1. 9th May: LMS 150th Anniversary BSHM-LMS De Morgan Day De Morgan House, Russell Square, London.
Speakers: Adrian Rice, ‘An Introduction to the Life and Work of Augustus De Morgan’, Sloan Despeaux, @Augustus De ‘Morgan’s ‘Budget of Paradoxes’. John Heard, ‘Augustus De Morgan and the Early History of the London Mathematical Society’ Ian Stewart, ‘Augustus De Morgan and George Boole’ Wilfrid Hodges, ‘The Influence of Augustus De Morgan’.
To register contact Elizabeth Fisher ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 1st May. More info at: http://lms.ac.uk/sites/lms.ac.uk/files/Events/De%20Morgan%20Day%20A4%201.pdf .This is a joint meeting of the London Mathematical Society and the British Society for the History of Mathematics.
2. 23rd May ‘Symmetry and Groups’, Birkbeck College, London
We are adding a spring meeting at Birkbeck to the BSHM calendar.
The first of these will be a one-day BSHM conference on the history of symmetry and groups, supported by the Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics at Birkbeck. The aim of the day is to look at the history of symmetry and its study through group theory. Speakers are: Sarah Hart, Peter Neumann, Norman Biggs, Mark Ronan, Rob Curtis and Siobhan Roberts.
Registration will be £5 for students, £10 for BSHM members and Birkbeck staff, and £20 for non-members. See http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/events.html for further details and how to register.
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