ICM'98

Workshop "Berlin as a Centre of Mathematical Activity"

The workshop "Berlin as a Centre of Mathematical Activity", suggested by the International Commission on the History of Mathematics (ICHM) and organized on its behalf by G. Israel (Rome) and E. Knobloch (Berlin) will take place in the afternoon of Saturday, August 22.

Here is the program of this workshop:

Berlin as a Centre of Mathematical Activity
Organized by G. Israel and E. Knobloch
Saturday, 22 August 1998

Program

14:00 - 14:15
G. Israel, University of Rome:
Introduction
14:15 - 14:45
David Rowe, University of Mainz:
The Berlin-Goettingen Rivalry, 1870-1920
14:45 - 15:00
Discussion
15:00 - 15:30
Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Middlesex Polytechnic, England:
Weierstrassian analysis and Cantorian set theory in Britain and the USA, 1890-1910
15:30 - 15:45
Discussion
Coffee break
16:15 - 16:45
U. Bottazzini, Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare 'B. Segre' Accademia dei Lincei, Rome:
Weierstrass's school of analysis and its influence on Italian mathematics
16:45 - 16:50
Discussion
16:50 - 17:20
S. Demidov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow:
Russian mathematicians in Berlin in the 2nd half of the XIXth and at the beginning of the XXth centuries
17:20 - 17:25
Discussion
17:25 - 17:55
A. Dahan, CNRS Paris:
Images croisees des centres mathematiques de Paris et de Berlin, dans les annees 1860/80
17:55 - 18:00
Discussion


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