Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session
Current as of Saturday, January 16, 2016 03:30:11
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington State Convention Center and the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA
January 6-9, 2016 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1116
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu
AMS-MAA Special Session on The History of Mathematics
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Wednesday January 6, 2016, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on The History of Mathematics, I
Tahoma 3, Tahoma Level Three, Washington State Conference Center
Organizers:
Patti Hunter, Westmont College phunter@westmont.edu
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
Deborah Kent, Drake University
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2:15 p.m.
Geometry's Indisputability: From Hero to Hobbes.
Jacqueline Feke*, University of Waterloo
(1116-01-1341) -
2:45 p.m.
The Vis Viva Controversy: a Tercentenary Celebration.
Lawrence A. D'Antonio*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
(1116-01-1100) -
3:15 p.m.
Some Aspects of the History of the Cycloid.
Maria Zack*, Point Loma Nazarene University
(1116-01-831) -
3:45 p.m.
75 Years of Apology: G.H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology.
Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
(1116-01-688) -
4:15 p.m.
Wetzel's problem, Paul Erdős, and the continuum hypothesis: a mathematical mystery.
Stephan Ramon Garcia*, Pomona College
(1116-01-223) -
4:45 p.m.
Programming Before Computers.
Thomas Drucker*, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
(1116-01-1688) -
5:15 p.m.
Visualizing a constructive cubic solution: Omar Khayyam meets Oliver Byrne.
Deborah Kent*, Drake University
(1116-01-1659) -
5:45 p.m.
The Long Birth of Modern Algebra for Undergraduates.
Walter J. Meyer*, Adelphi U.
(1116-01-1919)
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2:15 p.m.
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Thursday January 7, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on the History of Mathematics, II
Tahoma 3, Tahoma Level Three, Washington State Conference Center
Organizers:
Patti Hunter, Westmont College phunter@westmont.edu
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
Deborah Kent, Drake University
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8:00 a.m.
The Construction of Edmond Halley's 1701 Map of Magnetic Declination.
David R Bellhouse*, University of Western Ontario
Lori L Murray, University of Western Ontario
(1116-01-314) -
8:30 a.m.
The inner imagination without sensory media: Jakob Steiner and the figure in geometry.
Jemma Lorenat*, Pitzer College
(1116-01-349) -
9:00 a.m.
Cauchy's Work on Complex Analysis in the 1820s.
Craig Fraser*, University of Toronto
(1116-01-1145) -
9:30 a.m.
Riemann's Model of Nobili's Rings.
Tom Archibald*, Dept. of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
(1116-01-257) -
10:00 a.m.
Quadratic forms, Fermat's Last Theorem and Bernoulli numbers from Cauchy to Kummer (1830-1850).
Jenny Boucard*, Centre François Viète, Université de Nantes
(1116-01-720) -
10:30 a.m.
Determining the Discriminant.
Fernando Q Gouvêa*, Colby College
Jonathan Webster, Butler University
(1116-01-1128) -
11:00 a.m.
Some remarks on Dedekind and Weber's edition of Riemann's Gesammelte Werke.
Emmylou Haffner*, Archives Henri Poincare, Universite de Lorraine
(1116-01-599)
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8:00 a.m.
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Thursday January 7, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on the History of Mathematics, III
Tahoma 3, Tahoma Level Three, Washington State Conference Center
Organizers:
Patti Hunter, Westmont College phunter@westmont.edu
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
Deborah Kent, Drake University
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1:00 p.m.
The Contributions to Mathematics of Piet Hein.
Toke Knudsen*, State University of New York at Oneonta
(1116-01-1637) -
1:30 p.m.
Medieval Mathematics in Three Languages.
Victor J. Katz*, University of the District of Columbia
(1116-01-1326) -
2:00 p.m.
Francesco Maurolico and the problem of filling space with regular polyhedra (1529).
Veronica Gavagna*, Department of Mathematics, University of Salerno (Italy)
(1116-01-1381) -
2:30 p.m.
Rheticus, Maurolico, and the Birth of the Secant Function.
Glen R Van Brummelen*, Quest University
James Byrne, Quest University
(1116-01-781) -
3:00 p.m.
The Mathematics of Thomas Harriot.
Janet L. Beery*, University of Redlands
(1116-01-2431) -
3:30 p.m.
Discussion.
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1:00 p.m.
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Friday January 8, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on the History of Mathematics, IV
Tahoma 3, Tahoma Level Three, Washington State Conference Center
Organizers:
Patti Hunter, Westmont College phunter@westmont.edu
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
Deborah Kent, Drake University
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1:00 p.m.
The Effectiveness of Mathematics as Applied to Science.
Ronald E. Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
(1116-01-303) -
1:30 p.m.
What makes a student the "best"?
Della Dumbaugh*, University of Richmond
(1116-01-1405) -
2:00 p.m.
Recognizing Ricci.
Judith R Goodstein*, Visiting Associate, Einstein Papers Project, Caltech
(1116-01-510) -
2:30 p.m.
American Women Mathematics Doctorates, 1940-1959.
Margaret A.M. Murray*, University of Iowa
(1116-01-526) -
3:00 p.m.
Polish Math House of the Interwar Period: Stefan Banach.
Andrzej Lenard*, San Diego, CA
(1116-01-611) -
3:30 p.m.
"The first man whom you meet on the street": tracing back a well-known quotation by Hilbert.
June Barrow-Green*, The Open University, UK
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, University of Agder, Norway
(1116-01-1491) -
4:00 p.m.
The "patriotic duty not to nationalize science": aspects of the internationalization of mathematics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Laura E Turner*, State University of New York at New Paltz
(1116-01-2038) -
4:30 p.m.
Russian participation in the early International Congresses of Mathematicians.
Christopher Hollings*, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK
(1116-01-264) -
5:00 p.m.
Making a Name in Mid-century Mathematics: Individuals, institutions, and the American reaction to Nicolas Bourbaki.
Michael J. Barany*, Princeton University
(1116-01-228)
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1:00 p.m.