ICHM: Celebration of honours recently awarded to historians of mathematics
The International Commission on the History of Mathematics are holding a meeting to celebrate honours recently awarded to historians of mathematics.
This event is followed by the annual Research in Progress meeting of the BSHM on 7 March, also in Oxford: find out more.
14:00-14:45 Ursula Martin (University of Oxford) - DBE 2025
Hidden figures: the women who made Oxford computing
14:45-15:30 Henning Heller (University of Bonn) - ICHM Montucla Prize 2025
Mellen Woodman Haskell (1863-1948): An American mathematics student of the Wanderlust generation
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:45 David E. Rowe (University of Mainz) - ICHM Kenneth O. May Medal and Prize 2025
What Riemann learned from Gauss: When and How
16:45-17:30 Jan Hogendijk (University of Utrecht) - ICHM Kenneth O. May Medal and Prize 2025
Applied mathematics in Ottoman Palestine: The treatise by Taqi al-Din on sundials
17:30-18:30 Drinks reception