• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Variable
• Web Address: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events/list/3153
• Organising department: Mathematical Institute

Friday 16 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Cooperating around a theory: the example of lattice theory in the 1930s
  Simon Decaens (Université Paris Diderot)

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Spinning, stalling, and falling apart
  Tony Royle (The Open University)

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Was James Clerk Maxwell’s mathematics as good as his poetry?
  Mark McCartney (University of Ulster)

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

• 16:00 - Applied mathematics in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars
  Jan Kotůlek (Technical University of Ostrava)

Friday 27 July 2018 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Euler's research on curvature of spatial curves
  Xi Liu (Xi'an/Oxford)
• 14:30 - About the nature of π: Proofs and conjectures in Lambert's Mémoire (1768)
  Eduardo Dorrego López (Seville)
• 15:00 - Meeting under the integral sign? The 1936 Oslo International Congress of Mathematicians
  Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - William Burnside and the Mystery Letter
  Howard Emmens
• 16:30 - How did Chinese deal with a scientific problem: Building the solar eclipse theory in ancient China (the 7th-10th century AD)
  Anjing Qu (Xi'an)

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Formulating a theory - mathematics in Thomson and Rutherford's collaboration on x-ray ionisation
  Isobel Falconer (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 4 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, 1944-1963
  Volker Remmert (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A Beautiful Game from the War: Piet Hein, John Nash, Martin Gardner and Hex
  Ryan Hayward (University of Alberta)

Tuesday 12 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Jacob Bernoulli’s role in the history of elasticity: From a discussion with a craftsman to the discovery of the elasticity rules
  Sepideh Alassi (University of Basel)

Tuesday 25 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - On the circulation structures in traditional Chinese algorithms
  GUO Shirong (Institute for the History of Science and Technology，Inner Mongolia Normal University)

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Re-Engineering History: A Playful Demonstration
  Tom Ritchie (University of Kent)

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Crossing the Pond: European Mathematicians in 1920s America
  Karen Hunger Parshall (University of Virginia)

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Babbage's mechanical notation
  Adrian Johnstone (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Tuesday 28 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Mathematics and Justice in ancient Egypt
  A joint History of Mathematics/Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Annette Imhausen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)