The history of mathematics comprises a multitude of vibrant and diverse areas, involving the intersection of mathematical research with historical scholarship, and often incorporating ideas from philosophy, epistemology, language, literature, and the arts. In recent years, it has also been recognised as having particular utility in mathematics education, at all levels.
This four-month programme brings together mathematicians and other scholars working in the history of mathematics. At the heart of the programme is a theme of “diversity of people, context and content”: looking beyond the “big names” to the broader communities of people who have been engaged in mathematical research; considering mathematical contexts beyond academia, such as government and industry; and investigating mathematical innovation and impact beyond mathematics itself. Key themes will include 20th century developments in algebra (e.g., the history of the classification of finite simple groups) and in dynamical systems (e.g., topological dynamics), and the contribution of mathematics to developments in computer and data science taking into account the circulation of ideas in understudied communities such as those in Eastern Europe and China.
In addition to the two main workshops, there will be informal workshops exploring new methods in history of mathematics in different cultural settings. Added to which the archives in Cambridge, as well as in Oxford and London, will provide opportunities for sustained archival research in some of the world’s richest mathematical collections.
The aim of the programme is to broaden, deepen and accelerate current research, enable new perspectives and collaborations among participants and beyond, and stimulate new research, outreach, and impact, especially through unexpected synergies and insights emerging within and across our key themes.
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The Institute kindly requests that any papers published as a result of this programme’s activities are credited as such. Please acknowledge the support of the Institute in your paper using the following text:
The author(s) would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support and hospitality during the programme Modern History of Mathematics, where work on this paper was undertaken. This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/Z000580/1.
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| Title | Year | Programme | Publication Date |
|---|---|---|---|
Effect of Ramped Temperature and Convection on Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer of a Chemically Reacting and Heat Absorbing Fluid Past a Vertical PlateAuthors: Soluade Joseph Aroloye |
2024 | MHM | 22 October 2025 |
Analysis of Heat and Mass Transfer of Second Grade Fluid Flow with Effects of Hall Current, Viscous Dissipation and Che mical ReactionAuthors: Soluade Joseph Aroloye |
2024 | MHM | 22 October 2025 |
On the Invisibility and Impact of Robert Hooke’s Theory of GravitationAuthors: Niccolo' Guicciardini |
2024 | MHM | 22 October 2025 |
La naissance de la m\'ecanique analytique dans le r\'eseau \'epistolaire de Pierre Varignon (1690-1710) : nouvelles pistes de recherche} \titlerunning{La m\'ecanique analytique dans le r\'eseau \'epistolaire de Pierre VarignoAuthors: Niccolo' Guicciardini |
2024 | MHM | 22 October 2025 |
ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE VARIATION IN HYDROMAGNETIZED FLOW IN THE PRESENCE OF JOULE HEATING, VISCOUS DISSIPATION, AND THERMAL RADIATIONAuthors: Soluade Joseph Aroloye |
2024 | MHM | 22 October 2025 |
The Development of Fuzzy Algebra And Its Applications: A Chronological PerspectiveAuthors: Mike Ogiugo |
2024 | MHM | 28 April 2025 |
20 January 2025 to 24 January 2025
4 February 2025 to 5 February 2025
28 April 2025 to 2 May 2025
| Friday 10th January 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Karen Parshall University of Virginia |
Room 2 | |
| Tuesday 14th January 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Della Dumbaugh University of Richmond |
Room 2 | |
| Friday 17th January 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Caroline Ehrhardt Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis |
Room 2 | |
| Tuesday 28th January 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Sandy Zabell Northwestern University |
Room 2 | |
| Wednesday 29th January 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00 to 16:30 |
David Waszek École Normale Supérieure ; Jan Vrhovski University of Edinburgh |
Room 1 | |
| Monday 17th February 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:15 to 16:30 | Room 1 | ||
| Wednesday 19th February 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 to 16:00 |
Rebecca Waldecker Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg ; Volker Remmert Bergische Universität Wuppertal |
Room 2 | |
| Thursday 20th February 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 11:00 |
Isobel Falconer University of St Andrews |
Room 2 | |
| Monday 24th February 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 11:00 |
Timothy Hosgood Topos Institute |
Room 1 | |
| Tuesday 25th February 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 11:00 |
