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Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Antonio, TX, January 12-15, 2006
Meeting #1014
Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu
James J Tattersall, MAA tat@providence.edu
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics
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Saturday January 14, 2006, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Organizers:
Joseph W. Dauben, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY) jdauben@att.net
Patti Hunter, Westmont College phunter@westmont.edu
Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia khp3k@virginia.edu
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1:00 p.m.
Reconstructing Early Developments of Determinants in China: Evidence from the ``Nine Chapters of Mathematical Methods" (Jiu zhang suan shu) and Later Commentaries.
Roger Hart*, University of Texas at Austin
(1014-01-497)
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1:30 p.m.
Western Concepts of Infinity Introduced to China in the Seventeenth Century.
Yibao Xu*, Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York
(1014-01-916)
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2:00 p.m.
Giacomo Rho (1592-1638) and his mathematical work in Beijing.
Jose A. Cervera*, ITESM, Campus Monterrey, Dep. Estudios Humanisticos
(1014-01-693)
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2:30 p.m.
Descartes, the Princess Elisabeth, and the Problem of Apollonius: The dangers of Underestimating a Geometrical Problem.
Henk J.M. Bos*, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
(1014-51-456)
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3:00 p.m.
A War of Words in Pictures: the Dispute between Montmort and De Moivre over the Probability Calculus.
David R Bellhouse*, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario
(1014-01-465)
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3:30 p.m.
On a Result of Lagrange in the Theory of Infinite Series.
Craig G. Fraser*, University of Toronto
(1014-01-637)
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4:00 p.m.
Early Theories of Vectors.
Sandro Caparrini*, Dibner Institute for the History of Science, Cambridge MS
(1014-01-503)
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4:30 p.m.
Cayley's counting problems.
Anthony J. Crilly*, Middlesex University
(1014-01-504)
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5:00 p.m.
Mathematical crystallography after Hilbert's 18th problem.
Jeanine Daems*, Leiden University
(1014-01-733)
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5:30 p.m.
Euler's Amicable Numbers.
William Dunham*, Muhlenberg College
(1014-01-510)
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Sunday January 15, 2006, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Organizers:
Joseph W. Dauben, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY) jdauben@att.net
Patti Hunter, Westmont College
Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia
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1:00 p.m.
Did Euclid Need the Euclidean Algorithm to Prove Unique Factorization?
David J. Pengelley*, New Mexico State University
Fred Richman, Florida Atlantic University
(1014-01-730)
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1:30 p.m.
Lagrange, Sufficient Reason, and Space.
Judith Grabiner*, Pitzer College, Claremont, California
(1014-01-387)
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2:00 p.m.
Statesmen of British Mathematics: Scientific Society Involvement of Mathematicians in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Sloan Evans Despeaux*, Western Carolina University
(1014-01-707)
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2:30 p.m.
Mathematics as Popular Science: Benjamin Peirce in 19th-Century Boston.
Deborah Kent*, Simon Fraser University
(1014-01-682)
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3:00 p.m.
Cardinality and Confusion in the Peircean Continuum.
Matthew E Moore*, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
(1014-01-542)
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3:30 p.m.
Proof in Islam, India, and China.
Victor J Katz*, University of the District of Columbia
(1014-01-717)
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4:00 p.m.
The Volterra Chronicles.
Judith R Goodstein*, California Institute of Technology
(1014-01-635)
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4:30 p.m.
Objects and Mathematics Teaching at American Colleges and Universities.
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell*, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, University of Maryland University College
David Lindsay Roberts, Laurel, Maryland
(1014-01-616)
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5:00 p.m.
Flying the Platonic Flag: Philosophical and Nationalistic Ideology in Deutsche Mathematik.
Thomas Drucker*, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
(1014-01-857)
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5:30 p.m.
Mathematics and the Social Sciences: The Origins of Finite Mathematics.
Walter Meyer*, Adelphi University
(1014-01-65)
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