Research in Progress

Research in Progress is the BSHM's annual meeting for research students to speak about their work to a friendly and supportive audience.

Programme

• 10:30 Registration
• 11:00 Welcome
• 11:10 Rosie Cretney (Open University): J.H. Lambert on the mathematics of map-making
• 11:50 Audrey Borowski (UCL): Leibniz's mathematico-ontological method: transfiguring the infinite into the finite
• 12:30 Remus Stana (University of Glasgow): Mathematics in Nazi Germany
• 12:45 Eliza Cooke-Yarborough (University of Oxford): The Hadamard-Lévy theorem and its development over the course of the twentieth century
• 13:00 Lunch
• 14:00 Lukáš Vízek: Josef Úlehla (1852-1933) and his History of Mathematics
• 14:40 Panel discussion: The future for history of mathematics
• 15:30 Refreshment break
• 15:45 Professor Adrian Rice (Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, USA): 'Standing on the shoulders of giants', or How I became a historian of mathematics