AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:04

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Eastern 1993 Spring Sectional Meeting
Washington, DC, April 17-18, 1993
Meeting #881

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

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Special Session on History of Mathematics

• Saturday April 17, 1993, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
  Room 3116, Downing Hall
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Eighty years of Sommerfeld's radiation condition.
    Steven H. Schot*, American University
    (881-01-07)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Euclid and his Victorian defender.
    Thomas Drucker*, Modern Logic, Pennsylvania
    (881-01-163)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Root extraction in the American curriculum.
    David L. Roberts*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    (881-01-23)
• Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:45 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
  Room 3116, Downing Hall
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    The volume of a sphere in ancient China.
    Frank Swetz*, Pennsylvania State University
    (881-01-118)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    The algebra of logic: What Boole really started.
    Judy Green*, Marymount University
    (881-01-157)
  • 4:05 p.m.
    Leonhard Euler: The Berlin years--A preliminary study.
    Ronald Calinger*, Catholic University of America
    (881-01-143)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    The American Mathematical Endeavor: 1776-1876.
    Karen V. H. Parshall*, University of Virginia
    (881-01-125)
• Sunday April 18, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
  Room 103, Douglass Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Calculus after the calculus.
    Paul D. Scofield*, Washington & Lee University
    (881-01-167)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Saint Vincent and the logarithm.
    V. Frederick Rickey*, Bowling Green State University
    (881-01-190)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Pascal's triangle and the solution of polynolmial equations.
    Victor J. Katz*, University of the District of Columbia
    (881-01-162)
• Sunday April 18, 1993, 2:45 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
  Room 103, Douglass Hall
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Biographical remarks on the life and work of Joaquin Basilio Diaz.
    Florence Fasanelli*, Mathematical Association of America
    (881-01-84)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Calculus for a new century: Granville, Smith and Longley.
    George M. Rosenstein*, Franklin & Marshall College
    (881-01-26)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Thomas Jefferson's contributions to mathematics.
    J. J. Tattersall*, Providence College
    (881-01-63)

Inquiries:  meet@ams.org

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