Name: Yelda Nasifoglu
University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Euclid's Elements of Geometry in Early Modern Britain
Date: 15 May 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture room L3
Organiser: Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
Host: Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Vitruvius in seventeenth-century Oxford: notes on the manuscript of the first English translation of the De architectura by Christopher Wase (1625–1690)
Date: 22 January 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host: Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)

Friday 10 July 2020 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

'Writing Technology/The Technology of Writing' Workshop: 'Gestures of Nature'
Date: 10 July 2020, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 11th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker s: Viktoria von Hoffmann (Fund for Scientific Research, F.R.S.-FNRS / University of Liège), Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Michael Drolet (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online with Microsoft Teams
Organisers: Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS/MFO), Jenny Oliver (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

"Black strokes upon white paper": changing attitudes towards symbolic algebra from the 19th into the 20th century
Date: 17 January 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 1st week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host: Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Justification of axioms: a neglected topic in the history of mathematics?
Date: 24 January 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Ralph Krömer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host: Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Gauss’s diary, Riemann’s Hypothesis, and Klein’s letters: the central archive for mathematics bequests in Göttingen
Date: 31 January 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Katharina Habermann (Universität Göttingen)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host: Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Insights into the long “genesis” of Dedekind’s lattice theory
Date: 7 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Emmylou Haffner (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host: Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Speaking, reading, writing and printing numbers in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England
Date: 14 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Natasha Glaisyer (University of York)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host: Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Forms of proofs for algebraic equations in medieval China
Date: 21 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Karin Chemla (CNRS)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host: Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Geometry and mathematics for the technical and visual arts at the turn of the sixteenth century
Date: 28 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Matthew Landrus (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host: Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Reading mathematics in the eighteenth century: Montesquieu and young d’Alembert
Date: 7 March 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Jeanne Peiffer (Centre Alexandre Koyré)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host: Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Non-Euclidean geometry and the historian of mathematics
Date: 6 June 2018, 19:00 - 20:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Prof Jeremy Gray (The Open University)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 3 (lower floor)
Organisers: Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

A Mathematician Reads Euclid
Date: 13 June 2018, 19:00 - 20:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Dr Vicky Neale (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 3 (lower floor)
Organisers: Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 20 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

The Body Beautiful: Euclid and Geometrical Solids in Renaissance Europe
Date: 20 June 2018, 19:00 - 20:00 (Wednesday, 9th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Dr Stephen Johnston (University of Oxford )
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 3 (lower floor)
Organisers: Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 27 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

Geometry in Modern and Contemporary Art
Date: 27 June 2018, 19:00 - 20:00 (Wednesday, 10th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Dr Lynn Gamwell (School of Visual Arts, New York)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 3 (lower floor)
Organisers: Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Study day ‘Reading the Classics of Science: historical and anthropological perspectives’
Date: 3 June 2019, 9:00 - 17:00 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: Christine Proust (, CNRS/SPHERE), Agathe Keller (CNRS/SPHERE), Sally Humphreys (University of Michigan), Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHERE), Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford), Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA