Name: Philip Beeley
University of Oxford
Events this person is speaking at:
Monday 22 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
The Struggle for Algebra: English mathematics around 1660
Date: 22 May 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker
:
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L3
Organiser:
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
Host:
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
Saturday 23 September 2023 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
Day 2: NEWTON GENEVA EDITION - International Symposium 2023
Date: 23 September 2023, 9:00 - 17:30 (Saturday, -2nd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
s:
David Wootton (University of York),
Flavia Marcacci (Pontifical Lateran University),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford),
Sarah Hutton (Honorary Visiting Professor, University of York),
Chris G Lewin (Institute and Faculty of Actuaries),
Scott Mandelbrote (Peterhouse, Cambridge),
Chairs: Philip Beeley, Paolo Bussotti, Jo Ashbourn, Raffaele Pisano, Rob Iliffe
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: Centenary Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is organising:
Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
Full Satisfaction: Early Modern Science and Patronage Revisited
Date: 18 January 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 1st week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker
:
Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Chris Hollings (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
‘A Fresh Look at Leibniz’s mathesis universalis’.
Date: 25 January 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker
:
David Rabouin (CNRS, Paris)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Chris Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
The controversy between Gregory and Huygens on the quadrature of the circle
Date: 1 February 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker
:
Davide Crippa (Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Chris Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
Reforming Mathematical Physics in Renaissance Paris’
Date: 8 February 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker
:
Richard Oosterhoff (University of Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Chris Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
British orientalism and the exactitude of Indian sciences
Date: 15 February 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker
:
Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Chris Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
Success, failure and change in Georgian mathematics’
Date: 22 February 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker
:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Chris Hollings (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
M.G. Agnesi (1718–1799): The first Italian woman to write a treatise of calculus
Date: 1 March 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker
:
Clara Silvia Roero (University of Turin)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Chris Hollings (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Communicating Longitude after Harrison: the Board of Longitude in the late eighteenth century
Date: 8 March 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker
:
Rebekah Higgitt (University of Kent)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Chris Hollings (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
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
Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
Mathematicians on board: introducing lunar distances to life at sea
Date: 15 January 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 1st week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
:
Jim Bennett (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)
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)
Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
“The instrument that excited the keenest interest”: Olaus Henrici’s harmonic analyser
Date: 29 January 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
:
June Barrow-Green (The Open University)
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)
Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
Understanding the differential in Mary Somerville’s Theory of Differences
Date: 5 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
:
Brigitte Stenhouse (The Open University)
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)
Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
On the history of linear algebra: the emergence of a global discipline from local mathematical cultures
Date: 12 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
:
Frédéric Brechenmacher (École polytechnique)
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)
Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
Bartel L. Van der Waerden: algebraic geometry, physics, statistics, and the ancient history of science
Date: 19 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
:
Norbert Schappacher (Université de Strasbourg)
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)
Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
Inventing accuracy in Giovanni Domenico Cassini’s Paris Observatory: an analysis of a sample of letters (1667–1712)
Date: 26 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
:
Dalia Deias (Centre Alexandre Koyré)
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)
Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
The Second Quantification of Physics, c. 1830–1900
Date: 5 March 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
:
Daniel Mitchell (RWTH Aachen University)
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)
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
Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
‘When was cosmology? The curious history of a disciplinary category, c.1600–c.1730’
Date: 21 January 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 1st week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Adam Mosley (Swansea University)
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)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
‘Unity and diversity of practical geometry in sixteenth-century France’
Date: 28 January 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Angela Axworthy (MPIWG Berlin)
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)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
‘To G or not to G: J H Poynting and the gravitational constant in the nineteenth century’
Date: 4 February 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Isobel Falconer (University of St Andrews)
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)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
‘Proposals to move the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1836–1945’
Date: 11 February 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Lee Macdonald (History of Science Museum, 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)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
‘Mastering the Mint: Isaac Newton’s economic and numismatic work’
Date: 18 February 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Alice Marples (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)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
‘How general relativity resonated with differential geometers’
Date: 25 February 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Tilman Sauer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
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)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
‘The “Galilean Sect”: Talented mathematicians, devoted disciples’
Date: 3 March 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Lucia Bucciarelli (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)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
‘The puzzle of Brahmagupta’s quadrilaterals: Hankel’s reading of Colebrooke’
Date: 10 March 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Ivahn Smadja (University of Nantes)
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)
Hosts:
TBA