15th Novembertagung on the History of Mathematics

15. Novembertagung zur Geschichte der Mathematik

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Donnerstag / Thursday, 25.11.2004

 

15:30 Fachbereichskolloquium des Instituts / Staff colloquium of the institute
    (offiziell nicht Teil der Tagung / not officially part of the conference)
    W. Scharlau (Münster): The Life of Alexander Grothendieck
18:30 Vorabendtreffen / Meeting night
    café Stairway to Heaven

Freitag / Friday, 26.11.2004

 

9:15 Eröffnung und Einführung / Opening and Introduction

 

9:45 Prof. Dr. H.J.M. Bos
    Comments on reconstruction based on an example: Stevin's attempt to clarify the notion of equation by an analogy to the 'rule of three'

 

10.45 Kaffee/ coffee

 

11:00 Diskussion über das Tagungsthema Rekonstruktionen / Discussion on the conference's theme: Reconstructions

 

11:45 Ilana Wartenberg
    Epistle of the Number: an Episode of Algebra in Hebrew (Sicily, 14th Century)

 

12:30 Mittagessen / Lunch

 

Ausflug / excursion

 

15:15 Gabriele Wickel
    Feldvermessung in England im 17.Jh.

 

16:00 Tina Su Lyn Lim
    The Zhangjiashan Calendar

 

16:45 kurze Pause / short break

 

17:00 Wijnand Rekers
    Mathematics in Delft

 

17:45 Henrik Kragh Sørensen
    Professionalization of mathematics in Scandinavia

Samstag / Saturday, 27.11.2004

 

09:15 Harald Gropp
    The reconstruction of a number and its history: some aspects of pi

 

10:00 Martina Schneider
    Pragmatism prevails over 'nostrification': van der Waerden's work on spinors

 

10:45 Coffee / Kaffee

 

11:00 Maarten Bullynck
    Lemmata

 

11:45 Frédéric Brechenmacher
     A history of the Jordan normal form for matrices

 

12:30 Mittagessen / Lunch

 

Ausflug / excursion

 

17:00 Birgit Petri
     Kurt hensel and the creation of p-adic numbers

 

17:45 Sébastien Maronne
    Descartes and the Problema astronomicum

Sonntag / Sunday, 28.11.2003

 

9:30 Silvia Harmsen
    Muqarnas, Construction and Reconstruction

 

10:15 Steven Wepster
    Tobias Mayer's use of conflicting data

 

11:00 Kaffee / coffee

 

11:15 Diskussion im Plenum / Forum discussion

 

12:00 Ende / Closing

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