| Please contact michael.molinsky@maine.edu with any corrections or additions to this calendar of international history and philosophy of mathematics events. You can browse the entire calendar below or pull up the shortcut menu to search the calendar by month. | |
| September 2008 | |
September 12-13 |
The Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America will sponsor a conference on "The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine" in Madison, Wisconsin. The conference will include a session on "Mathematics: Code and Text." |
September 18 |
The Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics will meet at Villanova University in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This seminar will be presented by Patricia Kenschaft on Minority Mathematicians. |
September 27 |
The British Society for the History of Mathematics will hold its Autumn Meeting and AGM at King Edward’s School in Birmingham. |
| October 2008 | |
October 1 |
Deadline for submissions to the Fall edition of the Bulletin. Click here for more details. |
October 3-4 |
The Midwest History Mathematics Conference will take place in the Reinhart Center of Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. The keynote speaker will be Chris Christensen from Northern Kentucky University, who will present the talk The Theorem that Won the War, on the work of Polish, British and American mathematicians whose work culminated in the breaking of the Nazi Enigma Code. The deadline for registration and abstract submission is August 15, 2008. |
October 4-5 |
The American Mathematical Society will hold its Fall Western Section Meeting at the University of British Columbia and the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Vancouver, British Columbia. The meeting will include a special session on the history and philosophy of mathematics. |
October 11-12 |
The American Mathematical Society will hold its Fall Eastern Section Meeting at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. The meeting will include a special session on the history of mathematics. |
October 16 |
The Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics will meet at Villanova University in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This seminar will be presented by Steven Weintraub on Cayley Documents in Lehigh's Possession. |
| November 2008 | |
November 6-9 |
The History of Science Society will hold its Annual Meeting (together with the Philosophy of Science Association) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The preliminary program includes sessions on "Mathematical Languages" and "Studies in the Internalization of Mathematics: Goals, Strategies, and the Outcomes in 19th and 20th Centuries." |
November 28 |
The British Society for the History of Mathematics will hold its Annual Joint BSHM / Gresham College Lecture at Gresham College in London. The lecture will be presented by Jim Bennett on Mathematics and the Medici: Instruments from Late Renaissance Florence and a British Connection. |
| December 2008 | |
December 6-8 |
The Canadian Mathematical Society's Winter Meeting will take place at the Marriott Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario. The meeting will include a session on the history and philosophy of mathematics. |
December 15 |
The British Society for the History of Mathematics will meet at the University of Greenwich. The meeting, "Maths in View", will look at the portrayal of History of Mathematics in film and television. |
January 5-8 |
The MAA-AMS Joint Mathematics Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C.. Activities involving the history and philosophy of mathematics include:
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| April 2009 | |
April 1 |
Deadline for submissions to the Spring edition of the Bulletin. Click here for more details. |
| May 2009 | |
| June 2009 | |
June 6-8 |
The CSHPM Annual Meeting will be held conjunction with the Canadian Mathematical Society at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland. |