AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, November 10, 2009 00:42:31

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday November 7, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, I
Room 138, Engineering 2
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University San Bernardino smcmurra@csusb.edu
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Benjamin Finkel and the Ohio Normal University Herald.
  James J Tattersall*, Providence College
  (1054-01-110)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Vito Volterra.
  Mario U Martelli*, Claremont Graduate University
  (1054-01-99)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Sums of Powers of Integers.
  Janet L. Beery*, University of Redlands
  (1054-01-56)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Intrinsic Conics of the Hyperbolic Plane.
  John Sarli*, California State University at San Bernardino
  (1054-51-32)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Green's Theorem.
  Victor L. Shapiro*, University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA
  (1054-01-21)

Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, II
Room 138, Engineering 2
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University San Bernardino smcmurra@csusb.edu
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Who Discovered the Icosahedron?
  John C. Baez*, U. C. Riverside
  (1054-01-71)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Definitions and Nondefinability in Geometry: Legacies of Mario Pieri and Alfred Tarski.
  James T Smith*, San Francisco State University
  (1054-01-41)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Gauss and the Sums of Three Squares.
  Lawrence A. D'Antonio*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
  (1054-01-40)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Resolvents of Polynomial Equations.
  Paul R. Wolfson*, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  (1054-01-128)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Henri Lebesgue and Arc Length.
  Harriet M Lord*, Cal Poly Pomona
  (1054-01-141)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Hugh MacColl and Charles L. Dodgson on Axioms and Non-Euclidean Geometry.
  Francine F. Abeles*, Kean University
  (1054-01-17)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org