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Tuesday 8 November 2005

The "Novembertagung" is an annual international event, started in 1990, which brings together young philosophers and historians of mathematics.
The conference provides an opportunity to give a presentation in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere and is open to all young researchers. Students who (...)

  

 
November 4, Friday sessions
Morning sessions
Movements in the history od XVIII-XXth century Mathematics sessions 1 & 2
On fluid, yet fundamental, concepts in Abel’s mathematics
"ein blosses Anweisen und Abschreiben" - On mathematical tables in late 18th century Germany
Les doutes de D’Alembert sur le développement des fonctions en séries entières
An unexpected form of Newtonianism in Tobias Mayer’s lunar tables

Afternoon sessions
Movements in the history od XVIII-XXth century Mathematics sessions 3 & 4
P.M.S. Blackett: An epistemic approach to the emergence of Operational Research
The cooperation of Heinrich Behnke (1898-1979) and Henri Cartan (*1904)
Les patrons de l’entre-deux-guerres dans le milieu mathématique français et universitaire
On the identity of a theorem throughout history: a history of the Jordan canonical form (1870-1930)

November 5 saturday sessions
Morning sessions

Afternoon sessions

History of mathematics sessions
History of mathematics session 1 & 2
About congruent numbers, as studied by Guillaume Gosselin, an algebraist in Renaissance France
The Epistle of the Number- a Hisaab treatise on the Medieval Hebrew Bookshelf
Le problème d’oiseaux de Zhang Qiujian à Léonard de Pise : procédés de résolution
Mathematical rapports and proportions in the interpretation of gods and of other spiritual principles of the ancient Egyptian religious philosophy. The case from The Book of Bas, Berlin Papyrus 10477

History of mathematics sessions
History of mathematics session 3 & 4
New planets in the solar system 200 years ago
On proportions of proportions: one aspect of the application of mathematics to music in the seventeenth century
Mathematics in the Jesuit Province of Flandro-Belgica during the Seventeenth Century
The windmills of Simon Stevin

Philosophy of logic sessions
Philosophy of logic sessions 1& 2
Post’s machine
Abstract Tendencies: The Recursive Thought of Alan Turing
A not trivial intersection of logic and geometry: n-opposition theory
The Standard Interpretation of Higher-Order Variables in Modern Logic and the Concept of Arbitrary Function in Mathematics

Philosophy of mathematics session
Philosophy of mathematics sessions 3
Empirical aspects of mathematics
The tacit (human-bounded) part of mathematics. What can be known about it?
How does it happen?

Philosophy of mathematics sessions
Philosophy of mathematics sessions 1 & 2
Hilbert and Wittgenstein on Consistency proofs and infinity
Les mathématiques: tautologies ou propositions ?
When I talk about language I must speak the language of every day
Le propensionnisme: une interprétation métaphysique du calcul des probabilités

November 6 Sunday sessions
History of geometry
History of geometry sessions 1& 2
Clifford’s Curved World: Riemannian geometry and British philosophy in the 1860s
Did János Bolyai define the term “parallela” in the first paragraph of his Appendix at all?
Alicia Boole Stott and four-dimensional geometry
Plücker’s Geometrical Models

History of Mathematics
History of mathematics session 5
Ramanujan - A Mathematical Genius
Kurt Hensel and the creation of p-adic numbers
Van der Waerden and nationalsocialism: a reevaluation
Bieberbach’s solution to the 18th Hilbert problem

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