Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 23, 2010 00:39:27

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Francisco, CA, January 13-16, 2010 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1056

• Friday January 15, 2010, 1:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
  Room 2010, 2nd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  Craig Fraser, University of Toronto
  Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College
  Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University despeaux@wcu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Mathematics of the Antikythera Mechanism.
    James Evans*, University of Puget Sound
    (1056-01-929)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The various "Indian rules" in medieval and early modern Western mathematics.
    Kim Plofker*, Union College
    (1056-01-1189)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Descartes, Van Schooten, and algebraic extensions of fields.
    Michel Pierre Serfati*, Université Paris VII/ Denis Diderot
    (1056-01-56)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Curvature and symmetry in Newton's early computations of orbital dynamics.
    Michael Nauenberg*, UCSC
    (1056-01-1560)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Johann Bernoulli's lost lecture on differential calculus and its sequels.
    Ruediger Thiele*, Hall, Germany
    (1056-01-1572)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    From cascades to calculus: episodes in the history of Rolle's theorem.
    June Barrow-Green*, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
    (1056-01-273)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    D company: the rise and fall of differential operator theory in Britain, 1810s-1870s.
    Ivor O. Grattan-Guinness*, Middlesex University, UK
    (1056-01-1877)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Pasch and Klein on intuition and proofs.
    Dirk Schlimm*, McGill University
    (1056-01-1156)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Why was Wantzel Overlooked for a Century? The Changing Importance of an Impossibility Result.
    Jesper Lützen*, University of Copenhagen
    (1056-01-808)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    From idea to mathematical object: Herman Minkowski's introduction of general convex sets.
    Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen*, IMFUFA, Roskilde University
    (1056-01-304)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Building a Nation: The Evolution of a Mathematical Research Community from the Italian States to the Kingdom of Italy.
    Laura Martini*, Siena, Italy
    (1056-01-1331)
• Saturday January 16, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
  Room 2010, 2nd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  Craig Fraser, University of Toronto
  Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College
  Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University despeaux@wcu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    "Ad Calculum Sinuum": Thomas Harriot's Sine Table Interpolation Formulas.
    Janet L Beery*, University of Redlands
    (1056-01-1116)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Newton's Proof of Heron's Formula.
    William Dunham*, Muhlenberg College
    (1056-01-335)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mathematics as imperialism? The role of mathematicians in the political expansion of British mathematical practices.
    Josipa G Petrunic*, University College London
    (1056-01-1249)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A comparison of Edwin Abbott Abbott and Lewis Carroll.
    William F. Lindgren*, Slippery Rock University
    Thomas F. Banchoff, Brown University
    (1056-01-1184)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Early Years of G.H. Hardy's career.
    Brenda Davison*, Simon Fraser University
    (1056-01-482)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Joel E. Hendricks and the Analyst.
    James J Tattersall*, Providence College
    (1056-01-494)
• Saturday January 16, 2010, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
  Room 2010, 2nd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  Craig Fraser, University of Toronto
  Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College
  Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University despeaux@wcu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Euler, Dilog, and Zeta(2).
    Dan Kalman*, American University
    Mark McKinzie, St. John Fisher College
    (1056-01-849)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The Genesis of Generating Functions in Abraham De Moivre's Work.
    David R Bellhouse*, University of Western Ontario
    (1056-01-278)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    What is a Great Book? A Case Study of Legendre's Éléments de Géométrie (1794) and Playfair's Elements of Geometry (1795).
    Amy Ackerberg-Hastings*, University of Maryland University College
    (1056-01-625)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Understanding Early Laplacian Simplifications.
    Menolly Lysne*, Simon Fraser University
    (1056-01-1072)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Maxwell, Poincaré and the Rings of Saturn.
    Tom Archibald*, Simon Fraser University
    (1056-01-254)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The n-body problem in spaces of constant curvature.
    Florin N. Diacu*, University of Victoria
    (1056-01-393)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Italian Mathematics and Mechanics Between the 18th and 19th Centuries.
    Sandro Caparrini*, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Toronto ON, Canada
    (1056-01-1596)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Federigo Enriques' Obsession: A Tale from Italian Algebraic Geometry.
    Donald Babbitt*, UCLA
    Judith Goodstein, Einstein Papers Project, Cal Tech
    (1056-01-306)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Pinning Down Outliers: 19th Century Stabs at Exact Probabilities for Rare Events.
    Byron E. Wall*, York University
    (1056-01-548)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    If Brute Force Does Not Work You Are Not Using Enough: the rise of Numerical Integration in 20th Century Astronomy.
    Allan D. G. Olley*, University of Toronto - IHPST
    (1056-01-1124)