Mireia Martínez i Sellarès Universiteit Utrecht |
Room 2 | |
| 15:00 to 16:30 | Room 1 | ||
| Wednesday 26th February 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 to 12:00 | Room 1 | ||
| 13:30 to 15:30 |
Jeremy Gray University of Warwick; The Open University |
Room 2 | |
| 15:30 to 17:00 | Room 1 | ||
| Thursday 27th February 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 11:00 |
Jesper Lützen University of Copenhagen |
Room 2 | |
| 11:40 to 13:30 | Room 1 | ||
| Friday 28th February 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:30 to 18:00 | Room 1 | ||
| 15:00 to 16:30 |
Jeremy Gray University of Warwick; The Open University |
Room 2 | |
| Monday 3rd March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 11:00 |
Mark Gross University of Cambridge |
Room 2 | |
| 11:30 to 13:00 |
Elena Scalambro Università degli Studi di Torino |
Room 2 | |
| Tuesday 4th March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 to 14:45 |
J.P. Ascher University of Edinburgh |
Room 1 | |
| 15:00 to 15:45 |
Michael Barany University of Edinburgh |
Room 1 | |
| 16:15 to 17:00 | Room 1 | ||
| Wednesday 5th March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 to 09:30 |
Rebecca Waldecker Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg |
Room 1 | |
| 09:00 to 17:00 | IT Suite [ARCHIVE] | ||
| 09:30 to 10:00 |
Lukas Schievelbusch Bergische Universität Wuppertal |
Room 1 | |
| 10:15 to 11:00 |
Volker Remmert Bergische Universität Wuppertal |
Room 1 | |
| 11:15 to 12:00 |
David E Rowe Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Room 1 | |
| 14:00 to 14:45 |
Norbert Schappacher University of Strasbourg |
Room 1 | |
| 15:15 to 16:00 |
Christophe Eckes Université Nancy 1 |
Room 1 | |
| Friday 7th March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 11:00 |
David E Rowe Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Room 2 | |
| Monday 10th March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 to 12:30 |
Rebecca Waldecker Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg |
Room 1 | |
| Tuesday 11th March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 17:30 to 18:40 | Centre for Mathematical Sciences | ||
| 19:30 to 20:40 | Centre for Mathematical Sciences | ||
| Wednesday 19th March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 17:00 to 18:30 | Room 1 | ||
| Monday 24th March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:00 to 17:30 |
Karine Chemla University of Edinburgh; Université Paris Cité |
Room 2 | |
| Tuesday 25th March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 to 14:30 |
Liesbeth De Mol CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université de Lille ; Michael Friedman University of Bonn |
Room 2 | |
| Wednesday 26th March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 16:30 |
Liesbeth De Mol CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université de Lille ; Michael Friedman University of Bonn |
Room 2 | |
| Thursday 27th March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:00 to 17:00 |
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze University of Agder |
Room 1 | |
| Friday 28th March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:00 to 17:30 |
A conversation on the future of the history of computing and beyond |
Room 2 | |
| Saturday 29th March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 to 18:00 | External | ||
| Monday 31st March 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:00 to 17:00 |
Deborah Kent University of St Andrews ; Jemma Lorenat Pitzer College |
Room 2 | |
| Tuesday 1st April 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 11:00 |
Alex Aylward University of Oxford ; Amira Moeding University of Cambridge ; Brigitte Stenhouse The Open University ; Erica Meszaros Brown University ; Maurice Chiodo University of Cambridge ; Nicolas Michel Isaac Newton Institute; University of Cambridge |
Room 2 | |
| Wednesday 9th April 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00 to 16:30 |
Igor Podlubny Technical University of Kosice |
Room 2 | |
| Tuesday 15th April 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:15 to 09:30 |
Pop-up Meeting on Provincializing Modern Mathematics - Welcome |
Room 1 | |
| 09:30 to 11:00 | Room 1 | ||
| 11:15 to 12:15 | Room 1 | ||
| 13:30 to 15:00 | Room 1 | ||
| 15:30 to 17:00 | Room 2 | ||
| Wednesday 16th April 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 to 10:30 | Room 1 | ||
| 10:45 to 12:15 | Room 1 | ||
| 13:30 to 15:00 | Room 1 | ||
| 15:30 to 17:00 | Room 1 | ||
| Friday 25th April 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00 to 16:30 |
Christopher Hollings University of Oxford |
Room 2 | |
| Wednesday 30th April 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 to 16:00 |
Frida Trotter Springer |
Room 2 | |
| Thursday 12th March 2026 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:00 to 17:00 |
Clemency Montelle University of Canterbury, NZ |
Room 1 | |
| Monday 16th March 2026 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00 to 16:00 |
Clemency Montelle University of Canterbury, NZ |
Room 1 | |
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