Our annual meeting which provides an opportunity for research students in any area of the history of mathematics to present their work to a friendly and supportive audience.
Programme
09:45-10.05 Registration
10:05-10.15 Welcome
10:15-10.45 Thomas Berthod (SPHERE, Université Paris Cité) Using Diagrams in Analysis: The Example of René Baire
10:45-11:15 Megan Briers (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Technische Universität Berlin) Controversy over Correspondence: Richarda Airy and the Discovery of Neptune
11:15-11.45 Refreshment Break
11:45-12:15 Steven Abbott Williams (Swansea University) Data in Sports: The Case of Wisden
12:15-12:45 Jason Yip (Middlesex University) & Tom Briggs, Using History as a Pedagogical Tool for Enhancing Affective Development and Academic Performance in Year 7 and 8 Mathematics Classrooms
12:45-13:45 Lunch and Poster Display
13:45-14:15 Petra Stanković (University of Oxford) Russian Mathematicians at the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences Post World War 1
14:15-14:45 Elisa Dalgalarrondo (Sphere/Cité du Genre, Université Paris Cité) The Femmes et mathématiques’ Seminar at the Université d’Orsay: A Window on Women’s Perceptions of their Place in Mathematics in France (1974)
14:45-15:00 David Thorsteinsson (University of St Andrews, Undergraduate Essay Prizewinner) Quantity, Culture, and Cognition: The Role of Agriculture in Shaping Numerical Concepts
15:00-15:30 Refreshment Break
15:30-15:45 Andrew Halyburton (University of St Andrews, Undergraduate Essay Prizewinner) The Diffusion of Hindu-Arabic Numerals Throughout the Late Medieval Europe
15:45-16:15 Elife Çetintas (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) The term “Structure” in Mathematical Discourse from 1889 to 1942: A Bibliometric Study by Using the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik
16:15-16:45 Kate Hindle (University of St Andrews) D’Arcy Thompson and the History of Mathematics in the Early 20th Century
16:45-17:00 Comfort Break
17:00-18:00 Professor Norbert Schappacher (Université de Strasbourg, Invited Lecture) How to Embed Research on the History of 20th-century Mathematics into Historical Epistemology
18:00 Close of Meeting
Please see website for more details: www.bshm.ac.uk/events/research-progress-5
