• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Philip Beeley (University of Oxford) , Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford) , Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Hilary Term, Tuesdays, 5:00-6:30pm
• Organising department: All Souls College

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 17:00 - Forms of proofs for algebraic equations in medieval China
  Karin Chemla (CNRS)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 17:00 - The Second Quantification of Physics, c. 1830–1900
  Daniel Mitchell (RWTH Aachen University)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

• 17:00 - ‘How general relativity resonated with differential geometers’
  Tilman Sauer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

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

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

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)