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SUMMARY:BSHM Research in Progress 2026
DESCRIPTION:An annual meeting of the British Society for the History of Mathematics\, at which research students present their work in progress. \n\n\n\n\nResearch in Progress is an annual meeting of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. It provides an opportunity for research students in any area of the history of mathematics to present their work to a friendly and supportive audience. Alongside the student speakers there will be a selection of posters on display throughout the day. \nProgramme \n10.30 Arrival \n10.50 BSHM Welcome \n11.00 Rui Yuan (Sphere/Université Paris Cité)\, From Philology to Mathematics: What are the relationships between the marks and annotations borne by the earliest extant manuscript of the Chinese mathematical treatise Sea Mirror of the Circle Measurements and the late 18th-century editions of the work? \n11.30 Emma Baxter (University of Oxford)\, Anxiety and Crisis in Late Imperial Russian and Early Soviet Mathematics\, 1900-35 \n12.00 Petra Stanković (University of Oxford)\, The Kazan Context of the Petrov Classification \n12.30 Elinor Flavell (Open University)\, A Whistle-Stop Tour of the First 159 Days of my PhD. \n12.45 Stephen Dorman (Open University)\, Undergraduate Essay Prizewinner\, Mollie Orshansky and the Moral Arithmetic of Poverty \n13.00 Lunch (provided) \n14.00 Megan Briers (MPIWG/TU Berlin)\, Gender\, Observers’ Bodies and Nineteenth-Century Measurements of the Distance to the Sun \n14.30 Thomas Glasman (University of Oxford)\, Private Correspondence and Public Writing on the Paradoxes of Set Theory \n15.00 Ties van Gemert (Tilburg University)\, Gerrit Mannoury (1867-1956) on the Politics of Mathematical Logic \n15.30 Shaivi Darsi (Queen Mary University of London)\, Undergraduate Essay Runner Up\, From Dice to Derivatives: How 17th-century Gambling Shaped Modern Financial Mathematics \n15.45 Refreshment Break \n16.15 Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (University of Copenhagen)\, John Fauvel Invited Lecture\, A Problem-Oriented Multiple Perspective Approach to History of Mathematics Illustrated by Examples from the 20th century: How can it full “lacunas”? \n17.15 Close of Meeting \nPosters \nPablo Gómez Samper (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)\, Paolo Bonasoni’s Algebra Geometrica (c.1580s\, MS. 314 Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna). \nMaría de Lourdes Ortega Méndez (Johannes Gutenburg-University Mainz)\, Abstraction and Material Aids in the History of Mathematics: Mechanical Harmonic Analyzers (1890-1925). \nLukas Schievelbusch (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)\, The Expansion and Differentiation of the Mathematical Community in the Cold War US (1945-1991)\, measured by earned PhDs. \nTicketing \nIf you would like to register and pay online\, please use this page to do so. If you would prefer to pay the registration fee by cash or cheque on the day of the meeting\, please contact the meetings co-ordinator at brigitte.stenhouse@bshm.ac.uk to register your intention to attend (for catering purposes). \nRegistration fees include lunch and refreshments. If you have any special dietary requirements\, please specify them when booking. \nIf you would like to take advantage of the BSHM Member pricing\, membership starts from just £18 a year and can be purchased via the BSHM website. \n£5 – £36
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LOCATION:Queens College\, High St\, Oxford\, OX1 4AW\, United Kingdom
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