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Programme
10-12 September 2012
10 September
11:30--12:00 Brendan Larvor (opening remarks)
12:00—13:00 Karine Chemla The meaning of parts in mathematical texts: The example of chapters in mathematical writings from ancient China
13:00—14:00 Lunch
14:00—15:00 Ursula Martin Online/off line - mathematical culture in the age of the internet
15.15—15:50 Slava Gerovitch. Creative Discomfort: The Culture of the Gelfand Seminar at Moscow University
15:50—16:25 Jean-Michel Kantor. The Russian tradition of mathematics: Philosophical, religious and cultural roots of the Moscow school of mathematics through the last century.
16:25—16:50 Tea
16:50—17:25 Silvia De Toffoli and Valeria Giardino. Low-dimensional Topology as Visual Mathematics
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11 September
9:30 - 10:30 Christian Greiffenhagen The Materiality of Mathematics: Presenting Mathematics at the Blackboard
10:30—11:00 Coffee
11.00—11:35 Anouk Barberousse, Rossana Tazzioli and Emma Sallent Del Colombo. A story about vectors and tensors - Notation, aesthetic values, and mathematical cultures
11:35—12.10 Rogério Siqueira. Mathematical practices in three engineering schools in the Brazilian First Republic (1889-1930)
12:25—13:00 Stav Kaufman. Two Dualities: an Anthropology of a Mathematical Result
13:00—14:00 Lunch
14:00—15:00 Norbert Schappacher The Human Factor in Mathematics: On various actors’ reactions to different crises 1914 - 1945
15.15—15:50 Albrecht Heeffer. The Abbaco mathematical culture (1300 - 1500)
15:50—16:25 Henrik Kragh Sørensen. 'The End of Proof'? The integration of different mathematical cultures as experimental mathematics comes of age
16:25—16:50 Tea
16:50—17:25 Katalin Gosztonyi. Mathematical Culture and Mathematics Education in Hungary in the XXth Century
12 September
9:30 - 10:30 Alexandre Borovik. Specialist Mathematics Schools
10:30—10.45 Coffee
10.45—11.45: Snezana Lawrence What are we like - the view of mathematics and mathematicians in mathematics education
12.00 - 13:00 Paul Andrews Cultures, curricula and classrooms: The construction of school mathematics
13:00—14:00 Lunch
14:00—15:30 Plenary session and final remarks