Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session
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2024 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM 2024)
- Moscone North/South, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
- January 3-6, 2024 (Wednesday - Saturday)
- Meeting #1192
Associate Secretary for the AMS Scientific Program:
Michelle Ann Manes, American Institute of Mathematics mmanes@secretariat.ams.org
AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics
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Friday January 5, 2024, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Papers presented in these sessions will be on the history of mathematics from ancient to modern times, based on research carried out in the last three years. Topics include internal mathematical developments, external analyses of such developments, biographical accounts, descriptions of developments within specific periods, special issues related to mathematics, and accounts of events that affected the evolution of mathematics.
Room 103, The Moscone Center
Organizers:
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Sloan Evans Despeaux, Western Carolina University
Deborah Kent, University of St. Andrews dk89@st-andrews.ac.uk
Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
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8:00 a.m.
Cauchy's Persuasive Appeal
Maritza M. Branker*, Niagara University
(1192-01-27245) -
8:30 a.m.
A discourse view of mathematical communities: Examples from 19th-century analysis
Janet Heine Barnett*, Colorado State University Pueblo
(1192-01-29711) -
9:00 a.m.
Charles Hermite, Analysis, and Mathematics in the Lycée
William Thomas Archibald*, Simon Fraser University
(1192-01-29796) -
9:30 a.m.
Stieltjes and Asymptotic Expansions
Brenda Davison*, SFU
(1192-01-28177) -
10:00 a.m.
Kites and Letters: How Peter Guthrie Tait and William Rowan Hamilton Remade Quaternions
Kevin Lambert*, California State University Fullerton
(1192-01-30025) -
11:00 a.m.
CANCELLED Euclid's Victorian Rivals and the `dangerous' Direction-Theory
Rosie Lev Halutz*, Tel-Aviv University
(1192-01-28295) -
11:30 a.m.
Physical Mathematics and the Dirichlet Principle
Steven M. Deckelman*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
(1192-01-26813)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday January 5, 2024, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Papers presented in these sessions will be on the history of mathematics from ancient to modern times, based on research carried out in the last three years. Topics include internal mathematical developments, external analyses of such developments, biographical accounts, descriptions of developments within specific periods, special issues related to mathematics, and accounts of events that affected the evolution of mathematics.
Room 103, The Moscone Center
Organizers:
Deborah Kent, University of St. Andrews dk89@st-andrews.ac.uk
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Sloan Evans Despeaux, Western Carolina University
Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
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1:00 p.m.
It all began with the pentagon: polyhedra and irrational lines in Euclid's Elements.
Ken Saito*, Osaka Prefecture University (emeritus)
(1192-01-28490) -
2:00 p.m.
A New Look from the Archives: A Revaluation of Archimedes' Work in the United Kingdom during the 17-18th Centuries
.. Hunter*, University of Chicago
(1192-01-30600) -
2:30 p.m.
17th century mathematics in Kircher's Arithmologia and Schott's Cursus Mathematicus
Jacqueline M. Dewar, Loyola Marymount University
Sarah J. Greenwald*, Appalachian State University
(1192-01-27403) -
3:00 p.m.
English Periodicals and Marketing Mathematics in Seventeenth-Century Europe
James Phillip Ascher*, University of Edinburgh
(1192-01-32771) -
3:30 p.m.
Death by Numbers: Analyzing Mortality Statistics in 17th Century London
Jessica Otis*, George Mason University
(1192-01-32418) -
4:00 p.m.
Mathematical Royalty: The Curious Case of Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia
Dana N Mackenzie*, Freelance Writer
(1192-01-25948) -
4:30 p.m.
Richard Towneley, astronomer of Towneley Hall
Lawrence Arthur D'Antonio*, Ramapo College
(1192-01-26379)
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1:00 p.m.
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Saturday January 6, 2024, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Papers presented in these sessions will be on the history of mathematics from ancient to modern times, based on research carried out in the last three years. Topics include internal mathematical developments, external analyses of such developments, biographical accounts, descriptions of developments within specific periods, special issues related to mathematics, and accounts of events that affected the evolution of mathematics.
Room 103, The Moscone Center
Organizers:
Deborah Kent, University of St. Andrews dk89@st-andrews.ac.uk
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Sloan Evans Despeaux, Western Carolina University
Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
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8:00 a.m.
The first journal of the Polish Mathematical Society (1921-1952)
Margaret Stawiska-Friedland*, AMS/Mathematical Reviews
(1192-01-29377) -
8:30 a.m.
"The science of Mathematics is not crystallized into text-books" : The Bryn Mawr Mathematical Journal Club Notebooks (1896 --- 1924)
Jemma Lorenat*, Pitzer College
(1192-01-28527) -
9:00 a.m.
"Compute, observe, and mark my word": Collaborative Mathematics and Joint Authorship through Harvard's Observatory Pinafore, 1879
Andrew Fiss*, Michigan Technological University
(1192-01-31050) -
9:30 a.m.
Gendered Calculations: Human Computers at Mount Wilson Observatory in the Early Twentieth Century
Eun-Joo Ahn*, Yale University
(1192-01-32221) -
10:00 a.m.
"Responsibility for this falls only on us:" Chinese observations of the 1941 total solar eclipse
Deborah Kent*, University of St. Andrews
Yansong Li, University of St Andrews
(1192-01-31487) -
10:30 a.m.
R.A. Fisher, Eugenics, and the Foundations of Probability
Aubrey Clayton*, Harvard University, Division of Continuing Education
(1192-01-31264) -
11:00 a.m.
Mathematicians Confront Political Tests: The American Mathematical Society and the Red Scare in 1954
Albert C. Lewis, Independent historian
Karen H Parshall*, University of Virginia
(1192-01-28324)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday January 6, 2024, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
Papers presented in these sessions will be on the history of mathematics from ancient to modern times, based on research carried out in the last three years. Topics include internal mathematical developments, external analyses of such developments, biographical accounts, descriptions of developments within specific periods, special issues related to mathematics, and accounts of events that affected the evolution of mathematics.
Room 103, The Moscone Center
Organizers:
Deborah Kent, University of St. Andrews dk89@st-andrews.ac.uk
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
Sloan Evans Despeaux, Western Carolina University
Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
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1:00 p.m.
Mādhava's sophisiticated spherical trigonometry in verse
Aditya Kolachana*, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
(1192-01-25743) -
1:30 p.m.
How Poetry informs the History of Mathematics
Suzanne Sumner*, University of Mary Washington
(1192-01-29951) -
2:00 p.m.
Shatranj: Chess and Mathematics in the Islamicate World
Julia Tomasson*, Columbia University
(1192-01-32420) -
2:30 p.m.
Sawaguchi Kazuyuki (沢口一之) and the Kokon Sanpōki (古今算法記)
Alicia Zelenitsky Hill*, Simon Fraser Univesity
(1192-01-30199) -
3:00 p.m.
CANCELLED Mathematics and Society Reunited: The Social Aspects of Brouwer's Intuitionism
Kati Kish Bar-On*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1192-03-29115) -
3:30 p.m.
CANCELLED Bourbaki's mathematical structures and their legacy
Charlotte Aten*, University of Denver
(1192-01-33185) -
4:00 p.m.
A Gear in a Turing Machine
Daniel J O'Leary*, Independent
(1192-01-26754) -
4:30 p.m.
The 15 Puzzle and Ambrose Bierce
Ethan J Berkove*, Lafayette College
(1192-01-29821)
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1:00 p.m.