AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:32

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday May 3, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The History of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Mathematics, I
Room 425, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Shawnee McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
James A. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The evolutionary origins of mathematics ability.
  Keith J Devlin*, Stanford University
  (987-01-186)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Ruth Moufang and the foundations of geometry.
  John Colin Stillwell*, University of San Francisco
  (987-01-28)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Angle of Parallelism in the Development of Linear Elasticity.
  John Sarli*, CSU San Bernardino
  (987-51-35)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Erdos-Szekeres Theorem.
  Ronald Graham*, UCSD
  (987-05-59)

Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on The History of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Mathematics, II
Room 425, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Shawnee McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
James A. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Riemann's Explicit Formula.
  Jeffrey Stopple*, UC Santa Barbara
  (987-11-42)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Moments of the Riemann zeta function: from Ingham, Hardy and Littlewood to today.
  Jennifer E Beineke*, Western New England College
  (987-01-146)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Mathematical Questions and Their Solutions from The Educational Times.
  James J Tattersall*, Providence College
  Shawnee L McMurran, California State University San Bernardino
  (987-01-65)

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