Research in Progress 2019

A link to the full programme (including abstracts) can be found at the bottom of this page.

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10:00 - Registration and coffee

10:20 - Welcome

10:30 - Brigitte Stenhouse (The Open University): ‘Sometimes right and sometimes wrong’: The Early Mathematical Publications of Mary Somerville

11:00 - Michael Chalmers (Sorbonne Université): Georges Bouligand’s Concept of Direct Methods in Mathematics

11:30 - Kevin Tracey (London Science Museum & Swansea University): Calculating Value: Exploring the Use, Collection, and Afterlives of Early Modern Mathematical Texts

12:00 - Lunch

13:30 - Kevin Baker (Oxford University): How To Read A Book You Don't Understand: John Locke's Commonplacing Routine and his Reading of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica

14:00 - Joseph Bennett (Institute of Technology, Carlow): Henry Smith and the Arithmetical Theory of Forms

14:30 - Nicolas Michel (Laboratoire SPHERE; Université Paris-Diderot/CNRS): Lost in Translation: On the Rewritings of Chasles’ Theory of Characteristics (1864–1880)

15:00 - Kamilla Rekvenyi (St Andrews University): Paul Erdős’ Mathematics as a Social Activity

15:20 - Refreshment break

15:50 - Niccolò Guicciardini (Università degli Studi di Milano): Anachronism(s) in the History of Mathematics

17:00 - Close of meeting