• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Philip Beeley (University of Oxford) , Chris Hollings (University of Oxford) , Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Tuesdays at 17:00 Online
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Full Satisfaction: Early Modern Science and Patronage Revisited
  Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘A Fresh Look at Leibniz’s mathesis universalis’.
  David Rabouin (CNRS, Paris)

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The controversy between Gregory and Huygens on the quadrature of the circle
  Davide Crippa (Academy of Sciences, Prague)

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Reforming Mathematical Physics in Renaissance Paris’
  Richard Oosterhoff (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - British orientalism and the exactitude of Indian sciences
  Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Success, failure and change in Georgian mathematics’
  Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - M.G. Agnesi (1718–1799): The first Italian woman to write a treatise of calculus
  Clara Silvia Roero (University of Turin)

Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Communicating Longitude after Harrison: the Board of Longitude in the late eighteenth century
  Rebekah Higgitt (University of Kent)

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

• 17:00 - ‘“Black strokes upon white paper”: changing attitudes towards symbolic algebra from the nineteenth into the twentieth century’
  Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)

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

• 17:00 - ‘Justification of axioms: a neglected topic in the history of mathematics?’
  Ralf Krömer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

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

• 17:00 - ‘Gauss’s diary, Riemann’s Hypothesis, and Klein’s letters: the central archive for mathematics bequests in Göttingen’
  Katharina Habermann (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

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

• 17:00 - 'Insights into the long “genesis” of Dedekind’s lattice theory’
  Emmylou Haffner (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

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

• 17:00 - ‘Speaking, reading, writing and printing numbers in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England’
  Natasha Glaisyer (University of York)

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

• 17:00 - ‘Forms of proofs for algebraic equations in medieval China’
  Karine Chemla (Université Paris Diderot)

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

• 17:00 - ‘Geometry and mathematics for the technical and visual arts at the turn of the sixteenth century’
  Matthew Landrus (University of Oxford)

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

• 17:00 - ‘Reading mathematics in the eighteenth century: Montesquieu and young d’Alembert’
  Jeanne Peiffer (CNRS)

Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Mathematicians on board: introducing lunar distances to life at sea’
  Jim Bennett (University of Oxford)

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

• 17:00 - ‘Vitruvius in seventeenth-century Oxford: notes on the manuscript of the first English translation of the De architectura by Christopher Wase (1625–1690)’
  Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘“The instrument that excited the keenest interest”: Olaus Henrici’s harmonic analyser’
  June Barrow-Green (Open University)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Understanding the differential in Mary Somerville’s Theory of Differences’
  Brigitte Stenhouse (Open University)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘On the history of linear algebra: the emergence of a global discipline from local mathematical cultures’
  Frédéric Brechenmacher (École polytechnique, Paris)

Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Bartel L. Van der Waerden: algebraic geometry, physics, statistics, and the ancient history of science’
  Norbert Schappacher (Université de Strasbourg)

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Inventing accuracy in Giovanni Domenico Cassini’s Paris Observatory: an analysis of a sample of letters (1667–1712)’
  Dalia Deias (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The Second Quantification of physics’
  Daniel Mitchell (RWTH Aachen University)

Tuesday 27 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Under the Protection of Alien Wings. Russian Emigrant Mathematicians in Interwar France: A General Picture and Two Case Studies of Ervand Kogbetliantz and Vladimir Kosticyn
  Laurent Mazliak (Sorbonne)

Tuesday 4 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Systematizing intuition: methods for integrating the exact and inexact sciences at RAND, MIT and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
  Sarah Dry (Independent)

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A Hungarian Logician in China: At the Intersection of Soviet, Chinese and Hungarian Computing History
  Máté Szabo (Oxford)

Tuesday 18 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The “De sex inconvenientibus”, an example of a fourteenth-century treatise on natural philosophy
  Sabine Rommevaux (CNRS)

Tuesday 25 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Making a “Young Man’s Game”: Youth, gender, play, and the real and imagined personae of modern global mathematics
  Michael Barany (Edinburgh)

Tuesday 1 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - From one Academy to the other: Mersenne, Roberval, and a few others
  Sébastien Maronne (Toulouse)

Tuesday 8 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Erudition and Empiricism in Algebraic Practice at the End of the Sixteenth Century
  Abram Kaplan (Harvard)

Tuesday 15 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “The triumphant vindication of the American observations”? The Spanish eclipse expedition of 1870
  Deborah Kent (St Andrews)