ICHM: Celebration of honours recently awarded to historians of mathematics

The International Commission on the History of Mathematics are holding a meeting to celebrate honours recently awarded to historians of mathematics. A book of abstracts can be found here: www.bshm.ac.uk/sites/default/files/international_commission_on_the_history_of_mathematicsmeetin_0.pdf, and you can register for the meeting here: www.bshm.ac.uk/registration-ichm-meeting-celebrate-recent-honours.

This event is followed by the annual Research in Progress meeting of the BSHM on 7 March, also in Oxford: find out more here: www.bshm.ac.uk/events/ichm-celebration-honours-recently-awarded-historians-mathematics

Programme

14:00-14:45 Ursula Martin (University of Oxford) – DBE 2025
Hidden figures: the women who made Oxford computing

14:45-15:30 Henning Heller (University of Bonn) – ICHM Montucla Prize 2025
Mellen Woodman Haskell (1863–1948): An American mathematics student of the Wanderlust generation

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-16:45 David E. Rowe (University of Mainz)
What Riemann learned from Gauss: When and How

16:45-17:30 Jan Hogendijk (University of Utrecht)
Applied mathematics in Ottoman Palestine: The treatise by Taqi al-Din on sundials

17:30-18:30 Drinks reception