The British Society for the History of Mathematics: www.bshm.org
Research in Progress Meeting: Saturday 4 March 2006, 10.30 am to 5.30
pm, The Queen’s College, Oxford
An annual meeting for postgraduate students to talk about their
research.
Keynote speaker: Rüdiger Thiele (University of Leipzig): 'Fabricated
reality: historians and their interpretations of original sources'
Student speakers:
Mario Alosio, Warwick;
Charlie Care, Warwick: 'Re-inventing the integrating wheel: the
independence and interdependence of early planimeter design';
Stamatina Mastorakou, Imperial College;
Amirouche Moktefi, Strasbourg: 'Lewis Carroll and British symbolic
logic';
Heather Murray, Open University;
Irene Polo, Groningen: 'Models of sections of polytopes, by Boole
Stott';
Denise M. Sumpter, Imperial College: 'Preservation, innovation,
transformation … ? Ancient science in the late antique commentary
tradition';
Benjamin Wardhaugh, Oxford: 'The Musical Compass, and other oddities of
17th-century musical science'.
Cost (including coffee, lunch and tea): BSHM members £15 / non-members
£18. Deadline for registration is 25th February 2006.
Registration forms are available at www.bshm.org
Organisers: Jackie Stedall and Benjamin Wardhaugh
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