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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