Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
British Society for the History of Mathematics Research in Progress 2024
Our annual meeting which provides an opportunity for research students in any area of the history of mathematics to present their work to a friendly and supportive audience. Our keynote speaker will be Dr Rebekah Higgitt (National Museums Scotland). Scroll down to download the book of abstracts.
Programme
| 10:00-10:20 | Registration |
| 10:20-10:30 | Welcome |
| 10:30-11:00 | Jason Yip (Middlesex University) Cultural Echoes in Mathematical Discourse: The Unique Style of Ancient Chinese Treatises |
| 11:00-11:30 | David Virgili (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Antonio Hugo de Omerique, A Modern Geometer with Classical Roots |
| 11:30-12:00 | Refreshment break |
| 12:00-12:30 | Saša Popovic (University of Rijeka) Poincaré's Double Mistake and the Reception History of Veronese's Fondamenti di Geometria |
| 12:30-13:00 | Paul-Emmanuel Timotei (SPHERE Université Paris Cité) The Reduction of Singularities between Max Noether and Georges-Henri Halphen: What did a more geometric approach mean? |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch in the Schulman Foyer |
| 14:00-14:30 | Aoife Kearins (Independent Scholar) Place, Space, and the Mathematical Imagination: Resituating George Gabriel Stokes in Ireland |
| 14:30-15:00 | Kate Hindle (University of St Andrews) Placing D'Arcy Thompson in the History of Mathematics |
| 15:00-15:15 | Comfort break |
| 15:15-15:30 | Eleanor Brittain (University of Cambridge) [BSHM Undergraduate Essay Prizewinner]. Whipple Museum Object 1754: A Window into the Crossing of Mathematics, Religion and Art in the 17th Century |
| 15:30-16.00 | Clément Bonvoisin (SPHERE Université Paris Cité) Across Disciplinary Boundaries and State Borders. How Restricted Mathematical Knowledge Traveled from New Jersey to Moscow through an Engineering Textbook (1953-1956) |
| 16:00-16.30 | Frederike Lieven (Paris Sorbonne Université) "Shattering the Traditional Framework of Mathematical Instruction": Teaching "New Math" in a Modern Society |
| 16:30-17:00 | Refreshment break |
| 17:00-18:00 | Rebekah Higgitt (National Museums Scotland) [Invited Lecture] Metropolitan Science and Mathematical Practice |
| 18:00 | Close of meeting |