AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session
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Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
April 6-7, 2013 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1088
Associate secretaries:
Steven H. Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, I
Room S109, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
V. Frederick Rickey, United States Military Academy
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8:00 a.m.
"Epistemic Cultures" and the History of Mathematics.
Hardy Grant*, York University, Toronto
(1088-01-104) -
8:30 a.m.
Mathematics as Mind Training: The History of a Complex of Educational Ideas.
David Lindsay Roberts*, Prince George's Community College
(1088-01-53) -
9:00 a.m.
Mathematical Tables in Nineteenth Century America.
Scott B. Guthery*, Docent Press
(1088-01-16) -
9:30 a.m.
Pre-computer number crunching: computational aids and techniques in Indian mathematics.
Kim Plofker*, Union College
(1088-01-285) -
10:00 a.m.
The Evolution of Mathematics in Ancient China: From the Newly Discovered Shu and Suan shu shu Bamboo Texts to the Nine Chapters on the Art of Mathematics.
Joseph W. Dauben*, Lehman College, City University of New York
(1088-01-69) -
10:30 a.m.
Correcting an Error in Book I of Archimedes' "On Floating Bodies".
Chris Rorres*, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA
(1088-01-38)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, II
Room S109, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
V. Frederick Rickey, United States Military Academy
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3:00 p.m.
The Burial of Euclid: Defacing Geometry in Early-Nineteenth-Century America.
Andrew P Fiss*, Vassar College
(1088-01-250) -
3:30 p.m.
Soldiers and Scholars: Descriptive Geometry on the Blackboard.
Christopher J. Phillips*, Harvard University
(1088-01-55) -
4:00 p.m.
Learning vector calculus circa 1900.
Eisso J Atzema*, University of Maine
(1088-01-182) -
4:30 p.m.
Perspective, Painting, Publishing, and Patronage: Joshua Kirby and Brook Taylor.
Duncan J Melville*, St. Lawrence University
(1088-01-174) -
5:00 p.m.
Sectors at the Smithsonian.
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings*, NMAH/UMUC
(1088-01-26) -
5:30 p.m.
Episodes from American Mathematics in the Age of Jefferson.
Dick Jardine*, Keene State College
(1088-01-135)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday April 7, 2013, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, III
Room S109, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
V. Frederick Rickey, United States Military Academy
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8:30 a.m.
Alternative proofs in mathematical practice.
John W Dawson*, York, Pennsylvania
(1088-01-15) -
9:00 a.m.
The abstract method and the nature of mathematical abstraction in 20th century mathematics.
Jean-Pierre Marquis*, Université de Montréal
(1088-01-56) -
9:30 a.m.
Hypotheticals, Conditionals, and the Implication Relation in Pre-Boolean 19th Century British Logic.
Francine F. Abeles*, Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kean University
(1088-03-111) -
10:00 a.m.
A Pox on Both Your Houses! The Bernoulli -- d'Alembert Smallpox Inoculation Controversy.
Lawrence A. D'Antonio*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
(1088-01-41) -
10:30 a.m.
Émigré Mathematicians: Richard Courant and the Mathematical Institutes at the University of Göttingen in Germany and New York University.
Brittany Shields*, University of Pennsylvania
(1088-01-278)
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8:30 a.m.
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