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1997 Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego, CA, January 8-11, 1997
Meeting #918
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner , AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Donovan H Van Osdol , MAA dv@christa.unh.edu
AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics
Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Organizers: Karen H. Parshall , University of Virginia khp3k@fermi.clas.virginia.edu
James J. Tattersall , Providence College tat@providence.edu
8:00 a.m.
Felix Hausdorff's Contributions to the Theory of Order Types
Jacob M. Plotkin* , Michigan State University
(918-01-31)
8:30 a.m.
The Story of the "Parallelogram Rule" for Finding Tangents
Paul R Wolfson* , West Chester University
(918-01-770)
9:00 a.m.
"Rational diameters" and the discovery of incommensurability
Wilbur R. Knorr* , Stanford University
(918-01-970)
9:30 a.m.
More light on Colin Maclaurin
Judith V. Grabiner* , Pitzer College
(918-01-627)
10:00 a.m.
The Euclid-Euler Theorem.
William Dunham* , Muhlenberg College
(918-01-92)
10:30 a.m.
Mathematics and ideology: The politics of infinesimals
Joseph Dauben* , Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
(918-01-982)
Friday January 10, 1997, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Organizers: Karen H. Parshall , University of Virginia khp3k@fermi.clas.virginia.edu
James J. Tattersall , Providence College tat@providence.edu
1:00 p.m.
From Weierstrass to Aleksandrov: The Early History of Compactness
Gregory H. Moore* , McMaster University
(918-01-898)
1:30 p.m.
Mathematical mysteries of medieval Iran
Jan P Hogendijk* , University of Utrecht
(918-01-532)
2:00 p.m.
Euler's accomplishments in engineering mathematics.
Erwin O. Kreyszig* , Carleton University
(918-01-107)
2:30 p.m.
The Calculus Texts of Johann Bernoulli
V. Frederick Rickey* , Bowling Green State University
(918-01-1327)
3:00 p.m.
Newton, Newton's Method and Power Series
Daniel S Alexander* , Drake University
(918-01-508)
3:30 p.m.
J J Sylvester (1814-1897): poet, pedagogue, personality
John Fauvel* , The Open University
(918-01-371)
4:00 p.m.
The Transmission of Mathematics from Islam to Europe
Victor J. Katz* , Univ of District of Columbia
(918-01-230)
4:30 p.m.
The Mathematics of Statistics: Foundations of Probability in American Textbooks, 1925-1950
Patti W. Hunter* ,
(918-01-478)
5:00 p.m.
Gregory of St.\ Vincent, Antonio de Sarasa, and the area under the hyperbola
Daniel E. Otero* ,
Kim Plofker ,
(918-01-1308)
5:30 p.m.
Dirac: A physicist does linear algebra
Shawnee L McMurran* , Redlands University
(918-01-1299)
Saturday January 11, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Organizers: Karen H. Parshall , University of Virginia khp3k@fermi.clas.virginia.edu
James J. Tattersall , Providence College tat@providence.edu
8:30 a.m.
Sophus Lie, transformation groups, and geodesics
T. Christine Stevens* , Saint Louis University
(918-01-625)
9:00 a.m.
American Women Mathematics PhDs of the Forties and Fifties
Margaret A.M. Murray* , Virginia Tech
(918-01-302)
9:30 a.m.
The ``Error'' in the Indian ``Taylor Series Approximation'' to the Sine.
Kim Plofker* , Brown University
(918-01-835)
10:00 a.m.
The beginnings of computational group theory: The characters of the symmetric group
Charles W. Curtis* , University of Oregon
(918-01-626)
10:30 a.m.
The early history of the London Mathematical Society
Robin J. Wilson* , The Open University, England
Adrian C. Rice , Middlesex University, England
(918-01-909)
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