Midwest History of Mathematics Conference

Schedule

Friday, October 13

12:00 Registration opens

1:30-1:50
	A: Hardy - Ramanujan Collaboration - An ideal case of co-existence.
		Prem N. Bajaj, Wichita State University
	
	B: On building a table of common logarithms
		Daniel E. Otero, Xavier University

2:00-2:20
	A: Women, mathematics and the public in 18th-century England
		Shelley Costa, Cornell University

	B: Comments about a historic page of Galileo's workbook.
		Alexander J. Hahn, University of Notre Dame

2:30-2:50
	A: Anna Louisa (MacKinnon) Fitch, Ph.D, Cornell 1894
		Gary G. Cochell, Culver-Stockton College & Cornell 	
		University
	B: The tenure of Mathematical Émigrés at Selected Universities in the 
Midwest during the 1930s and 40s.
		Richard M. Davitt, University of Louisville

3:00-3:20 BREAK

3:30-3:50
	A: Mary Frances Winston in Goettingen 1893-1896
		Betsey S. Whitman, Framingham State College

	B: Euler's Solutio quarundam quaestionum difficiliorum in calculo
 probabilium.
		Dick Pulskamp, Xavier University

4:00-4:20 
	A: Was al-Khwarizmi an applied algebraist?
		Jeffrey A. Oaks, University of Indianapolis
	
	B: The Western Literary Institute and 19th Century Mathematics Education
		David E. Kullman, Miami University

4:30-4:50
	A: Archimedes and His Determination of the Centers of Gravity of Parabolic 
Segments and Parabolic Strips.
		Michael H. Millar, University of Northern Iowa

	B: A Numbered Icosahedron from India: Mystery & Meaning
		Paul Bien, Fairfield, Iowa 

5:00-5:20
	A: Newtonian deductions and lunar precession
		Pierre J. Boulos, University of Windsor

	B: Challenges to Science in the Revolutionary Era, 1905-1921: The Experience
of the Moscow Mathematical Society.
		Paul Buckingham, University of Saint Francis

	

6:30	Dinner

7:30 Invited Address: 
		
Essential Astrology for Historians of Mathematics
		Kim Plofker, Brown University


Saturday, October 14

8:30-8:50
	A: Towards axiomatic foundations of mathematics - the evolution of 
Dedekind's treatment of numbers.
		Dirk Schlimm, Carnegie Mellon University

	B: The English Calculatores: Who were the English Calculatores and what 
were their contributions to mathematics?
		Sharon OšDonnell, Chicago State University

9:00-9:20
	A: Russell's Revolt Against English Logic
		Thomas Drucker, University of Wisconsin

	B: Pascal's Contributions
		Paula I Graham, University of Central Arkansas

9:30-9:50
	A: Karl Menger and his Mathematical Colloquium: From Vienna to the 
United States.
		Louise Golland, The University of Chicago

	B: The Bard, the Laird and the Lender: Mathematical Themes in 
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."
		Michael Wodzak , William Woods University and
the University of Missouri (Columbia)

10:00-10:20
	A: The Emergence of Regularization Theory
		Charles Groetsch, University of Cincinnati

	B: In The Footsteps Of Algebraic Geometry
		Shreeram S. Abhyankar and Yvonne M. Abhyankar, Purdue 
University

10:30-11:00 BREAK

11:00-11:20
	A: A Contribution to Midwest Math History: The New Math
		Charles Jones, Ball State University

	B: An Introduction to the Geometriae Pars Universalis
		Andrew Leahy, Knox College

11:30-11:50
	A: Berkeley's Mathematical Objections To Newtonšs Infinitesimal Calculus: 
An Alternative Approach
		Sandra Visokolskis, University of Cordoba

	B: The genesis of Eudoxus's infinity lemma and proportion theory
		Lászlö Filep , College of Nyíregyháza