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Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
March 7-8, 2015 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1107
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics
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Saturday March 7, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, I
Room 239, Regents Hall
Organizers:
V. Frederick Rickey, West Point Military Academy
James J. Tattersall, Providence College TAT@providence.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Training Women in Mathematical Research: The First Fifty Years of Bryn Mawr College (1885-1935).
Karen V. H. Parshall*, University of Virginia
(1107-01-82) -
10:00 a.m.
Who's Anna? Burying Mathematics Books in order to Remember the Civil War Dead at Nineteenth-Century New England Colleges.
Andrew Fiss*, Michigan Technological University
(1107-01-377) -
10:30 a.m.
International Influences on American Mathematicians, 1750--1850.
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings*, University of Maryland University College
(1107-01-33)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, II
Room 239, Regents Hall
Organizers:
V. Frederick Rickey, West Point Military Academy
James J. Tattersall, Providence College TAT@providence.edu
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2:00 p.m.
The Role of Third Millennium Metrology in the Development of the Mesopotamian Sexagesimal Place-Value System.
Duncan J. Melville*, St. Lawrence University
(1107-01-285) -
2:30 p.m.
The Law of the Lever: Archimedes vs. Mach.
Chris Rorres*, University of Pennsylvania
(1107-01-66) -
3:00 p.m.
Stratification in the American Mathematical Community a Century Ago, Viewed Objectively.
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell*, Smithsonian Institution
(1107-01-277) -
3:30 p.m.
More about American Women in Mathematics.
Judy Green*, Marymount University
(1107-01-380)
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2:00 p.m.
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Sunday March 8, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, III
Room 239, Regents Hall
Organizers:
V. Frederick Rickey, West Point Military Academy
James J. Tattersall, Providence College TAT@providence.edu
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8:30 a.m.
"Geometrical figures in physical proofs".
Lydia Patton*, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
(1107-01-364) -
9:00 a.m.
"The god Mars helped his fledging endeavor:" World War II, Richard Courant and Mathematics at New York University.
Brit Shields*, University of Pennsylvania
(1107-01-473) -
9:30 a.m.
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10:00 a.m.
Number theory proofs in nineteenth-century American algebra textbooks: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
David Lindsay Roberts*, Prince George's Community College
(1107-01-174) -
10:30 a.m.
Newton, Leibniz--what's the difference?
Paul R Wolfson*, West Chester University
(1107-01-99)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday March 8, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, IV
Room 239, Regents Hall
Organizers:
V. Frederick Rickey, West Point Military Academy
James J. Tattersall, Providence College TAT@providence.edu
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3:00 p.m.
The Role of Mathematics in the Encyclopédie.
Lawrence D'Antonio*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
(1107-01-336) -
3:30 p.m.
A dualist perspective on the axiom of constructibility.
Jesse Elliott*, California State University, Channel Islands
(1107-00-233) -
4:00 p.m.
Logic in Italy from Peano to WWII.
Andrea Pedeferri*, George Washington University
(1107-01-222) -
4:30 p.m.
100 Years of Mathematical Logic: From Philosophy to Mathematics (and Back Again?).
K. J. Mourad*, Dept. oF Mathematics Georgetown University
(1107-01-506)
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3:00 p.m.
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