Our annual meeting which provides an opportunity for research students in any area of the history of mathematics to present their work to a friendly and supportive audience. Our keynote speaker will be Dr Rebekah Higgitt (National Museums Scotland). Scroll down to download the book of abstracts.
Programme
10:00-10:20
Registration
10:20-10:30
Welcome
10:30-11:00
Jason Yip (Middlesex University) Cultural Echoes in Mathematical Discourse: The Unique Style of Ancient Chinese Treatises
11:00-11:30
David Virgili (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Antonio Hugo de Omerique, A Modern Geometer with Classical Roots
11:30-12:00
Refreshment break
12:00-12:30
Saša Popovic (University of Rijeka) Poincaré's Double Mistake and the Reception History of Veronese's Fondamenti di Geometria
12:30-13:00
Paul-Emmanuel Timotei (SPHERE Université Paris Cité) The Reduction of Singularities between Max Noether and Georges-Henri Halphen: What did a more geometric approach mean?
13:00-14:00
Lunch in the Schulman Foyer
14:00-14:30
Aoife Kearins (Independent Scholar) Place, Space, and the Mathematical Imagination: Resituating George Gabriel Stokes in Ireland
14:30-15:00
Kate Hindle (University of St Andrews) Placing D'Arcy Thompson in the History of Mathematics
15:00-15:15
Comfort break
15:15-15:30
Eleanor Brittain (University of Cambridge) [BSHM Undergraduate Essay Prizewinner]. Whipple Museum Object 1754: A Window into the Crossing of Mathematics, Religion and Art in the 17th Century
15:30-16.00
Clément Bonvoisin(SPHERE Université Paris Cité) Across Disciplinary Boundaries and State Borders. How Restricted Mathematical Knowledge Traveled from New Jersey to Moscow through an Engineering Textbook (1953-1956)
16:00-16.30
Frederike Lieven (Paris Sorbonne Université) "Shattering the Traditional Framework of Mathematical Instruction": Teaching "New Math" in a Modern Society
16:30-17:00
Refreshment break
17:00-18:00
Rebekah Higgitt (National Museums Scotland) [Invited Lecture] Metropolitan Science and Mathematical Practice
