AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:40

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

Friday September 26, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Room B-4270, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Israel Kleiner, York University kleiner@yorku.ca
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Duncan F. Gregory: The Unknown Gregory
  Patricia R. Allaire*, Queensborough Community College, The City University of New York
  (924-01-280)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Measure vs Integral in the Bourbaki Integration
  Liliane Beaulieu*, University of Montreal
  (924-01-264)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Proof: A Many-Splendored Thing
  Israel Kleiner*, York University
  (924-01-138)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Cubic curves, coordinates and classification: geometric style between Newton and Euler.
  John D Anderson*, University of Toronto
  (924-01-262)

Friday September 26, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Room 225, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Israel Kleiner, York University kleiner@yorku.ca
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Maaseh Hoshev - The Arithmetic, Algebra and Combinatorics of Levi ben Gershom
  Shai Simonson*, Stonehill College
  (924-01-192)
- 2:40 p.m.
  From Anaximander to St. Augustine: Early mathematical, theological, and physical conceptions of the infinite.
  Gregory Moore*, McMaster University
  (924-01-235)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Mathematics in "La Logique ou l'Art de Penser" of Port-Royal
  Jacques Lefebvre*,
  (924-01-198)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Eulerian Heuristics and the zeta function
  Roger D Rosenkrantz*, Dartmouth College
  (924-01-271)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Toward a History of Primality Testing
  Hardy Grant*, York University
  (924-01-233)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Room 225, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Israel Kleiner, York University kleiner@yorku.ca
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The concept of integration in Euler's analysis
  Craig Fraser*, University of Toronto
  (924-01-129)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
Room 225, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Israel Kleiner, York University kleiner@yorku.ca
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Who is Ragsdale of the Ragsdale conjecture?
  Judy Green*, Marymount University
  (924-01-282)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Toward an unified algebra in the middle of the 17th century
  Louis Charbonneau*,
  (924-01-191)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Some Thoughts on Nicomachean Mathematics
  James J Tattersall*, Providence College
  (924-01-139)
- 4:30 p.m.
  History of Two
  J. Lambek*, McGill University
  (924-01-94)

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