Research in Progress

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. Our keynote speaker will be Dr Rebekah Higgitt (National Museums Scotland). Scroll down to download the book of abstracts. 

Tickets cost £22 for BSHM members, £32 for non-members, and £5 for students. Online booking has now closed; if you would like to attend, please contact brigitte.stenhouse@bshm.ac.uk. 

Information on the accessibility of the venue (The Shulman Auditorium, The Queen's College) can be found by clicking this link.

Programme

10:00–10:20 Registration

10:20–10:30 Welcome

10:30–11:00 Jason Yip, Middlesex University. Cultural Echoes in Mathematical Discourse: The Unique Style of Ancient Chinese Treatises

11:00–11:30 David Virgili, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Antonio Hugo de Omerique, A Modern Geometer with Classical Roots

11:30–12:00 Refreshment break

12:00–12:30 Saša Popovic, University of Rijeka. Poincaré's Double Mistake and the Reception History of Veronese's Fondamenti di Geometria

12:30–13:00 Paul-Emmanuel Timotei, SPHERE Université Paris Cité. The Reduction of Singularities between Max Noether and Georges-Henri Halphen: What did a more geometric approach mean?

13:00–14:00 Lunch in the Schulman Foyer

14:00–14:30 Aoife Kearins, Independent Scholar. Place, Space, and the Mathematical Imagination: Resituating George Gabriel Stokes in Ireland

14:30–15:00 Kate Hindle, University of St Andrews. Placing D'Arcy Thompson in the History of Mathematics

15:00–15:15 Comfort break

15:15–15:30 Eleanor Brittain, University of Cambridge (BSHM Undergraduate Essay Prizewinner). Whipple Museum Object 1754: A Window into the Crossing of Mathematics, Religion and Art in the 17th Century

15:30–16.00 Clément Bonvoisin, SPHERE Université Paris Cité. Across Disciplinary Boundaries and State Borders. How Restricted Mathematical Knowledge Traveled from New Jersey to Moscow through an Engineering Textbook (1953-1956)

16:00-16.30 Frederike Lieven, Paris Sorbonne Université. "Shattering the Traditional Framework of Mathematical Instruction": Teaching "New Math" in a Modern Society

16:30–17:00 Refreshment break

17:00–18:00 Rebekah Higgitt, National Museums Scotland (Invited Lecture). Metropolitan Science and Mathematical Practice

18:00 Close of meeting