IDEAS Program"
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
THE PATH OF KNOWLEDGE, Part Two
Simon Fraser University News
March 22, 2001 Vol . 20, No. 6
By Carol Thorbes
A groundbreaking treatise on cartography that's been Greek to many map buffs for centuries is now making sense, thanks to two scholars' knowledge of the ancient language and ancient mathematics.
Len Berggren, the chair of Simon Fraser University's mathematics department, and Alexander Jones, a University of Toronto classicist, are the authors of the first complete and reliable English translation of Ptolemy's Geography. <Click for full article>
Simon Fraser University News
Feb. 8, 2001 Vol . 20, No. 3
Meredith, Berggren win president's media award
By Marianne Meadahl
Two SFU professors are being honoured for their part in making SFU a better known institution.
Lindsay Meredith, associate dean of business and Len Berggren, chair of mathematics and statistics are the recipients of the annual President's award for service in media and public relations. <Click for full article>
CBC News British Columbia
December 22, 2000
Vancouver - For most folks that Y2K bottle of bubbly is just a distant memory, but while the clock ticks down to the end of year 2000, the great unresolved debate of the millenium continues. There is a group of people who still say most of the world got it wrong last New Year's Eve when they all celebrated the beginning of the new millenium a year early.
SFU mathematics professor Dr. Len Berggren says "A millenium ends after a thousand years have passed. The number of years that have passed so far, as of the last New Year's, was one thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine." Berggren insists the new millenium won't start until New Years Day 2001. While experts may quibble about the exact start date of the new millenium there is no dispute about a rare convergence of winter celebrations. For the first time in 33 years Muslims will observe their most significant festival at the same time Christians celebrate Christmas and Jews light Hanukkah candles. Muslim festivals float through-out the year on an unadjusted lunar calendar. But this year celebrations marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan will begin December 27 and will coincide with the Pagan Winter Solstice, the Hindu Pancha Ganapati, the Afro-American Kwanzaa, as well as Hanukkah and Christmas.
Further Media Coverage
Simon Fraser University News, use 'Berggren' in the Search field.
MEDIA COVERAGE
CBC Radio "IDEAS Program"
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
THE PATH OF KNOWLEDGE, Part One
Commanded by the Qur’an to seek knowledge and examine nature for signs of the Creator, the Islamic world was synonymous with learning and science for five-hundred years. In the twenty-first century, the relationship between science and religion generates much debate among Muslims. Chris Tenove asks if there is there a contradiction between Islam and modern science. Part two continues on Tuesday, November 16.