American Mathematical Society

Saturday, October 12, 2013, 1:30 pm EDT

All talks are held in 306 Tuttleman Learning Center (13th St. & Montgomery Avenue), Temple University


Saturday October 12, 2013, 8:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

8:30 a.m. David Lindsay Roberts, Prince George’s Community College

The role of psychology in mid 20th century reform in American mathematics education

9:00 a.m. Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, National Museum of Amer. History, Smithsonian Inst.

Mathematical recreations and machines—Nim, tic-tac-toe, and the advent of the digital computer

9:30 a.m. Walter J. Meyer, Adelphi University

The Cajori Two Project: Initial results

10:00 a.m. Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College, City University of New York

The history of Chinese mathematics in America

10:30 a.m. Stephanie Dick, Harvard University

Reproving Principia: Automated Theorem Proving and the materials of mathematics


Saturday October 12, 2013, 2:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

2:00 p.m. Karen V. H. Parshall, University of Virginia

Mathematics and the politics of race: The case of William Claytor (Ph.D., UPenn, 1933)

2:30 p.m. Della Dumbaugh, University of Richmond

Sustaining the community: Publications and public spaces

3:00 p.m. Patti W Hunter, Westmont College

Funding science in the cold war: Persuading the Ford foundation

3:30 p.m. Deborah A. Kent, Drake University

The Analyst: Mathematical publishing “on the boarders of civilization,” 1873-1883

4:00 p.m. Steve Batterson, Emory University

American mathematics 1890 to 1913: From approximate nullity to the verge of parity with Europe


Sunday October 13, 2013, 8:30 a.m.-l0:30 a.m.

8:30 a.m. Alan Tucker, Stony Brook University

The history of the undergraduate program in mathematics in the United States

9:00 a.m. Brittany Shields, University of Pennsylvania

Mathematics and cultural exchange: New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences’ participation in international conferences and visits

9:30 a.m. Charlotte K. Simmons, University of Central Oklahoma

Göttingen is here

10:00 a.m. Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, University of Maryland University College

American innovation in mathematical instruments

10:30 a.m. Florence Fasanelli, AAAS

The mathematics that informed Marcel Duchamp

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Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri. 1555 second edition, with manuscript notes and corrections in the author's hand. Image courtesy of the University of Toronto.