AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:32

Associate secretaries:
William A Harris, Jr, AMS wharris@math.usc.edu

Saturday November 16, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Room 151, Sloan Laboratory
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, Pomona College
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Pythagoras and the Crisis over Incommensurability
  Samuel S. Kutler*, CSHPM
  (917-01-95)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The History of the Bachet Equation
  William Sherron Anglin*, University of Toronto
  (917-01-16)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Mathematician's Tale: The Life of Vito Volterra
  Judith Goodstein*, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
  (917-01-80)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A research student in Cambridge, 1931-1933.
  John Todd*, Caltech
  (917-01-14)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Multiple Fourier Series in the Post World War II Era.
  Victor L. Shapiro*, University of California, Riverside
  (917-01-78)

Saturday November 16, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Room 151, Sloan Laboratory
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, Pomona College
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  P.A.M. Dirac
  Shawnee L. McMurran*, Pomona College
  (917-01-69)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Solution to an ancient combinatorial riddle
  Richard P. Stanley*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (917-01-22)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Cubic curves, coordinates and classification: Geometric style between Newton and Euler.
  John D. Andersen*, Institute for History and Philosphy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
  (917-01-109)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Number Theoretic Legacy of Sophie Germain
  Reinhard C Laubenbacher*, New Mexico State University
  David Pengelley, New Mexico State University
  (917-01-36)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Report on the Institute in the History of Mathematics and its Use in Teaching
  David Barsky, California State University, San Marcos
  Janet Beery, University of Redlands
  John Burns, Mt. San Antonio College
  Shirley Gray, California State University, Los Angeles
  Lilian Metlitzky*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  Robert Stein, California State University, San Bernardino
  (917-01-119)

Sunday November 17, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Room 151, Sloan Laboratory
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, Pomona College
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Charles Babbage and Cryptography
  James J. Tattersall*, Providence College
  (917-01-72)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Early Voyages Into Logarithmic Seas
  Barnabas B. Hughes*, California State University, Northridge
  (917-01-18)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Historical pi calculations via the student project
  C. Ara Pehlivanian*, U.S. Military Academy, West Point
  (917-01-101)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Debeaune's Commentary on Descartes' Geometry
  C. Edward Sandifer*, Western Connecticut State University
  (917-01-97)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Early History of the Cornell Math Department: A Case Study inthe Emergence of the American Mathematical Community
  Gary G. Cochell*, Culver-Stockton College
  (917-01-107)

Sunday November 17, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
Room 151, Sloan Laboratory
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, Pomona College
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Charles L. Dodgson's Contributions to Linear Algebra and to the Theory of Parallels
  Francine F. Abeles*, Kean College of New Jersey
  (917-01-81)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Alfred Tarski comes to the USA: The hard years.
  Anita Burdman Feferman*, Stanford University
  (917-01-117)
- 4:00 p.m.
  When Tarski met G\"odel.
  Solomon Feferman*, Stanford University
  (917-01-118)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Mathematical Etymology
  John Horton Conway*, Princeton University
  (917-01-126)

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