BSHM Research in Progress 2022

The British Society for the History of Mathematics:promotes and encourages research into the history of mathematics and disseminates the results of that research;develops awareness of the history of mathematics for the public benefit; andsupports teachers and lecturers at all levels of mathematics education to incorporate the history of mathematics into their teaching, enriching their students’ experience.

British Society for the History of Mathematics

Research in Progress is an annual meeting of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.

The Queen's College

Research in Progress is an annual meeting of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. It provides an opportunity for research students in any area of the history of mathematics to present their work to a friendly and supportive audience.If you would like to register and pay online, please use this page to do so. If you would prefer to pay the registration fee by cash or cheque on the day of the meeting, please <a href="http://www.bshm.ac.uk/node/60" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">contact the organisers</a> to register your intention to attend (for catering purposes).Registration fees include lunch and refreshments. If you have any special dietary requirements, please specify them when booking.PROGRAMME09:30–09:45 Registration
09:45–10:00 BSHM Welcome
10:00–10:30 PAUL FELTON (The Open University) The Popularisation of Mathematics in Britain during the 19th Century*
10:30–11:00 BENJAMIN WILCK (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Was Euclid a Platonist Philosopher?
11:00–11:30 KATE HINDLE (University of St Andrews) On the Thirteen Semi-Regular Solids of Archimedes: Investigating D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s Mathematics
11:30–12:00 Refreshment break
12:00–12:30 PETRA BUŠKOVÁ (Masaryk University, Brno) Bernard Bolzano and Paradoxes of the Infinite*
12:30–12:45 ELLEN FLOWER BSHM Undergraduate Essay
Prizewinner 2021. The ‘Analysis’ of a Century: The Influence of Published Works and the Attitudes of their Authors on the Etymological Development of the Word ‘Analysis’ in a Mathematical Context to 1750
12:45–13:00 GEORGE WATERS (London School of Economics and Political Science) BSHM Undergraduate Essay Prizewinner 2021. Exploring the Use of Mathematics to Obtain Consensus
13:00–14:00 Lunch in the Magrath Room
14:00-14:30 ELENA SCALAMBRO (Università degli Studi di Torino) B. Fano's Contributions on Three-Dimensional Varieties through the 'Heritage' Investigation Lens*
14:30–15:00 AOIFE KEARINS (University of Cambridge) ‘Sincere Lovers of and Earnest Inquirers After Truth’: George Gabriel Stokes and the Gifford Lectures
15:00–15:30 DINH-VINH COLOMBAN (University Paris-Nanterre)
Can probability match reality? The Bernoulli–Leibniz Dispute on the Law of Large Numbers
15:30–16:00 Refreshment break
16:00–17:00 JIM BENNETT (Science Museum, London) Invited lecture: Mathematics and Elizabethan Dreams of Empire
17:00 Close of meeting

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