International Workshop 

Between Modernism and Application – Comparative Studies in the History of Early 20th Century Mathematics

Rauischholzhausen, October 12th - 15th, 2009


For viewing abstracts of the talks, click on the titles of talks below.

A reader for the workshop is available here: Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3

... and here are some photographs of the castle & park taken during the workshop.


Programme


Tuesday, 13 October 2009

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Autonomy vs heteronomy: Felix Hausdorff's unpublished fragment "Der Formalismus" and the role of applied mathematics


Wednesday, 14 October 2009

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Hermann Weyl on "Similarity and congruence: A chapter in the epistemology of science", an unpublished talk of 1948


Thursday, 15 October 2009

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


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