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List members may be interested in the following Workshop: *Mathematics and Mathematization of Physical Theory: Historical and Conceptual Aspects* Zeit: Fr, 22 June - Sa 23 June 2018 Ort: Hilbertraum (05-432) Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Institut für Mathematik, Staudinger Weg 9, 55099 Mainz Details: www.geschichte.mathematik.uni-mainz.de/workshop-mathematization/ Attendance is free and interested participants are welcome! Best regards, Tilman Sauer ***** PROGRAM ***** Friday, June 22: 10:15-10:30 *Johannes Lenhard* (Bielefeld): "The Tumultuous 1890s: Anti-Mathematicians and the Mathematization of Engineering" 11:30-11:45 Coffee 11:45-13:00 *Scott Walter* (Nantes): "Van der Pol and the Van der Pol Equation" 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:45 *Tim Räz* (Bern): "Euler's Königsberg: The Explanatory Power of Mathematics" 15:45-16:15 Coffee 16:15-17:45 *Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen* (Copenhagen) and *Andrea Loettgers* (Bern): "Nicolas Rashesky and Alfred Lotka: Different modelling strategies in the beginning of mathematical biology in the early 20th century" 17:30-18:45 *Michael Friedman* (Berlin): “On “folded” curves and folded surfaces: (attempts of) visualisation of the Weierstraß function" Saturday, June 23: 8:45-10:00 *Tilman Sauer* (Mainz): "How to Interpret Non-Riemannian Geometry" 10:00-10:30 Coffee 10:30-11:45 *Marta Jordi Taltavull* (Mainz) "From a physical model to a mathematical tool: the resonance model in optics from ether theories to quantum mechanics" 11:45-13:00 *Arianna Borelli* (Berlin): "The Born-Wiener paper on quantum theory (1926): operators between physics, mathematics and electrical engineering" -- Prof. Tilman Sauer History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Institute of Mathematics Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Staudinger Weg 9 D-55099 Mainz Tel: +49-6131-39-22837 /-23706 (secretary) Fax: +49-6131-39-20915 Email: [log in to unmask] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MERSENNE list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MERSENNE&A=1