AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session
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Fall Western Sectional Meeting
California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
October 24-25, 2015 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1114
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics
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Sunday October 25, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, I
Room 401, Langsdorf Hall
Organizers:
Jim Tattersall, Providence College TAT@providence.edu
Shawn McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino
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8:00 a.m.
Astronomical Algorithms in Medieval Islam: Geometry, Arithmetic, and the Unbridgeable Chasm.
Glen R Van Brummelen*, Quest University
(1114-01-87) -
8:30 a.m.
Insights into Bézout's theorem from Descartes to Pieri.
Elena Anne Corie Marchisotto*, California State University, Northridge California
(1114-01-162) -
9:00 a.m.
Geometry and the Incongruous Crow.
James T. Smith*, San Francisco State University
(1114-01-66) -
9:30 a.m.
The geometric representation of some classical series.
Mits Kobayashi*, Cal Poly Pomona
(1114-51-347) -
10:00 a.m.
Mathematical communities in the photographs of Paul Halmos.
Janet L Beery*, University of Redlands
(1114-01-272) -
10:30 a.m.
Recognizing Ricci.
Judith R Goodstein*, Visiting Associate, Einstein Papers Project, Caltech
(1114-01-146)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 25, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, II
Room 401, Langsdorf Hall
Organizers:
Jim Tattersall, Providence College TAT@providence.edu
Shawn McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino
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3:00 p.m.
Archimedes Redux Eureka Meets Mathematica, MATLAB & a 3-D Printer in 2015.
Shirley B. Gray, Ph.D.*, California State Univ., Los Angeles
(1114-01-34) -
3:30 p.m.
Quadrivium: The Structure of Mathematics as Described in Isidore of Seville's Ethymologies.
Isabel M. Serrano*, California State University, Fullerton
Bogdan D Suceavă, California State University, Fullerton
Lucy H. Odom, San Francisco State University
(1114-01-38) -
4:00 p.m.
Motivated Proofs.
Rebecca Lea Morris*, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Philosophy
(1114-01-193) -
4:30 p.m.
Monism, pluralism, and the axiom of constructibility.
Jesse Elliott*, California State University, Channel Islands
(1114-00-184) -
5:00 p.m.
Mathematical rigor, modern logic, and elementary geometry.
John Mumma*, California State University, San Bernardino
(1114-03-323) -
5:30 p.m.
Representing the Heisenberg group: ideas from Frobenius to von Neumann.
Sergio Albeverio, University of Bonn
Ambar N Sengupta*, Louisiana State University
(1114-43-46)
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3:00 p.m.
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