Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session
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2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM 2023)
- John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston Marriott Hotel, and Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA
- January 4-7, 2023 (Wednesday - Saturday)
- Meeting #1183
Associate Secretary for the AMS Scientific Program:
Steven H. Weintraub, Lehigh University shw2@lehigh.edu
AMS Special Session on The History of Mathematics I
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Friday January 6, 2023, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on The History of Mathematics I
Room 207, Hynes Convention Center
Organizers:
Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College jemma_lorenat@pitzer.edu
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Deborah Kent, University of St. Andrews
Daniel E Otero, Xavier University
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8:00 a.m.
In Praise of Mathematics in Ancient China: Works on Bamboo Strips and their Later Commentaries
Joseph W. Dauben*, City University of New York
(1183-01-20960) -
9:00 a.m.
The Tangled Tale of the Tangent
Glen R. Van Brummelen*, Trinity Western University
(1183-01-16991) -
10:00 a.m.
Mathematical Cosmology and Observational Astronomy 1920-1940
Craig G. Fraser*, University of Toronto
(1183-01-17078) -
11:00 a.m.
Speaking to the Public: Mathematicians on American Radio, the 1920s through 1940s
Albert C. Lewis, Independent historian
Karen H Parshall*, University of Virginia
(1183-01-17246)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday January 6, 2023, 1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
AMS Special Session on The History of Mathematics II
Room 207, Hynes Convention Center
Organizers:
Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College jlorenat@pitzer.edu
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Deborah Kent, University of St. Andrews
Daniel E Otero, Xavier University
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1:30 p.m.
CANCELLED-Josephine Mehlberg (1905 - 1969), Mathematician
Marjorie Senechal*, Smith College
(1183-01-18222) -
2:00 p.m.
Lucien Hibbert: In the Service of Mathematics and Country
Louis M Beaugris*, Kean University
(1183-01-21689) -
2:30 p.m.
Danish Translations of Euclid's Elements
Toke Knudsen*, SUNY Oneonta
(1183-01-19960) -
3:00 p.m.
Translation of "Calculus of Probabilities" by A. A. Markov, first edition, 1900
Alan L Levine*, Franklin and Marshall College
(1183-01-16992) -
3:30 p.m.
Discussion -
4:00 p.m.
Book History, Robert Simson, and John Playfair
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings*, MAA Convergence
(1183-01-17780) -
4:30 p.m.
Early history of compactness and its use in pedagogical design.
Naveen Somasunderam*, SUNY, Plattsburgh
(1183-01-18123) -
5:00 p.m.
Imagining AI: mathematical stories in a museum context
David E Dunning, University of Pennsylvania
Ursula Martin*, University of Edinburgh
Máté Szabó, University of Greenwich
(1183-01-21994)
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1:30 p.m.
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Saturday January 7, 2023, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
AMS Special Session on The History of Mathematics III
Room 207, Hynes Convention Center
Organizers:
Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College jemma_lorenat@pitzer.edu
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Deborah Kent, University of St. Andrews
Daniel E Otero, Xavier University
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8:00 a.m.
Amos Dettonville, Blaise Pascal, and a Cycloidal Challenge
Maria R Zack*, Point Loma Nazarene University
(1183-01-20528) -
8:30 a.m.
Mr. Newton's Approbation: John Flamsteed and Isaac Newton
Lawrence Arthur D'Antonio*, Ramapo College
(1183-01-17236) -
9:00 a.m.
The history of $\frac {\partial x}{\partial y} \frac {\partial y}{\partial z} \frac {\partial z}{\partial x} = -1$ and its many names
Carey Witkov*, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
(1183-01-21557) -
9:30 a.m.
Mathematics and the Real World: The Case of Jacob Amsler and his Planimeter
Eisso Johannes Atzema*, University of Maine
(1183-01-18231) -
10:00 a.m.
CANCELLED-Steiltjes and asymptotic expansions.
Brenda Davison*, SFU
(1183-01-18156) -
10:30 a.m.
A Case of Mistaken Identity: Hensel's Solution to the Problem of Common Inessential Discriminant Divisors
Fernando Q. Gouvêa*, Colby College
Jonathan Webster, Butler University
(1183-01-17847)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday January 7, 2023, 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on The History of Mathematics IV
Room 207, Hynes Convention Center
Organizers:
Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College jemma_lorenat@pitzer.edu
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Deborah Kent, University of St. Andrews
Daniel E Otero, Xavier University
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1:00 p.m.
Everyday Numeracy in the Nineteenth Century: Aspects of Arithmetic in Anglo-American Society
Adrian Rice*, Randolph-Macon College
(1183-01-16981) -
2:00 p.m.
Quaternions at Twilight: The final mathematical work of Mary Somerville
Brigitte Stenhouse*, University of Toronto
(1183-01-16998) -
2:30 p.m.
William Kingdon Clifford's evolutionary approach to mathematics and his posthumous reputation, 1860-1880
Sylvia Nickerson*, University of Toronto
(1183-01-21682) -
3:00 p.m.
Russell on the foundations of mathematics, early 1901
Alejandro R. Garciadiego*, UNAM, Mexico
(1183-01-19543) -
3:30 p.m.
Discussion -
4:00 p.m.
The four fours and four nines problems revisited
Shawn McMurran, California State University San Bernardino
James J. Tattersall*, Providence College
(1183-01-18964) -
4:30 p.m.
Educating Engineers: Developing Emergency Mathematics Curricula during the Second World War
Brit Shields*, University of Pennsylvania
(1183-01-20345) -
5:00 p.m.
Mathematical Equations as Illustrative Tools: The Hidden Social Work of Mathematics in Biology
Abigail Taylor-Roth*, University of Chicago
(1183-01-17953) -
5:30 p.m.
Mathematics in a Children's Classic: Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
Thomas L Drucker*, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
(1183-01-21060)
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1:00 p.m.