Monday 22 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Struggle for Algebra: English mathematics around 1660
  Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
  What do historians of mathematics do?

Saturday 23 September 2023 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Day 2: NEWTON GENEVA EDITION - International Symposium 2023
  This event is in-person only
  David Wootton (University of York), Flavia Marcacci (Pontifical Lateran University), Philip Beeley (University of Oxford), Sarah Hutton (Honorary Visiting Professor, University of York), Chris G Lewin (Institute and Faculty of Actuaries), Scott Mandelbrote (Peterhouse, Cambridge), Chairs: Philip Beeley, Paolo Bussotti, Jo Ashbourn, Raffaele Pisano, Rob Iliffe
  2023 International Symposium: Newton Geneva Edition

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Full Satisfaction: Early Modern Science and Patronage Revisited
  Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘A Fresh Look at Leibniz’s mathesis universalis’.
  David Rabouin (CNRS, Paris)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The controversy between Gregory and Huygens on the quadrature of the circle
  Davide Crippa (Academy of Sciences, Prague)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Reforming Mathematical Physics in Renaissance Paris’
  Richard Oosterhoff (University of Cambridge)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - British orientalism and the exactitude of Indian sciences
  Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Success, failure and change in Georgian mathematics’
  Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - M.G. Agnesi (1718–1799): The first Italian woman to write a treatise of calculus
  Clara Silvia Roero (University of Turin)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Communicating Longitude after Harrison: the Board of Longitude in the late eighteenth century
  Rebekah Higgitt (University of Kent)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - "Black strokes upon white paper": changing attitudes towards symbolic algebra from the 19th into the 20th century
  Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Justification of axioms: a neglected topic in the history of mathematics?
  Ralph Krömer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Gauss’s diary, Riemann’s Hypothesis, and Klein’s letters: the central archive for mathematics bequests in Göttingen
  Katharina Habermann (Universität Göttingen)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Insights into the long “genesis” of Dedekind’s lattice theory
  Emmylou Haffner (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Speaking, reading, writing and printing numbers in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England
  Natasha Glaisyer (University of York)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Forms of proofs for algebraic equations in medieval China
  Karin Chemla (CNRS)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Geometry and mathematics for the technical and visual arts at the turn of the sixteenth century
  Matthew Landrus (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Reading mathematics in the eighteenth century: Montesquieu and young d’Alembert
  Jeanne Peiffer (Centre Alexandre Koyré)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:00 - Non-Euclidean geometry and the historian of mathematics
  Prof Jeremy Gray (The Open University)
  Perspectives on Euclid and Geometry

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:00 - A Mathematician Reads Euclid
  Dr Vicky Neale (University of Oxford)
  Perspectives on Euclid and Geometry

Wednesday 20 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:00 - The Body Beautiful: Euclid and Geometrical Solids in Renaissance Europe
  Dr Stephen Johnston (University of Oxford )
  Perspectives on Euclid and Geometry

Wednesday 27 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:00 - Geometry in Modern and Contemporary Art
  Dr Lynn Gamwell (School of Visual Arts, New York)
  Perspectives on Euclid and Geometry

Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Mathematicians on board: introducing lunar distances to life at sea
  Jim Bennett (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Vitruvius in seventeenth-century Oxford: notes on the manuscript of the first English translation of the De architectura by Christopher Wase (1625–1690)
  Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “The instrument that excited the keenest interest”: Olaus Henrici’s harmonic analyser
  June Barrow-Green (The Open University)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Understanding the differential in Mary Somerville’s Theory of Differences
  Brigitte Stenhouse (The Open University)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - On the history of linear algebra: the emergence of a global discipline from local mathematical cultures
  Frédéric Brechenmacher (École polytechnique)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Bartel L. Van der Waerden: algebraic geometry, physics, statistics, and the ancient history of science
  Norbert Schappacher (Université de Strasbourg)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Inventing accuracy in Giovanni Domenico Cassini’s Paris Observatory: an analysis of a sample of letters (1667–1712)
  Dalia Deias (Centre Alexandre Koyré)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Second Quantification of Physics, c. 1830–1900
  Daniel Mitchell (RWTH Aachen University)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Study day ‘Reading the Classics of Science: historical and anthropological perspectives’
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘When was cosmology? The curious history of a disciplinary category, c.1600–c.1730’
  Adam Mosley (Swansea University)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Unity and diversity of practical geometry in sixteenth-century France’
  Angela Axworthy (MPIWG Berlin)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘To G or not to G: J H Poynting and the gravitational constant in the nineteenth century’
  Isobel Falconer (University of St Andrews)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Proposals to move the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1836–1945’
  Lee Macdonald (History of Science Museum, Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Mastering the Mint: Isaac Newton’s economic and numismatic work’
  Alice Marples (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘How general relativity resonated with differential geometers’
  Tilman Sauer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The “Galilean Sect”: Talented mathematicians, devoted disciples’
  Lucia Bucciarelli (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The puzzle of Brahmagupta’s quadrilaterals: Hankel’s reading of Colebrooke’
  Ivahn Smadja (University of Nantes)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences