Research in Progress
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 Norbert Schappacher (Strasbourg). Book Here.
Programme (A full book of abstracts is found below)
09:45-10.05 Registration
10:05-10.15 Welcome
10:15-10.45 Thomas Berthod (SPHERE, Université Paris Cité). Using Diagrams in Analysis: The Example of René Baire.
10:45-11:15 Megan Briers (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Technische Universität Berlin). Controversy over Correspondence: Richarda Airy and the Discovery of Neptune.
11:15-11.45 Refreshment Break
11:45-12:15 Steven Abbott Williams (Swansea University). Data in Sports: The Case of Wisden.
12:15-12:45 Jason Yip (Middlesex University) & Tom Briggs. Using History as a Pedagogical Tool for Enhancing Affective Development and Academic Performance in Year 7 and 8 Mathematics Classrooms.
12:45-13:45 Lunch and Poster Display
13:45-14:15 Petra Stanković (University of Oxford). Russian Mathematicians at the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences Post World War 1.
14:15-14:45 Elisa Dalgalarrondo (Sphere/Cité du Genre, Université Paris Cité). The `Femmes et mathématiques' Seminar at the Université d'Orsay: A Window on Women's Perceptions of their Place in Mathematics in France (1974).
14:45-15:00 David Thorsteinsson (University of St Andrews, Undergraduate Essay Prizewinner). Quantity, Culture, and Cognition: The Role of Agriculture in Shaping Numerical Concepts.
15:00-15:30 Refreshment Break
15:30-15:45 Andrew Halyburton (University of St Andrews, Undergraduate Essay Prizewinner). The Diffusion of Hindu-Arabic Numerals Throughout the Late Medieval Europe.
15:45-16:15 Elife Çetintas (Bergische Universität Wuppertal). The term 'Structure' in Mathematical Discourse from 1889 to 1942: A Bibliometric Study by Using the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik.
16:15-16:45 Kate Hindle (University of St Andrews). D'Arcy Thompson and the History of Mathematics in the Early 20th Century.
16:45-17:00 Comfort Break
17:00-18:00 Professor Norbert Schappacher (Université de Strasbourg, Invited Lecture). How to Embed Research on the History of 20th-century Mathematics into Historical Epistemology.
18:00 Close of Meeting
Poster Presenters
Salomé Chauvet (École Polytechnique, Université Lyon 1), Finite Groups in France at the Turn of the 19th Century: An Inquiry on the Determination of all Groups of Small Order.
Takaaki Iwai and Alisa Senses (University of St Andrews), Mathematical Influence of Fedor Baranov in the Soviet Union and Beyond.
Priyamvada Nambrath (University of Pennsylvania), Deciphering Vernacular Mathematics: Going Local in a Sanskritic World.
Tickets cost £25 for BSHM members, £35 for members, and £5 for students. They are available to purchase via eventbrite at this link: BSHM Research in Progress 2025 Tickets, Sat 22 Feb 2025 at 10:00 | Eventbrite . To pay by cash or cheque on the day, please contact brigitte.stenhouse@bshm.ac.uk. 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 Join Us tab above.
