Paris Summer School: History of mathematical sciences and digital approaches: the materiality of texts — networks — classifications

Paris from 2 to 6 July 2018, at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche (UMR 7586 of the CNRS, UPMC, Université Paris-Diderot), on the Jussieu campus, in the heart of the Latin Quarter of Paris.

This international summer school aims at:

• giving a comprehensive presentation of — and opening discussions on — current opportunities offered by digital technologies: access to original documents, modes of (collaborative) edition, new opportunities to handle and search corpuses;
• evaluating the impact of digital approaches on the methodology and research practices in the history of science;
• raising questions on their advantages and limits concerning their actual capacity to deliver new results and open new research perspectives.

In addition to classes and lectures, workshops will be organized to enable participants to test approaches and tools on their own corpus and research data.

The speakers will include specialists in the digital humanities as well as historians of mathematics who use digital tools.

Housing and lunches will be free, offered by the summer school.

Registration is free of charge but mandatory.

To participate in the summer school, please Register Here

Should you need any further information, please contact Summer School 2018.

Website: Summer School 2018

“What do historians of mathematics do?” - Oxford Mathematical Institute, History of Mathematics Seminar

A series of talks whose aim is simply to answer the question in the title. The talks will take place at 4pm on Tuesdays of weeks 2-4 in the Andrew Wiles Building (Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road, Oxford) in lecture room L3. No previous knowledge is required. All are welcome.

Week 2 - 1 May 2018
“The World Is Round. Or, Is It, Really?” A Global History of Mathematics in the 17th Century Tomoko L. Kitagawa (UC Berkeley & Oxford Centre for Global History)

Week 3 – 8 May
“Perseverance and intelligence, but no genius”: Mary Somerville's theory of differences Brigitte Stenhouse (The Open University)

Week 4 – 15 May
Euclid's Elements of Geometry in Early Modern Britain Yelda Nasifoglu (History Faculty)


Further details, including abstracts can be found here.