AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 23, 2005 00:22:16

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

Saturday April 16, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Room 2108, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Gerbert, Pythagoras, and the Chromatic Scale.
  M. Elizabeth Mayfield*, Hood College
  (1007-01-59)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Foundations of Statistics in American Textbooks: Probability and Pedagogy in Historical Context.
  Patti W Hunter*, Westmont College
  (1007-01-145)
- 10:00 a.m.
  James Joseph Sylvester: A Jewish Mathematician in Victorian England.
  Karen V. H. Parshall*, University of Virginia
  (1007-01-72)

Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Room 2108, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mathematics at West Point in the Mid Twentieth Century.
  V. Frederick Rickey*, United States Military Academy
  (1007-01-140)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Thomas Harriot's communication of mathematics via symbols, tables, and page layout.
  Janet L. Beery*, University of Redlands
  (1007-01-121)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The National Academy of Sciences Unfit for `Linear Associative Algebra'?
  Deborah A. Kent*, University of Virginia
  (1007-01-172)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Development of the Tree Method in Logic from 1934 to 1968.
  Francine F. Abeles*, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Kean University
  (1007-01-77)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Contributions by Women to Nineteenth Century American Mathematical Journals.
  James J Tattersall*, Providence College
  Shawnee L McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino
  (1007-01-165)

Sunday April 17, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Room 2108, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The life, mathematics, and untimely death of Renato Caccioppoli (1904-1959).
  Mario U. Martelli*, Claremont McKenna College
  (1007-01-53)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Henri Lebesgue and Surface Area.
  Harriet M Lord*, Cal Poly Pomona
  (1007-01-116)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Euler's Idoneal Numbers.
  Jeffrey Stopple*, UC Santa Barbara
  (1007-01-65)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Barbilian Distances: The History.
  Wladimir G. Boskoff, University Ovidius Constantza, Romania
  Bogdan D. Suceava*, California State University, Fullerton
  (1007-01-39)

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