AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:43

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

Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The History of Mathematics, I
Room 333, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Adrian C. Rice, Randolph-Macon College arice4@rmc.edu
Amy E. Shell-Gellasch, U. S. Military Academy aa7423@usma.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Brought to book: The curious story of Guglielmo Libri.
  Adrian Rice*, Randolph-Macon College
  (979-01-15)
- 9:30 a.m.
  200 Years of West Point Mathematics: Profiles of Mathematical Soldiers and Trailblazers.
  Chris Arney*, College of Saint Rose
  (979-01-12)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Medieval Islamic Perspective on Indian Mathematics.
  Kim Plofker*, Brown University
  (979-01-213)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Analysis, Synthesis, and Trigonometry: From Pure Geometry to the Exact Sciences in Greece and Medieval Islam.
  Glen R Van Brummelen*, Bennington College
  (979-01-109)

Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on The History of Mathematics, II
Room 333, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Adrian C. Rice, Randolph-Macon College arice4@rmc.edu
Amy E. Shell-Gellasch, U. S. Military Academy aa7423@usma.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Nodding Sphere and the Bird's Beak: a Vignette from the Euler-d'Alembert Correspondence.
  Robert E Bradley*, Adelphi University
  (979-01-218)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some connections within Euler's early mathematics.
  C Edward Sandifer*, Western Connecticut State U
  (979-01-106)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Leonhard Euler, Frederick II and the scientific imperative of the Berlin Academy.
  John D. Glaus*, The Euler Society
  (979-01-25)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Bad Logic, Bad Mathematics: Milton's Justification of the Ways of Number to Man.
  Thomas Drucker*, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
  (979-01-21)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Mathematics in the thought of Nicholas Cusanus.
  Hardy Grant*, York University, Toronto
  (979-01-105)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The History of Mathematics, III
Room 333, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Adrian C. Rice, Randolph-Macon College arice4@rmc.edu
Amy E. Shell-Gellasch, U. S. Military Academy aa7423@usma.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Taylor's Theorem: A historical link between discrete and continuous mathematics.
  Dick Jardine*, Keene State College
  (979-01-115)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Jacobian School in Mathematics?
  Tom Archibald*, Acadia University
  (979-01-54)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Kinematic space in special relativity.
  Paul R Wolfson*, West Chester University of PA
  (979-01-38)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Evolution of American Geometry Education, 1750-1950.
  Amy Ackerberg-Hastings*, Rockville, MD
  (979-01-09)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Old Books and Hidden Gems.
  Amy Shell-Gellasch*, United States Military Academy
  (979-01-11)

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