Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session
Current as of Saturday, January 25, 2014 00:29:02
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Baltimore Convention Center, Hilton Baltimore, and Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, MD
January 15-18, 2014 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1096
Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu
AMS Special Session on the History of Mathematics
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Wednesday January 15, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on the History of Mathematics, I
Room 317, BCC
Organizers:
Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
Della Dumbaugh, University of Richmond ddumbaugh@richmond.edu
Glen van Brummelen, Quest University
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8:00 a.m.
Circles and Spheres: A Comparison of Chinese and Greek Arguments and Proofs.
Joseph W Dauben*, Herbert H. Lehman College, The City University of New York
(1096-01-1274) -
8:30 a.m.
The Linear Algebra of Tevfik Hussein Pasha.
Fernando Q. Gouvêa*, Colby College
(1096-01-1007) -
9:00 a.m.
Rediscovering George Strachan's Euclid.
Gregg De Young*, The American University in Cairo
(1096-01-518) -
9:30 a.m.
The Plain and Gunter's Scales -- Seventeenth Century Additions to the Toolbox of Students and Practitioners of the Mathematicks.
Joel S. Silverberg*, Roger WIlliams University
(1096-01-1103) -
10:00 a.m.
John Wallis' Computations on the Cycloid.
Maria R. Zack*, Point Loma Nazarene University
(1096-01-745) -
10:30 a.m.
The Geometric Calculus of Bernoulli and l'Hôpital.
Robert E. Bradley*, Adelphi University
(1096-01-1299)
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8:00 a.m.
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Wednesday January 15, 2014, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
AMS Special Session on the History of Mathematics, II
Room 317, BCC
Organizers:
Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
Della Dumbaugh, University of Richmond ddumbaugh@richmond.edu
Glen van Brummelen, Quest University
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2:15 p.m.
Classifying Quadrilaterals.
Eisso J. Atzema*, University of Maine
(1096-01-463) -
2:45 p.m.
Playing Checkers with Machines -- from Ajeeb to Chinook.
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell*, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
(1096-01-421) -
3:15 p.m.
The History of Slide Rules, As Told by the Smithsonian Collections.
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings*, NMAH/UMUC
(1096-01-424) -
3:45 p.m.
Julius Plücker's Pure Geometry.
Jemma Lorenat*, Simon Fraser University, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
(1096-01-1304) -
4:15 p.m.
"Merely a speculation of the mind?" William Henry Fox Talbot and mathematics.
June E. Barrow-Green*, The Open University, UK
(1096-01-222) -
4:45 p.m.
On Jacobi's transformation theory of elliptic functions.
Alberto Cogliati*, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
(1096-01-1336) -
5:15 p.m.
Knots in the Nursery: "(Cats) Cradle Song" of James Clerk Maxwell.
Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
(1096-01-395) -
5:45 p.m.
TALK MOVED: Dear Professor Richardson.
James J. Tattersall*, Providence College
Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University
(1096-01-401)
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2:15 p.m.
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Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on the History of Mathematics, III
Room 317, BCC
Organizers:
Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
Della Dumbaugh, University of Richmond ddumbaugh@richmond.edu
Glen van Brummelen, Quest University
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8:00 a.m.
Tarski in Poland: Teaching and Teacher Training.
James T Smith*, San Francisco State University
(1096-01-233) -
8:30 a.m.
Tullio Levi-Civita, Giuseppe Levi and the Fascist Loyalty Oath of 1931.
Judith R. Goodsein*, California Institute of Technology
(1096-01-321) -
9:00 a.m.
On the representation of `abstract' algebras by `concrete' ones, and the rise of spectral methods : Marshall Stone's representation theorems (1936-1938).
Michel Pierre Serfati*, IREM- Universite Paris Diderot
(1096-01-794) -
9:30 a.m.
Mathematics for the World: Publishing Mathematics and the International Book Trade, Macmillan and Co. 1870-1910.
Sylvia M Nickerson*, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
(1096-01-1482) -
10:00 a.m.
TALK CANCELLED: The teaching of mathematics during the Fascism dictatorship through the lens of the educational journals.
Erika Luciano*, University of Turin
(1096-01-1531) -
10:30 a.m.
The Influence of Some Twentieth-Century American Popularizers of Mathematics: E. T. Bell, Edward Kasner, James Newman, and Lillian Lieber.
David Lindsay Roberts*, Prince George's Community College
(1096-01-563) -
11:00 a.m.
The Cajori Two Project.
Walter J. Meyer*, Adelphi University
(1096-01-466) -
11:30 a.m.
Sino-US Mathematical Relations: 1950s--1970s.
Yibao Xu*, City University of New York/BMCC
(1096-01-597)
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8:00 a.m.