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Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego, CA, January 6-9, 2008 (Sunday - Wednesday)
Meeting #1035
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
James J Tattersall, MAA tat@providence.edu
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics
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Tuesday January 8, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Organizers:
Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College, CUNY jdauben@att.net
Patti Hunter, Westmont College
Victor J. Katz, University of District of Columbia
Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia
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Tuesday January 8, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Organizers:
Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College, CUNY jdauben@att.net
Patti Hunter, Westmont College
Victor J. Katz, University of District of Columbia
Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia
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1:00 p.m.
The early history of $F=ma$: approaches to central force motion at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Niccol\'o0 Guicciardini*, Universita' di Bergamo (Italy)
(1035-01-334)
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1:30 p.m.
Richard Dedekind (1831-1916): a path-breaking mathematician.
Israel Kleiner*, York University
(1035-01-374)
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2:00 p.m.
Publishing Research: Specialized Mathematical Journals in Italy (1850-1914).
Laura Martini*, Siena, Italy
(1035-01-347)
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2:30 p.m.
Lord Kelvin--the Irish connection..
Raymond G. Flood*, Kellogg College, Oxford University
(1035-01-391)
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3:00 p.m.
Formulas, concepts, and the ``Jacobi limit'': observations on change in late-nineteenth-century mathematics.
Tom Archibald*, Simon Fraser University
(1035-01-221)
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3:30 p.m.
Jacques Hadamard (1865-1963) and the Calculus of Variations.
Craig G. Fraser*, University of Toronto
(1035-01-592)
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4:00 p.m.
How influential was mechanics in the development of neo-classical economics?
Ivor Grattan-Guinness*, Middlesex University, UK
(1035-03-318)
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4:30 p.m.
``Anti-aircraft guns all day long": computing for the Ministry of Munitions.
June E Barrow-Green*, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
(1035-01-279)
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5:00 p.m.
L.S. Pontrjagin's letters to I.I. Gordon.
Evgeny I Gordon*, Eastern Illinois University
(1035-01-278)
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5:30 p.m.
Mathematicians fleeing from Hitler's Germany.
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze*, University of Agder, Kristiansand (Norway)
(1035-01-332)
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Wednesday January 9, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Organizers:
Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College, CUNY jdauben@att.net
Patti Hunter, Westmont College
Victor J. Katz, University of District of Columbia
Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia
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Wednesday January 9, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
Organizers:
Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College, CUNY jdauben@att.net
Patti Hunter, Westmont College
Victor J. Katz, University of District of Columbia
Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia
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1:00 p.m.
Sophie Germain's manuscripts on Fermat's Last Theorem: A further evaluation of their scope, depth, and original techniques.
Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
David Pengelley*, New Mexico State University
(1035-01-348)
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1:30 p.m.
Hubert Newton and the study of mathematics in the mid-nineteenth century.
Steve Batterson*, Emory University
(1035-01-490)
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2:00 p.m.
The Mathematics of \em{Nature}, 1869-1900.
Sloan Evans Despeaux*, Western Carolina University
(1035-01-302)
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2:30 p.m.
The Algorithmic Side of Riemann's Mathematics.
Harold M. Edwards*, New York University
(1035-01-443)
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3:00 p.m.
Paucissima et Maturissima: Kurt Goedel's Reluctance to Publish in the Philosophy of Mathematics.
Thomas Drucker*, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
(1035-01-505)
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3:30 p.m.
American Mathematicians and School Reform: A Survey of Motives, Methods, and Outcomes from the 1890s to the Present.
David Lindsay Roberts*, Prince George's Community College
(1035-01-473)
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4:00 p.m.
Who was Miss Mullikin?
Thomas L. Bartlow, Villanova University
David E. Zitarelli*, Temple University
(1035-01-571)
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4:30 p.m.
Tracing curve tracing.
John McCleary*, Vassar College
(1035-14-1557)
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5:00 p.m.
Mathematician In Search of War Work: Alice Bache Gould, 1917-1918.
Deborah Kent*, Hillsdale College
(1035-01-1026)
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5:30 p.m.
Priority arguments are not priority disputes.
John W Dawson*, Pennsylvania State University, York (Emeritus)
(1035-01-396)
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