9:00 - 10:00
Leo Corry (Tel-Aviv University):
How useful is the
term 'modernism' for understanding 20th century mathematics?
10:00 - 11:00
[Cancelled] José Ferreirós (Universidad de
Sevilla):
"Endless formalism" or "modern standpoint"? Dedekind vs.
Hilbert and Hurwitz on number theory around 1895
Coffee Break
11.30 - 12:30
Frédéric Brechenmacher (Université
d'Artois, Lens):
On the modernity of the 1930s international theory of
matrices: Practices, networks, circulations, abstraction and
applications
(1870-1939)
Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:00
Henrik Kragh Sørensen (Arhus Universitet):
Scandinavian mathematics between modernity and applications: Applied
mathematics at mathematical congresses, 1900-1925
16:00 - 17:00
Laurent Mazliak (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris):
Back on Borel's new interest for probability: Some comments on
a paper by Volterra, 1906
Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:30
Moritz Epple (Goethe Universtät, Frankfurt):
Autonomy vs heteronomy: Felix Hausdorff's unpublished fragment
"Der Formalismus" and the role of applied mathematics
9:00 - 10:00
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (University of Agder, Kristiansand):
Richard von Mises’ two programmatic papers of
1921 "Über die Aufgaben und Ziele der angewandten
Mathematik" and "Über die gegenwärtige
Krise der Mechanik"
10:00 - 11:00
David Aubin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris):
Public discourses
about mathematics in France during and after World War I
Coffee Break
11.30 - 12:30
Hélène Gispert (Université Paris-Sud
11, Orsay):
Mathematics an modernity in the French Third republic: Emile Borel's
speeches and papers in the public sphere
Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:00
June Barrow-Green (The Open University, Milton Keynes):
tba
16:00 - 17:00
Birgit Bergmann (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt):
Courant and the "inner necessity" of mathematics
Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:30
Erhard Scholz (Bergische Universität, Wuppertal):
Hermann Weyl on
"Similarity and congruence: A chapter in the epistemology of science",
an unpublished talk of 1948
9:00 - 10:00
Norbert Schappacher (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg):
What does
'modern' mean in probability theory and in applied mathematical
statistics?
10:00 - 11:00
Andrea Albrecht (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg ):
Essences of
mathematics: Literary reflections on a discipline
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (Roskilde Universitet):
Can 'modernism' be
useful for understanding the migration of mathematics?
Rashevsky’s cell division and von Neumann’s general
economic equilibrium