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History of Mathematics "Oberseminar" - Summer semester 2024
2024_Oberseminar .pdfUpcoming workshop at the BUW
Poster Tagung März.pdf
A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Early Modern Period
In the new Bloomsbury series A Cultural History of Mathematics in six volumes, Volker Remmert has co-edited the third one (Early Modern Period), in which Thomas Morel has authored a chapter "Mathematics and Technological Change: The Silent Rise of Practical Mathematics".
23/02/2024
The Richness of the History of Mathematics:
A Tribute to Jeremy Gray
A Tribute to Jeremy Gray
Nicolas Michel has contributed to this collective volume a chapter entitled "The Geometer’s Gaze: On H. G. Zeuthen’s Holistic Epistemology of Mathematics".
06/01/2024
Oberseminar History of Mathematics, Winter semester
Below is the program of our seminar for the upcoming semester.
13/10/2023
WS_2324_Oberseminar Geschichte der Mathematik_Stand_19_10_23.pdfThe History of the Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. Preliminary study for a research project
Dr. des. Jason Lemberg
The project lays the foundations for the exploration of the History of the Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM, gegründet 1922, https://www.gamm-ev.de/) and its Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (ZAMM). The period under consideration extends from the founding in the early 1920s to the Cold War Era. After the First World War the practical benefits of Applied Science were obvious. The institutionalization of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, however, was accompanied by scientific and political conflicts: Especially the demarcation from Mathematics turned out to be difficult. Questions concerning the history of its origin, its special transdisciplinary character, and the political and scientific relations in East and West during the Cold War are the focus of interest. The project is accompanied by a planning group, which includes Prof. Dr. Volker Remmert (Wuppertal), the chairman of GAMM, Prof. Dr. Karsten Urban (Ulm) and Prof. Dr. Moritz Epple (Frankfurt am Main, History of Science).
22/09/2023
Prof. Dr. Volker Remmert und Dr. Julia Ellinghaus / Foto: UniService Transfer
Cooperation: The mysterious imagery of scientific instruments
A press release on the DFG-funded project "Iconography on Scientific Instruments of the Early Modern Period", is now available on the website of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
01/09/2023
Why Should you Trust Geometry? The Mathematics of Mining in Early Modern Germany
A blog post by Thomas Morel on the History of Knowledge Blog of the German Historical Institute.
25/08/2023
Recent publications by members of the group
Volker Remmert: „Retter“ von Oberwolfach (1945): Szolem Mandelbrojt und John Todd, in: Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach 75 Jahre. Festschrift zum Jubiläum, Oberwolfach 2022, 66-74. Available here.
Volker Remmert and Julia Ellinghaus contributed a chapter on early-modern scientific instruments to an edited volume on epistemic images, available here.
Maria Reminyi recently published an article on the Heinrich Wieleitner's historiography of mathematics and Weimar Culture in NTM Zeitschrift, available freely here.
Thomas Morel's monograph on practical mathematics and subterranean geometry (see image) was recently published by Cambridge University Press.
10/03/2023
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