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Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 10-13, 2001
Meeting #962
Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
James J Tattersall, MAA tat@providence.edu
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics
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Friday January 12, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Organizers:
Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia khp3k@virginia.edu
David E. Zitarelli, Temple University zit@unix.temple.edu
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8:30 a.m.
The history of almost-periodic functions.
Roger L Cooke*, University of Vermont
(962-01-50)
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9:00 a.m.
An Historical Lecture about Ramanujan Arranged in 3 Acts, an Interact, and an Exodion: Act 1: S. Janaki Ammal (Mrs. Ramanujan), Act 2: Books Studied by Ramanujan, Act 3: A Family History.
Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(962-11-45)
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9:30 a.m.
Figures on the threshold - the kolam tradition of Tamil Nadu (southern India).
Marcia Ascher*, Ithaca College
(962-01-398)
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10:00 a.m.
Getting an Angle on the Stars in Ancient Babylon.
John A Fossa*, UFRN - Natal, Brazil
(962-01-284)
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10:30 a.m.
Concrete geometry in the medieval Islamic world: an instrument for finding the distance and direction of Mecca.
Jan P Hogendijk*, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
(962-01-22)
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Friday January 12, 2001, 1:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Organizers:
Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia khp3k@virginia.edu
David E. Zitarelli, Temple University zit@unix.temple.edu
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Saturday January 13, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Organizers:
Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia khp3k@virginia.edu
David E. Zitarelli, Temple University zit@unix.temple.edu
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Saturday January 13, 2001, 1:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
Organizers:
Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia khp3k@virginia.edu
David E. Zitarelli, Temple University zit@unix.temple.edu
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1:00 p.m.
Large Numbers and the Infinite in Ancient Chinese Mathematics: Puzzles of Xu Yue's {\rm Shu Shu Ji Yi} (Memoir on Some Traditions of the Mathematical Art).
Joseph W. Dauben*, Herbert H. Lehman College and Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
(962-01-788)
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1:30 p.m.
Mathematics in the American Journal of Science and Arts, 1819-1840.
Todd Timmons*, Westark College/University of Oklahoma
(962-01-295)
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2:00 p.m.
Tragedy and Trigonometry: The Story of Harvard's John Farrar.
Amy K Ackerberg-Hastings*, Rockville, MD
(962-01-209)
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2:30 p.m.
Hilbert's Grundlagen der Geometrie and Its Relation to Euclid's Elements.
Craig G Fraser*, University of Toronto
(962-01-161)
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3:00 p.m.
Mathematics around 1900: Transition from one century to the next.
Erwin O. Kreyszig*, Carleton University
(962-01-58)
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3:30 p.m.
The Lost Squares of Dr. Franklin.
Paul C Pasles*, Villanova University
(962-01-113)
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4:00 p.m.
The Laws of Boole's Thought.
Stanley N Burris*, University of Waterloo
(962-01-253)
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