AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics
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Thursday January 6, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Maurepas, 3rd Floor, JW Marriott
Organizers:
Sloan E. Despeaux, Western Carolina University despeaux@wcu.edu
Craig G. Fraser, University of Toronto
Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College
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Thursday January 6, 2011, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Maurepas, 3rd Floor, JW Marriott
Organizers:
Sloan E. Despeaux, Western Carolina University despeaux@wcu.edu
Craig G. Fraser, University of Toronto
Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College
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2:15 p.m.
Math Needs Paper and Imagination?: Embodying the Mathematical Knowledge in 17th century Japan.
Tomoko L Kitagawa*, Harvard University
(1067-01-1308)
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2:45 p.m.
Early Chinese Mathematics: its Development from pre-Qin to Wei.
Joseph W. Dauben*, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
(1067-01-1078)
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3:15 p.m.
Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra.
Roger Hart*, University of Texas at Austin
(1067-01-1570)
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3:45 p.m.
Trigonometric Tables in China.
Jiang-Ping Jeff Chen*, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota
(1067-01-132)
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4:15 p.m.
The Mathematical Study of Historical Numerical Tables: Successes, Failures, Issues.
Glen R Van Brummelen*, Quest University
(1067-01-1348)
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4:45 p.m.
Diagrams and spheres: reflections on an early Arabic edition of Menelaus' Spherics.
Nathan Sidoli*, Waseda University
(1067-01-1076)
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5:15 p.m.
Ptolemy's justification for the study of mathematics.
Jacqueline Feke*, Stanford University
(1067-01-1575)
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5:45 p.m.
Seventeenth-century debates on ratio and proportionality revisited.
Antoni Malet*, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
(1067-01-2423)
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Friday January 7, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Maurepas, 3rd Floor, JW Marriott
Organizers:
Sloan E. Despeaux, Western Carolina University despeaux@wcu.edu
Craig G. Fraser, University of Toronto
Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College
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8:00 a.m.
This part of this session is also cosponsored by The International Commission for the History of Mathematics (ICHM).
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8:00 a.m.
The Quadrature of the Circle: 17th century impossibility arguments.
Jesper Lutzen*, University of Copenhagen
(1067-01-1079)
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8:30 a.m.
The quarrel on the invention of the calculus in Jean E . Montucla and Joseph J. L. de Lalande, Histoire des Mathématiques (1758/1799-1802).
Niccolò Guicciardini*, Università di Bergamo, Italy
(1067-01-1017)
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9:00 a.m.
"Splendidly isolated"? Some reflections on the transnationality of 19th-century British mathematics.
Adrian Rice*, Randolph-Macon College
(1067-01-521)
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9:30 a.m.
Salvatore Pincherle and the 1918 Grand Prix des sciences mathématiques: The Third Man.
Daniel S. Alexander*, Drake University
(1067-01-2027)
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10:00 a.m.
Shades of modernism in understandings of applied mathematics: von Neumann's economic system of equations and Rashevsky's model of cellular multiplication.
Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen*, IMFUFA, NSM, Roskilde University
(1067-01-1160)
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10:30 a.m.
The lure of the fundamental probability set of equally likely events.
Byron E. Wall*, York University
(1067-01-1110)
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11:00 a.m.
Mobilizing Mathematics: The American Mathematical Society and World War II.
Karen V. H. Parshall*, University of Virginia
(1067-01-1225)
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11:30 a.m.
George Birkhoff--"the Poincaré of America".
June E. Barrow-Green*, The Open University
(1067-01-1018)
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Friday January 7, 2011, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
Maurepas, 3rd Floor, JW Marriott
Organizers:
Sloan E. Despeaux, Western Carolina University despeaux@wcu.edu
Craig G. Fraser, University of Toronto
Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College
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1:00 p.m.
Mary Cartwright and G.H. Hardy's 1928 Oxford Seminar.
James J. Tattersall*, Providence College
Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University San Bernardino
(1067-01-613)
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1:30 p.m.
George Whaples: A Novice in Emil Artin's Mathematical Circle.
Della D. Fenster*, University of Richmond
Joachim Schwermer, University of Vienna
(1067-01-1547)
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2:00 p.m.
Advertising and Patronage in Laplace's Early Writing.
Menolly Lysne*, IHPST at University of Toronto
(1067-01-1012)
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2:30 p.m.
Circulating Mathematics and Connecting Mathematicians: \em{The American Journal of Mathematics}, 1878-1930.
Deborah Kent*, Hillsdale College
(1067-01-2354)
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3:00 p.m.
Roles of an International Journal: Acta Mathematica and Italian Mathematicians, 1882--1927.
Laura E. Turner*, Aarhus Universitet
(1067-01-2104)
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3:30 p.m.
On the universalization of matrix decomposition: algebraic practices and their circulations (1830-1930).
Frédéric Brechenmacher*, CNRS - Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris &Laboratoire de Mathématiques Lens. Univ. Lille
(1067-01-1433)
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