AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:31

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

Saturday April 12, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on the History of Mathematics, I
Room 414, Main Building
Organizers:
Patricia R. Allaire, Queensborough Community College, CUNY pallaire@qcc.cuny.edu
Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Circles in Old Babylonian mathematics.
  Duncan J. Melville*, St. Lawrence University
  (986-01-190)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Philolaus and the mathematical philosophy of the Pythagoreans.
  Hardy Grant*, York University, Toronto
  (986-01-49)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Enrico Mart\'\i nez in Context.
  Erin Smith*, Roger Williams University
  Bruce Burdick, Roger Williams University
  (986-01-228)

Saturday April 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on the History of Mathematics, II
Room 414, Main Building
Organizers:
Patricia R. Allaire, Queensborough Community College, CUNY pallaire@qcc.cuny.edu
Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Mario Pieri's role in the history of algebraic geometry and foundations of mathematics - a work in progress.
  Elena Anne Marchisotto*, California State University
  (986-01-150)
- 3:00 p.m.
  William Fogg Osgood's 1897 Paper on Non-Uniform Convergence.
  Lawrence D'Antonio*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
  (986-01-91)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Charles L. Dodgson's Memoria Technica Cipher.
  Francine F. Abeles*, Kean University
  (986-01-77)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Shifts in time: cryptography and randomness.
  Sven Dietrich*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (986-01-219)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Wu's Amazing Geometry Theorem Proving Machine.
  Ronald I Sklar*, St. John's University
  Ronald W. Fechter, St. John's University
  (986-01-10)
- 5:00 p.m.
  History (1947--1999) of Some Evolution Partial Differential Equations: Decay of solutions for some nonlinear, dispersive wave equations.
  Robert L Luo*, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
  (986-35-94)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on the History of Mathematics, III
Room 414, Main Building
Organizers:
Patricia R. Allaire, Queensborough Community College, CUNY pallaire@qcc.cuny.edu
Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  A Golden Decade: Euler in Berlin, 1746 - 1756 -- A Preliminary Study.
  Ronald S. Calinger*, Catholic University of America
  (986-01-218)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Euler's Solution of the Basel Problem - The Longer Story.
  Ed Sandifer*, Western Connecticut State U
  (986-01-65)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Euler's All-Purpose Counterexample.
  Robert E. Bradley*, Adelphi University
  (986-01-206)
- 10:30 a.m.
  d'Alembert's proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra: mathematical issues.
  Christopher Baltus*, SUNY College at Oswego
  (986-01-50)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on the History of Mathematics, IV
Room 414, Main Building
Organizers:
Patricia R. Allaire, Queensborough Community College, CUNY pallaire@qcc.cuny.edu
Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Followers of Franklin.
  Paul C. Pasles*, Villanova University
  (986-01-44)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Mathematics Curriculum At West Point: The First Hundred Years.
  V. Frederick Rickey, United States Military Academy
  Amy Shell-Gellasch*, United States Military Academy
  (986-01-38)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Mathematical Aspects of Franz Reuleaux Kinematic Model Collection.
  Daina Taimina*, Cornell University
  (986-01-177)

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