Timetable
Thursday 11 September
10:00 COFFEE
10:30 Snezana Lawrence (Bath Spa)
History of Mathematics lessons for Mathematics Education
11.30 Umberto Bottazzini (Milan)
Mathematics and politics: the Italian case
12:30 LUNCH
2:00 Karine Chemla (Paris)
“Measuring the circle on the sea-mirror”
3:00 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)
4:00 TEA
4:30 Niccolò Guicciardini (Bergamo)
On Newton’s mathematical manuscripts: disciplinary boundaries, writing practices, and styles
5:30 Close
7:00 DINNER at Ye Olde Swan
Friday 12 September
9:30 Erhard Scholz (Wuppertal)
‘Localizing’ the geometry of special relativity: Why Cartan and Weyl posed their new ’problem of space’ differently
10:30 COFFEE
11:00 Moritz Epple (Frankfurt)
Another look at mathematical modernism: Felix Hausdorff on dimension
12:00 Jesper Lützen (Copenhagen)
Geometry, forces and models
1:00 LUNCH
2:00 Encomium by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics
2:15 June Barrow-Green (OU)
GD Birkhoff and Poincaré’s ‘Last Geometric Theorem’
3:15 Jeremy Gray
Klein’s Galois theory: underneath the icosahedron
4:15 TEA
4:45 Close