Valediction to Jeremy Gray

A meeting to mark Jeremy Gray’s retirement from the Open University and to celebrate his many achievements

Dates

Thursday 11 September – Friday 12 September 2014

Location

Mercure Parkside House, Newport Road, Woughton on the Green, Milton Keynes MK6 3LR

Speakers

Snezana Lawrence (Bath Spa) ~ History of Mathematics lessons for Mathematics Education

Umberto Bottazzini (Milan) ~ Mathematics and politics: the Italian case

Karine Chemla (Paris) ~ "Measuring the circle on the sea-mirror"

Leo Corry (Tel Aviv) ~ The interaction between arithmetic and geometry in the Euclidean tradition: a longue durée issue in the historiography of mathematics (if there ever was one)

Niccolò Guicciardini (Bergamo) ~ On Newton’s mathematical manuscripts: disciplinary boundaries, writing practices, and styles

Erhard Scholz (Wuppertal) ~ ‘Localizing’ the geometry of special relativity: Why Cartan and Weyl posed their new ’problem of space’ differently

Moritz Epple (Frankfurt) ~ Another look at mathematical modernism: Felix Hausdorff on dimension

Jesper Lützen (Copenhagen) ~ Geometry, forces and models

June Barrow-Green (OU) ~ GD Birkhoff and Poincaré’s ‘Last Geometric Theorem’

Jeremy Gray ~ Klein’s Galois theory: underneath the icosahedron

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