From Sumer to Spreadsheets: The History of Mathematical Table Making
The British Society for the History of Mathematics and the Department for
Continuing Education, University of Oxford are holding a conference in
Oxford on 22-23 September 2001 on the history of mathematical tables.
Tables of one sort or another have been an important feature of
mathematical, scientific, religious and business activity for some 4500
years. This weekend conference will address the technical, institutional,
intellectual and social history of tables, from earliest times until the
late twentieth century. Speakers include Eleanor Robson, Benno van Dalen,
Graham Jagger, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Michael R. Williams, Stephen Johnston,
Doron Swade, Arthur Norberg, George Wilkins, Mary Croarken, David Grier,
Eddy Higgs, Chris Lewin, and Martin Campbell-Kelly. Further details and
booking information from the conference web site
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hoc/BSHM2001/ or details from Mary Croarken,
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London [ [log in to unmask] ] and
booking inquires to Hazel Richards, Administrator, Day & Weekend Schools,
OUDCE, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA, Tel. 01865 270380
[log in to unmask] ]. The organisers are grateful for sponsorship
from the London Mathematical Society.
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