Events Archive
Events Archive
14 November 2024, Aditya Kolachana (Indian Institute of Technology) “History and highlights of the Kerala school of mathematics“. Abstract
24 September 2024, David Waszek (École Normale Supérieure) “Mathematical notations in research contexts: Revisiting Leibniz’s analogy between powers and differences“. Abstract
23 September 2024, Isobel Falconer (St Andrews) “St Andrews and Mathematics: Four Centuries of Rare Books and Manuscripts”, a mini-workshop in University Collections, Martyrs Kirk, North St, St Andrews.
15 May 2024, Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country) “Edmund T. Whittaker, Physics and Catholicism. Thoughts of a convert“. Abstract
3 April 2024, Brigitte Stenhouse (Open University) “The hidden labour of mathematical translations: A tale of two marriages“. Abstract
25 March 2024, Bernadette Lessel (MPWIG) “On mathematical models of mass generation, now and then” Abstract
22 February 2024, Emmylou Haffner (ITEM, ÉNS-CNRS) “Drafts, notes and notebooks: some things we see behind the curtain of published mathematics“. Abstract
19 February 2024, Chanchan Guo (Yan’an University) “Evolution and Continuation of the Historical Study of non-Euclidean Geometry“. Abstract
6 December 2023 (with CREEM), Maria Kiladi (UCL) “Eugenics and Statistics at UCL: Karl Pearson and the Department of Applied Statistics and Eugenics, 1913-1933“. Abstract
22 November 2023, Richard Oosterhoff (Edinburgh) “Henri de Monantheuil’s Astronomical Teaching“. Abstract
27 September 2023, E A Hunter (Chicago) “Understanding Nature through Hymns and Math: Proclus’ De Sacrificio and his Commentary on Euclid”. Abstract
20-21April 2023, Workshop on “The Gravitational Constant, from the Local to the Universal”. Speakers & Abstracts
20 February 2023, An afternoon of history of mathematics.
- Main speaker: Nicolas Michel (Wuppertal) “The Sailor and the Savant: Discipleship, epistemic authority, and the Chasles-De Jonquières controversy“. Abstract
- Short talk: Emma Baxter (St Andrews) “Soviet Mathematics Textbooks as a Reflection of 1930s Stalinist Culture“. Abstract
- Short talk: Kate Hindle (St Andrews) “Ancient Greek impact on D’Arcy Thompson’s Mathematics“. Abstract
14 December 2022, Philippe Schmid (St Andrews & Harvard) “Journals as Teaching Aids: Student Note-Taking and Mathematical Culture in the Early Scottish Enlightenment”. Abstract
29 September 2022, Michael Barany (Edinburgh) “Making the Modern Mathematician: Identity, politics, inclusion, exclusion, and the accidental rise of a ‘young man’s game.’” Abstract
7 October 2021, Jemma Lorenat (Pitzer) “An Okapi Hypothesis: non-Euclidean geometry and the professional expert in American mathematics”. Abstract
12-14 July 2021, St Andrews hosted the joint British Society for the History of Mathematics and Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques. Meeting website
8 April 2021, Tom Archibald (SFU) “Justifying abstraction: Examples from Integration Theory to 1940 with a focus on F. Riesz and O. Nikodym”. Abstract
27 November 2019, Professor Kenneth Falconer (St Andrews) “From Neptune to St Andrews: John Couch Adams at 200”. Abstract
16 October 2019, Professor Deborah Kent (Drake) “’Glorious beyond description’: Eclipse expeditions and 19th century American science”. Abstract
14 October 2019, Martin Macbeath (St Andrews) “From Finger Counting to Inscriptions during the Neolithic Age”. Abstract
5 June 2019, Professor David Horowitz (Golden West College) “Maclaurin and Morality”. Abstract
23 April 2019, Dr Daniel J. Mitchell (Aachen) “”The Etherealisation of Common Sense”? Late Victorian Opposition to Maxwell’s Mathematics of Measurement”. Abstract
21 Feb 2019: Professor Danny Otero (Xavier University). Lecture: “Transforming Instruction in Undergraduate Mathematics via Primary Historical Sources”. Abstract
23-24 Nov 2018: Workshop on Mathematical and Astronomical Practices in pre-Enlightenment Scotland
11-14 June 2018: History of Mathematics Workshop at the British Mathematical Colloquium. Abstracts.
26-29 March 2018: Conflicting Attitudes in the History of Mathematical Science (Minisymposium at the BAMC). Abstracts
16-17 Sept 2016: Mathematical Biography: A MacTutor Celebration