List members may be interested in the BSHM spring programme:
Research in Progress. Saturday 17 February 2018 in the Shulman Auditorium, The Queen’s College, Oxford
10.30 Registration and coffee
11.00 Welcome
11.10 BRIGITTE STENHOUSE Open University 'Mary Somerville’s On the Theory of Differences: A case study of researching an unpublished manuscript'
11.45 TROY ASTARTE Newcastle University 'Towards an interconnected history of semantics'
12.20 LIU XI Xi’an and Oxford Universities 'A comparison of Euler and Monge on developable surfaces'
14.00 Tba tba
14.20 JOHANN GAEBLER Oxford University 'Mathematics, reason, and the courtroom: George Boole and The Laws of Thought
14.55 KEVIN BAKER Oxford University Title tba
15.45 Professor CATHERINE GOLDSTEIN CNRS, Institut de mathematiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, Paris
Invited lecture: 'Chessboards and numbers: the case of Henri Delannoy'
Spinning, Stalling and Falling Apart: Flight and World War I
Saturday 24 February 2018 - 11.00
The Old Museum, Belfast
Tony Royle, historian of mathematics and former airline captain will describe the nature of the contemporary mathematical and engineering debates surrounding flight, and the practical steps taken in Britain to create safer aircraft prior to, and during, WW1. This lecture is run in conjunction with The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society and the Northern Ireland Science Festival.
The History of Computing Beyond the Computer
Wednesday 21 March 2018 - 17.00 to Thursday 22 March 2018 - 17.00
Oxford, Mathematical Institute
The Oxford Mathematics Institute and the British Society for the History of Mathematics host “History of Computing beyond the Computer" on 21-22 March.
21 March 2018
17:00 Andrew Hodges, University of Oxford, author of "Alan Turing: The Enigma” on 'Alan Turing: soft machine in a hard world.’
22 March 2018
9:00 Registration
9:30 Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway University of London, on Charles Babbage's design notation
10:15 Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, Universitetet i Agder, on early numerical methods in the analysis of the Northern Lights
11:30 Julianne Nyhan, University College London, on Father Busa and humanities data
12:15 Cliff Jones, University of Newcastle, on the history of programming language semantics
14:00 Mark Priestley, author of "ENIAC in Action, Making and Remaking the Modern Computer"
14:45 Marie Hicks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of "Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge In Computing"
16:00 Panel discussion to include Martin Campbell-Kelly (Warwick), Andrew Herbert (TNMOC), and Ursula Martin (Oxford)
History of Cryptography and Codes. Saturday 19 May 2018 (All day). Birkbeck, London (programme to be finalised)
Mathematics and Patronage Sat 23 June 2018 Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford (programme to be finalised)
For details and how to join: https://www.bshm.ac.uk/
Jane Wess
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