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Research In Progress
The Queen’s College, Oxford (full details below).
Our annual meeting which provides an opportunity for research students in any area of the history of mathematics to present their work to a friendly and supportive audience. Alongside the student speakers there will be a selection of posters on display throughout the day. The meeting will be held in person only, and will be held in English.
Bookings for this event have now closed. If you would like to join a waitlist, please contact the meetings co-ordinator at brigitte.stenhouse@bshm.ac.uk.
Programme
10.30 Arrival
10.50 BSHM Welcome
11.00 Rui Yuan (Sphere/Université Paris Cité), From Philology to Mathematics: What are the relationships between the marks and annotations borne by the earliest extant manuscript of the Chinese mathematical treatise Sea Mirror of the Circle Measurements and the late 18th-century editions of the work?
11.30 Emma Baxter (University of Oxford), Anxiety and Crisis in Late Imperial Russian and Early Soviet Mathematics, 1900-35
12.00 Petra Stanković (University of Oxford), Between Science and Politics: The 1970 Nice International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM)
12.30 Elinor Flavell (Open University), A Whistle-Stop Tour of the First 159 Days of my PhD.
12.45 Stephen Dorman (Open University), Undergraduate Essay Prizewinner, Mollie Orshansky and the Moral Arithmetic of Poverty
13.00 Lunch (provided)
14.00 Megan Briers (MPIWG/TU Berlin), Gender, Observers’ Bodies and Nineteenth-Century Measurements of the Distance to the Sun
14.30 Thomas Glasman (University of Oxford), Private Correspondence and Public Writing on the Paradoxes of Set Theory
15.00 Ties van Gemert (Tilburg University), Gerrit Mannoury (1867-1956) on the Politics of Mathematical Logic
15.30 Shaivi Darsi (Queen Mary University of London), Undergraduate Essay Runner Up, From Dice to Derivatives: How 17th-century Gambling Shaped Modern Financial Mathematics
15.45 Refreshment Break
16.15 Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (University of Copenhagen), John Fauvel Invited Lecture, A Problem-Oriented Multiple Perspective Approach to History of Mathematics Illustrated by Examples from the 20th century: How can it fill “lacunas”?
17.15 Close of Meeting
Posters
Pablo Gómez Samper (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), Paolo Bonasoni’s Algebra Geometrica (c.1580s, MS. 314 Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna).
María de Lourdes Ortega Méndez (Johannes Gutenburg-University Mainz), Abstraction and Material Aids in the History of Mathematics: Mechanical Harmonic Analyzers (1890-1925).
Lukas Schievelbusch (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), The Expansion and Differentiation of the Mathematical Community in the Cold War US (1945-1991), measured by earned PhDs.
Research in Progress Book of Abstracts 2026.
If you would like to take advantage of the BSHM Member pricing, membership starts from just £18 a year and can be purchased via the BSHM website.
The day before this meeting the ICHM will be holding a satellite meeting, also in Oxford, to celebrate honours recently awarded to historians of mathematics. Find out more.