Christmas Meeting and AGM 2024

Our annual Christmas Meeting again showcases the excellent current research being done in history of mathematics across a variety of themes and time periods.

The book of abstracts and the AGM materials can be found at the bottom of this page. The programme is as follows: 

11.00 Welcome

11.10 Xiaofei Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Joseph Fourier’s Teaching of Analysis at the École Polytechnique: A Study Based on Unpublished Manuscripts

11.50 Nina Engelhardt (University of Stuttgart) ‘I don’t care much whether I ever get to know anything – but I want to work out something in figures’: Mathematics in Virginia Woolf’s Novels and her Formalist Aesthetic

12.30 Comfort Break

12.40 Annual General Meeting (for BSHM members only)

14.10 S. Prashant Kumar (University of Chicago) “A Newton Among the Brahmins”: The History of Calculus and the Invention of the Kerala School of Mathematics

14.50 Sian Zelbo (Columbia University) Edgar J. Edmunds: The Mathematics Teacher Who Challenged the White Supremacist Movement in Post-Civil War New Orleans

15.30 Break

15.45 Stephen Stigler (University of Chicago, winner of 2023 Neumann Prize) Casanova's Lottery and the History of Mathematics

16.25 Closing remarks

16.30 End of Meeting

Registration is free and open to all. Follow this link to register for the Christmas Meeting. The zoom link will be circulated to registered participants on December 6th. 

BSHM Members who would like to attend the AGM but not the Christmas meeting can register at this link. 

If you have any queries please contact the Meetings Co-ordinator at brigitte.stenhouse@bshm.ac.uk.