Annual International Workshop

History of Mathematics in the Last 25 Years

New Departures, New Questions, New Ideas

May 14-17, 2001

Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem

Invited Speakers


David Rowe, Universität Mainz (currently at the Dibner Institute) (drowe@dibinst.mit.edu): 
"Mathematical Productivity as an Expression of Oral and Written Culture: the Case of Göttingen"

Ivo Schneider, Universität der Bundeswehr, Munchen (Ivo.Schneider@UniBw-Muenchen.de):  
"A question of style: The background of Descartes'claim to the creation of a new mathematics."

Ian Mueller, University of Chicago (i-mueller@uchicago.edu): 
"A minimalist Interpretation of Plato's Account of Arithmetic and Geometry in the Republic."

Marinus Taisback, Denmark (marinus@private.dk):
"If Euclid ever wrote the Data, he neither  invented it nor finished it. Must we?"

Eric Brian, EHESS - Paris (brian@ehess.fr):
"Mathematics and all that. Integrals, Series, Approximations around 1780"

Orna Harari-Eshel, Tel Aviv University (oharari-eshel@dibinst.mit.edu):
"Syllogistic logic and greek mathematical reasoning: a reassessment of the relationship between Aristotle's posterior analytics and Euclid's Elements"

José Ferreirós, Universidad de Sevilla (jmferre@cica.es ):
"The emergence of the set-theoretical approach in mathematics"

Vassilis  Karasmanis, National Technological University, Athens (vasmar@hol.gr):
"The method of Hippocrates of Chios"

Alain Bernard, Paris  ( alainguy.bernard@wanadoo.fr):
"Analysis and sophistics in Pappus's 'Collectio Mathematica"

Jeremy Gray, Open University - Milton Meynes (j.j.gray@open.ac.uk):
"Anxiety and Abstraction in 19th Century  Mathematics"

Annette Imhausen, Universität Mainz (currently at the Dibner Institute) (aimhausen@dibinst.mit.edu):
"Egyptian Mathematical texts in their Contexts"

Ruth Glasner, Hebrew University (ruthg@math.huji.ac.il):
"From Physics VI to VII: A turning point in the application of mathematics to physics"

Erhard Scholz, Universität Wuppertal (scholz@wmdi2.math.uni-wuppertal.de):
"H. Weyl's treatment of the problem of space and the origin of gauge  structures"

Moritz Epple, Universität Bonn (Epple@math.uni-bonn.de):
"The importance of local traditions: The making of modern knot theory in Vienna and Princeton during the 1920's. "

Hans-Joachim Waschkies, Universität Kiel (gz@philsem.uni-kiel.de):
"Operative foundations and deductive proofs in Greek arithmetic"

Tzvi Langermann, Bar Ilan University ( ytl@mail.biu.ac.il):
"Pythagorean Texts and Traditions in Hebrew and Arabic. "

Karine Chemla, CNRS (chemla@paris7.jussieu.fr):
"The practice of mathematics in ancient China: problems and algorithms, computing devices and figures, proofs and related philosophical interests"

Michael Fried  (mfried@ramat-negev.org.il):
"The Use of Analogy in Book VII of Apollonius"

Shaul Katz, the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem:
"A Pinch of Goettingen in Jerusalem:  Landau, Fraenkel, and the Einstein Institute of Mathematics "

Ido Yavetz, Tel Aviv University (yavetz@post.tau.ac.il):
" On Euduxus and Greek Astronomy"