Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

Current as of Thursday, April 21, 2022 04:01:57

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Virtual Joint Mathematics Meetings (formerly in Seattle, WA)

• now meeting virtually, PT (hosted by the American Mathematical Society), Seattle, WA
• April 6-9, 2022 (Wednesday - Saturday)
• Meeting #1174

Associate Secretary for the AMS Scientific Program:

Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin-Madison benkart@math.wisc.edu

AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics

• Thursday April 7, 2022, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics
  Organizers:
  Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
  Deborah Kent, University of St. Andrews
  Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
  Daniel E Otero, Xavier University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    (Not) Green's Theorem: The Curious History of a Theorem and its Pedagogical Implications
    Richard Abe Edwards*, Michigan State University
    (1174-01-7320)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The 'Quaestio de certitudine mathemaricarum,' Ibn Rushd and Islamic Mathematics
    Julia Tomasson*, Columbia University
    (1174-01-10311)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Barbaro and Vitruvius: A Mathematician's Translation of an Architectural Text
    Maria R Zack*, Point Loma Nazarene University
    (1174-01-7555)
• Thursday April 7, 2022, 1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
  Organizers:
  Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
  Deborah Kent, University of St. Andrews
  Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
  Daniel E Otero, Xavier University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Choosing to publish a `popular' work: Three books by Mary Somerville advocating for analytical mathematics in 1830s Britain
    Brigitte Stenhouse*, University of Oxford
    (1174-01-7575)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Villainizing the Woman Mathematician in Nineteenth-Century Literature
    Brittany Carlson*, University of California, Riverside
    (1174-01-11045)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Topology in 1930s America: A Tale of Two "Camps"
    Karen H Parshall*, University of Virginia
    (1174-01-7627)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Kentaro Yano (1912-1993) and Tadashi Nagano (1930-2017) : Two Geometers and Their Works
    Shoo Seto*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1174-01-5583)
• Friday April 8, 2022, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
  Organizers:
  Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
  Deborah Kent, University of St. Andrews
  Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
  Daniel E Otero, Xavier University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Need for Including the History of Islamic Mathematics and Science in School Curricula
    Nuh Aydin*, Kenyon College
    (1174-01-9111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    John Horton Conway as Historian
    Thomas L Drucker*, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
    (1174-01-8888)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    HoM Toolbox: Historiography and Methodology for Mathematicians
    Amy Ackerberg-Hastings*, MAA Convergence
    (1174-01-7556)