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