AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 16, 2005 01:09:10

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

Saturday October 8, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Room 102, Olin Hall
Organizers:
Patricia R. Allaire, Queensborough Community College, CUNY pallaire@qcc.cuny.edu
Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
Jeff Suzuki, Bard College jeff_suzuki@yahoo.com
- 9:00 a.m.
  Changing Proofs for the Quadrature of the Parabola, II.
  Gordon A Swain*, Ashland University
  (1009-01-45)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The History of Euler's Conjecture.
  Lawrence D'Antonio*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
  (1009-01-133)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Euler's Application of the Partition Function.
  Robert E. Bradley*, Adelphi University
  (1009-01-194)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Euler and Series.
  C Edward Sandifer*, Western Connecticut State University
  (1009-01-55)

Saturday October 8, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Room 102, Olin Hall
Organizers:
Patricia R. Allaire, Queensborough Community College, CUNY pallaire@qcc.cuny.edu
Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
Jeff Suzuki, Bard College jeff_suzuki@yahoo.com
- 3:00 p.m.
  Greek mathematics and Greek skepticism.
  Hardy Grant*, York University, Toronto
  (1009-01-77)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Lewis Carroll's Diagrammatic Logic System For Syllogisms.
  Francine F. Abeles*, Kean University
  (1009-01-17)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Godel, Positivism, and Incompletenes.
  Steven Gimbel*, Gettysburg College
  Kellen Dwyer, Gettysburg College
  (1009-01-64)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Von Neumann, Godel, and Bernays--Putting Ordinals in Ordnung.
  Thomas Drucker*, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
  (1009-01-140)

Sunday October 9, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Room 102, Olin Hall
Organizers:
Patricia R. Allaire, Queensborough Community College, CUNY pallaire@qcc.cuny.edu
Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
Jeff Suzuki, Bard College jeff_suzuki@yahoo.com
- 8:30 a.m.
  Some Highlights from the Printed Mathematics of Colonial Mexico and Peru.
  Bruce S. Burdick*, Roger Williams University
  (1009-01-214)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Curioisities in Nineteenth Century Mathematics Textbooks.
  Andrew B Perry*, Springfield College
  (1009-01-89)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Unsolved Problems in the History of Undergraduate Mathematics.
  Walter Meyer*, Adelphi University
  (1009-01-32)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Contributions of Four "Mathematical People" to the Mathematical Ballistics of the World War I Era in America.
  Alan Gluchoff*, Villanova University
  (1009-01-14)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Franchise Players and Modi Operandi of the Sections of the MAA: 1915 - 1965.
  Richard M. Davitt*, University of Louisville
  (1009-01-27)

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