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Accueil > Archives > Journées et colloques : septembre 2008–juillet 2012 > Journées et colloques 2009-2010 > Presentation Meeting In honour of Henk Bos’s 70th birthday

Contexts, emergence and issues of Cartesian geometry

Presentation Meeting In honour of Henk Bos’s 70th birthday

Special Issue of Historia Mathematica, Vol. 37, Number 3 (2010)

Program

09h30-10h June Barrow-Green (The Open University, Co-Editor in Chief of Historia Mathematica), Jan Hogendijk (University of Utrecht) and Sebastien Maronne (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona & SPHERE, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot, Guest Editor of the special
issue), Introduction


History and Philosophy

10h00-10h30 Mic Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame & ANR Chaire d’excellence Ideals of Proof"), Philosophical challenges from the history of mathematics

10h30-10h50 Ken Manders (Pittsburgh University), On Descartes’ early algebra

10h50-11h20 Discussion

11h20-11h30 Pause


Issues : circulation and contrasting approaches

11h30-11h50 Erik-Jan Bos (University of Utrecht), Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia and Descartes’ Letters (1650-1665)

11h50-12h10 Dominique Descotes (CERHAC-CIBP, Université Clermont-Ferrand II), An unknown theorem by Blaise Pascal

12h10-12h30 Massimo Galuzzi (Università di Milano), Newton’s attempt to construct an unitary view of mathematics

12h30-13h00 Discussion

13h00-14h00 Buffet Lunch

Emergence

14h00-14h20 David Rabouin (SPHERE, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot), What Descartes knew of mathematics in 1628

14h20-14h40 Andrew Arana (Kansas State University & ANR Chaire d’excellence Ideals of Proof"), Descartes and the cylindrical helix

14h40-15h10 Discussion

15h10-15h20 Pause


Contexts

15h20-15h40 Jan Hogendijk (University of Utrecht),The scholar and the fencing master : the exchanges between Joseph Justus Scaliger and Ludolph van Ceulen on the circle quadrature (1594-1596)

15h40-16h00 Liesbeth de Wreede (University of Utrecht), A dialogue on the use of arithmetic in geometry : Van Ceulen’s and Snellius’s Fundamenta Arithmetica et Geometrica

16h00-16h20 Marco Panza (IHPST, CNRS-Université Paris 1), Rethinking Geometrical Exactness

16h20-16h50 Discussion

16h50-17h00 Conclusion

Voir en ligne : Historia Mathematica