Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, January 15, 2009 00:44:13

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington, DC, January 5-8, 2009 (Monday - Thursday)
Meeting #1046

• Wednesday January 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
  Marshall Ballroom South, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College jdauben@att.net
  Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia
  Patti Hunter, Westmont College
  Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mathematics in medieval India: The {\em Bījagaita} of Jñānarāja.
    Toke Lindegaard Knudsen*, SUNY Oneonta
    (1046-01-739)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Trigonometry on the Edge: Interpolation in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy.
    Glen R Van Brummelen*, Quest University
    (1046-01-299)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A medieval Muslim mathematician looks at Indian arithmetic: Al-Biruni's treatise on Sanskrit rules of proportion.
    Kim Plofker*, Union College
    (1046-01-690)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The early years of Gresham College, London.
    Robin Wilson*, The Open University, UK
    (1046-01-609)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Leibniz and the two problems of Méré.
    Maria Sol de Mora*, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
    (1046-01-345)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Prehistory of the Cauchy-Riemann Equations.
    Craig Fraser*, University of Toronto
    (1046-01-367)
• Wednesday January 7, 2009, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
  Marshall Ballroom South, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College jdauben@att.net
  Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia
  Patti Hunter, Westmont College
  Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Mathematics in Newton's {\it Principia Mathematica}.
    George E. Smith*, Philosophy Department, Tufts University; Philosophy Department, Stanford University (Spring '09)
    (1046-01-1437)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Mrs. Bean's Young Ladies: Mathematics Education in Early Modern England.
    Kathryn James*, Beinecke Library, Yale University
    (1046-01-356)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Insights into Cayley's work on the quintic.
    Steven H. Weintraub*, Lehigh University
    (1046-01-33)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    What is at stake in Weierstrass' criticism of Riemann's function theory ?
    Renaud G. Chorlay*, Universite Denis Diderot (Paris 7)
    (1046-01-525)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Computing Devices, Mathematics Education and Mathematics - Sexton's Omnimetre in Its Time.
    Peggy Aldrich Kidwell*, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
    (1046-01-287)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Did Geometry Need Saving From Bourbaki?
    Thomas Drucker*, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
    (1046-01-282)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Polish-American mathematician Joseph Perott.
    Roger L. Cooke*, University of Vermont
    (1046-01-384)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Grading the Greats: What G. Castelnuovo and F. Severi thought of one another in the 1930s.
    Donald G. Babbitt, UCLA
    Judith R Goodstein*, Institute Archives, California Institute of Technology
    (1046-01-378)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Hilbert and the origin myth of modern mathematics.
    Colin McLarty*, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH
    (1046-01-802)
• Thursday January 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
  Marshall Ballroom South, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College jdauben@att.net
  Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia
  Patti Hunter, Westmont College
  Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the History of Algebra.
    Victor J. Katz*, University of the District of Columbia
    (1046-01-447)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Problem of Word Problems.
    Duncan J. Melville*, St. Lawrence University
    (1046-01-639)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Drawing diagrams and making arguments in Greek mathematics.
    Nathan Sidoli*, Osaka Prefecture University
    (1046-01-557)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ptolemy's Indisputable Mathematical Tools.
    Jacqueline Feke*, IHPST, University of Toronto
    (1046-01-719)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    From Proofs to Suanli (Mathematical Principles) in Late Imperial China.
    Jiang-Ping Jeff Chen*, St. Cloud State University
    (1046-01-238)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    George Sarton (1884-1956) and Chinese Mathematics.
    Yibao Xu*, BMCC, CUNY
    (1046-01-242)
• Thursday January 8, 2009, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
  Marshall Ballroom South, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College jdauben@att.net
  Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia
  Patti Hunter, Westmont College
  Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Saving the phenomena: limits from Maclaurin to Cauchy.
    Robert E. Bradley*, Adelphi University
    (1046-01-720)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Euler, Lagrange and Cauchy: Three perspectives on the "Euler Identity".
    C Edward Sandifer*, Western Connecticut State University
    (1046-01-769)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Andrew Ellicott: mathematician, surveyor, teacher.
    Florence D Fasanelli*, AAAS
    (1046-01-413)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Edwin Abbott and the mathematics of Flatland.
    William Lindgren*, Slippery Rock University
    Joan Richards, Brown University
    (1046-01-696)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Elliptic Functions via Invariant Theory: Cayley's partial anticipation of the Weierstrass $\wp $-function.
    Adrian Rice*, Randolph-Macon College
    (1046-01-369)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Teacher and Mentor: Gösta Mittag-Leffler's influence on the Swedish mathematical community through his role as professor at Stockholms högskola.
    Laura E. Turner*, University of Aarhus
    (1046-01-688)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    What Led Ronald Fisher to the Concept of Randomization? A Re-Examination.
    Nancy S. Hall*, University of Delaware
    (1046-01-538)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Integral Equations: a "Revolution" in Mathematics in the early 20th Century?
    William T Archibald*, Simon Fraser University
    Rossana Tazzioli, Universit'{e} de Lille I, Lille, France
    (1046-01-506)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Center Problem in Complex Dynamics, 1913-1942.
    Daniel S. Alexander*, Drake University, Department of Mathematics & Computer Sciences
    (1046-01-1126)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The real inventor of the computer.
    Sanford L Segal*, University of Rochester
    (1046-01-562)