Our annual meeting provides an opportunity for research students, in any area of the history of mathematics, to present their work to a friendly and supportive audience. The meeting will be held in person only, in English.
This year our keynote speaker will be Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (University of Copenhagen).
Book online via Eventbrite: BSHM Research in Progress 2026 Tickets. Please note that bookings will close a week before the event, so do book in good time. If you would prefer to pay the registration fee by cash or cheque on the day of the meeting, please contact the meetings co-ordinator at brigitte.stenhouse@bshm.ac.uk.
Programme
10:30 Arrival
10:50 BSHM Welcome
11:00 Rui Yuan (Sphere/Université Paris Cité), From Philology to Mathematics: What are the relationships between the marks and annotations borne by the earliest extant manuscript of the Chinese mathematical treatise Sea Mirror of the Circle Measurements and the late 18th-century editions of the work?
11:30 Emma Baxter (University of Oxford), Anxiety and Crisis in Late Imperial Russian and Early Soviet Mathematics, 1900-35
12:00 Petra Stanković (University of Oxford), The Kazan Context of the Petrov Classification
12:30 Elinor Flavell (Open University), A Whistle-Stop Tour of the First 159 Days of my PhD
12:45 Stephen Dorman (Open University), Undergraduate Essay Prizewinner, Mollie Orshansky and the Moral Arithmetic of Poverty
13:00 Lunch (provided)
14:00 Megan Briers (MPIWG/TU Berlin), Gender, Observers’ Bodies and Nineteenth-Century Measurements of the Distance to the Sun
14:30 Thomas Glasman (University of Oxford), Private Correspondence and Public Writing on the Paradoxes of Set Theory
15:00 Ties van Gemert (Tilburg University), Gerrit Mannoury (1867-1956) on the Politics of Mathematical Logic
15:30 Shaivi Darsi (Queen Mary University of London), Undergraduate Essay Runner Up, From Dice to Derivatives: How 17th-century Gambling Shaped Modern Financial Mathematics
15:45 Refreshment Break
16:15 Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (University of Copenhagen), John Fauvel Invited Lecture, A Problem-Oriented Multiple Perspective Approach to History of Mathematics Illustrated by Examples from the 20th century: How can it fill “lacunas”?
17:15 Close of Meeting
Research in Progress Book of Abstracts 2026.
If you would like to take advantage of the BSHM Member pricing, membership starts from just £18 a year and can be purchased via the BSHM website.
The day before this meeting the ICHM will be holding a satellite meeting, also in Oxford, to celebrate honours recently awarded to historians of mathematics. Find out more.
