University of Virginia 27-30 May 2018
CIRMATH includes researchers from Europe, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Since 2014, it has sponsored a series of colloquia at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris and at the University of Lorraine., while various of its members have participated in conferences at the Royal Society of London, the Lisbon meeting of the European Society for the History of Science, the Centro internazionale per la ricerca matematica in Trento, Italy, the Fourth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education in Turin, Italy, and the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm. The CIRMATH-Americas meeting, scheduled for 27-30 May 2018 at the University of Virginia, will be the group’s first meeting in the United States, a country, especially in the period from 1850 to 1950, which played an increasingly large role in international mathematical developments.
The CIRMATH-Americas meeting has the following goals:
- To provide a venue in which European CIRMATH members can intensively interact with historians of mathematics from the Americas working on related historical questions.
- To provide researchers the opportunity to explore the significant archival and library holdings at both the University of Virginia and the nearby Library of Congress.
- To provide opportunities for American and European researchers at earlier stages in their careers to develop significant and enduring research collaborations with established scholars in the history of mathematics.
- To trace the impact of journals on the circulation of mathematics within the Americas and between the Americas and Europe from 1850 to 1950.
Organizers:
Karen Parshall (University of Virginia), Sloan Despeaux (Western Carolina University), Hélène Gispert (Université de Paris Sud – GHDSO), Philippe Nabonnand (Université de Lorraine – AHP-PRIST), Jeanne Peiffer (CNRS – CHK)
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
MONDAY, MAY 28
9:20-9:30 Welcome
9:30-10:00 Deborah Kent
Ambitious editors discover a divided audience: Nineteenth-century
mathematical periodicals in the U.S.
10:10-10:40 Jemma Lorenat
Mathematics for Philosophers: The Monist from 1890 to 1906
11:20-11:50 Della Dumbaugh
Aiming for high standards: Solomon Lefschetz as editor of the Annals of
Mathematics
2:30-3:00 Laura Turner
Making Higher Mathematics Accessible: Miller’s Project for a Mathematical
Dictionary
3:10-3:40 Michael Barany
Reviews, Circulation and Mathematical Infrastructuralism
4:00-4:30 Christopher Phillips
Biostatistics and the Making of Medical Knowledge
4:30-5:00 Discussion
TUESDAY, MAY 29
9:30-10:00 Amy Ackerberg-Hastings
Charles Davies as a Philosopher of Mathematics Education
10:10-10:40 Caroline Ehrhardt
The Locus of Transnational Exchanges: Mathematical Journals for Students
and Teachers, 1860s-1914.
11:20-11:50 Samson Duran
Circulations of US geometric knowledge by mathematical journals from
USA to foreign countries: E. J. Wilczynski and the US school of Projective Differential Geometry between 1900 and 1923
2:30-3:00 Adrian Rice
The Hardy-Littlewood Circle Method: A Case Study in the Circulation of
Ideas
3:10-3:40 Thomas Preveraud
Descriptive geometry from Le Guide du Carossier to The New York Coach-
Maker’s Magazine. A case of transatlantic mathematical circulation through
non specialized journals (1865-1872)
4:00-4:30 Emily Redman
Popular (?) Math: Conflicting presentations of mathematics education in the
20th-century popular press in America
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30
9:30-10:00 Rogerio Monteiro de Siqueira
Periodicals for engineers in the last decades of the Second Empire in Brazil:
market, libraries and auctions.
10:10-10:40 Brittany Shields
“Our Technical Books are Weapons of War:” Mathematics and Technical
Training during the Second World War
11:10-12:00 Discussion