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Name: Yelda Nasifoglu
University of Oxford
Events this person is speaking at:
Tuesday 15 May 2018
Euclid's Elements of Geometry in Early Modern Britain
Date: 15 May 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture room L3
Organiser:
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
Host:
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 22 January 2019
Vitruvius in seventeenth-century Oxford: notes on the manuscript of the first English translation of the De architectura by Christopher Wase (1625–1690)
Date: 22 January 2019, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Friday 10 July 2020
'Writing Technology/The Technology of Writing' Workshop: 'Gestures of Nature'
Date: 10 July 2020, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
s:
Viktoria von Hoffmann (Fund for Scientific Research, F.R.S.-FNRS / University of Liège),
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Michael Drolet (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online with Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS/MFO),
Jenny Oliver (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is organising:
Wednesday 17 January 2018
"Black strokes upon white paper": changing attitudes towards symbolic algebra from the 19th into the 20th century
Date: 17 January 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Justification of axioms: a neglected topic in the history of mathematics?
Date: 24 January 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Ralph Krömer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Gauss’s diary, Riemann’s Hypothesis, and Klein’s letters: the central archive for mathematics bequests in Göttingen
Date: 31 January 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Katharina Habermann (Universität Göttingen)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 7 February 2018
Insights into the long “genesis” of Dedekind’s lattice theory
Date: 7 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Emmylou Haffner (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 14 February 2018
Speaking, reading, writing and printing numbers in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England
Date: 14 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Natasha Glaisyer (University of York)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 21 February 2018
Forms of proofs for algebraic equations in medieval China
Date: 21 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Karin Chemla (CNRS)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 28 February 2018
Geometry and mathematics for the technical and visual arts at the turn of the sixteenth century
Date: 28 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Matthew Landrus (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 7 March 2018
Reading mathematics in the eighteenth century: Montesquieu and young d’Alembert
Date: 7 March 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Jeanne Peiffer (Centre Alexandre Koyré)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 6 June 2018
Non-Euclidean geometry and the historian of mathematics
Date: 6 June 2018, 19:00 - 20:00
Speaker
:
Prof Jeremy Gray (The Open University)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 3 (lower floor)
Organisers:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 13 June 2018
A Mathematician Reads Euclid
Date: 13 June 2018, 19:00 - 20:00
Speaker
:
Dr Vicky Neale (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 3 (lower floor)
Organisers:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 20 June 2018
The Body Beautiful: Euclid and Geometrical Solids in Renaissance Europe
Date: 20 June 2018, 19:00 - 20:00
Speaker
:
Dr Stephen Johnston (University of Oxford )
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 3 (lower floor)
Organisers:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 27 June 2018
Geometry in Modern and Contemporary Art
Date: 27 June 2018, 19:00 - 20:00
Speaker
:
Dr Lynn Gamwell (School of Visual Arts, New York)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 3 (lower floor)
Organisers:
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 3 June 2019
Study day ‘Reading the Classics of Science: historical and anthropological perspectives’
Date: 3 June 2019, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers:
Christine Proust (, CNRS/SPHERE),
Agathe Keller (CNRS/SPHERE),
Sally Humphreys (University of Michigan),
Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHERE),
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford),
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
