Dear Members,
Places are still available for the BSHM event at Rewley College, Oxford on Sat June 23rd.
'Mathematics and Patronage' explores the important but often overlooked theme of how mathematics has been, and is, supported. It considers relationships between mathematicians and the individuals, communities, or states that fund them, and the effect these relationships have had on the mathematics produced.
Programme:
9.30 Registration and coffee.
10.00 Introduction and welcome.
10.05 Professor Rob Iliffe, Oxford: ‘Creativity and mathematical patronage in the early modern period’.
10.55 Dr Stephen Clucas, Birkbeck, London: ’Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland (1564-1632) as a patron of mathematics’.
11.45 coffee.
12.10 Dr Sulamith Gehr, Basel: The role of patronage in mathematics illustrated through the example of the letter exchanges of Johann I Bernoulli.
1.00. lunch.
2.10 Dr Irina Gouzevitch (Centre Maurice Halbwachs, EHESS, Paris) and Dr Dmitri Gouzevitch, (Centre D’études Des Mondes Russe, Caucasien Et Centre-Européen, Paris): ‘Mathematics for the Russian Empire under Catherine II and Paul l's Reign’(1762-1801)".
3.00 Professor Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, Agder, Norway: ‘Patronage in mathematics between private, public and dictatorial interests: from Rockefeller to the Nazis’.
3.50 tea.
4.10 Professor Ursula Martin, Oxford : ‘Modern patronage and the impact of mathematics on a global scale’.
5.00 close.
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