• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Variable
• Web Address: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events/list/3153
• Organising department: Mathematical Institute

Friday 16 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Cooperating around a theory: the example of lattice theory in the 1930s
  Simon Decaens (Université Paris Diderot)

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Spinning, stalling, and falling apart
  Tony Royle (The Open University)

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Was James Clerk Maxwell’s mathematics as good as his poetry?
  Mark McCartney (University of Ulster)

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

• 16:00 - Applied mathematics in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars
  Jan Kotůlek (Technical University of Ostrava)

Friday 27 July 2018 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Euler's research on curvature of spatial curves
  Xi Liu (Xi'an/Oxford)
• 14:30 - About the nature of π: Proofs and conjectures in Lambert's Mémoire (1768)
  Eduardo Dorrego López (Seville)
• 15:00 - Meeting under the integral sign? The 1936 Oslo International Congress of Mathematicians
  Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - William Burnside and the Mystery Letter
  Howard Emmens
• 16:30 - How did Chinese deal with a scientific problem: Building the solar eclipse theory in ancient China (the 7th-10th century AD)
  Anjing Qu (Xi'an)

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Formulating a theory - mathematics in Thomson and Rutherford's collaboration on x-ray ionisation
  Isobel Falconer (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 4 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, 1944-1963
  Volker Remmert (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A Beautiful Game from the War: Piet Hein, John Nash, Martin Gardner and Hex
  Ryan Hayward (University of Alberta)

Tuesday 12 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Jacob Bernoulli’s role in the history of elasticity: From a discussion with a craftsman to the discovery of the elasticity rules
  Sepideh Alassi (University of Basel)

Tuesday 25 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - On the circulation structures in traditional Chinese algorithms
  GUO Shirong (Institute for the History of Science and Technology，Inner Mongolia Normal University)

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Re-Engineering History: A Playful Demonstration
  Tom Ritchie (University of Kent)

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Crossing the Pond: European Mathematicians in 1920s America
  Karen Hunger Parshall (University of Virginia)

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Babbage's mechanical notation
  Adrian Johnstone (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Tuesday 28 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Mathematics and Justice in ancient Egypt
  A joint History of Mathematics/Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Annette Imhausen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Questions of collaboration and credit in D’Arcy Thompson’s 'On Growth and Form'
  Deborah Kent (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 31 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 'My avid fellow feeling' and 'Fleas': Playing with words on the computer
  Troy Astarte (Swansea University)

Thursday 9 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - “So Fair a Subterraneous City”: Mining, Maps, and the Politics of Geometry in the Seventeenth Century
  Thomas Morel (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

Monday 24 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Going All Round the Houses: Mathematics, Horoscopes and History before 1600
  Stephen Johnston (History of Science Museum)

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - On Green’s theorem: a visual history through textbooks and other printed matter
  Rogério Monteiro de Siqueira (Universidade de São Paolo)

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - On the uses and abuses of the history of mathematics
  Nicolas Michel (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)

Wednesday 31 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Mathematics and its history, through literature
  Please note change of time
  Sarah Hart (Birkbeck, University of London)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Mathematising certainty in the 18th century. Jacob Bernoulli’s and Thomas Bayes’ redefinition of “absolute” and “moral” certainty through probability calculus
  Dinh-Vinh Columban (Université Paris Nanterre)

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Conceptualization of Mathematics in Pharaonic Egypt
  A joint History of Mathematics/Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Seminar
  Annette Imhausen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - More Pope-like than the Pope: modern mathematics movement in Czechoslovakia
  Helena Durnová (Masaryk University)

Monday 4 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - History and highlights of the Kerala school of mathematics
  Aditya Kolachana (IIT Madras)

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Truth Be Told: How To Interpret Past Mathematicians
  A. C. Paseau (University of Oxford), Fabian Pregel (University of Oxford)