Participants 2007

Robin Adams (London)

Carolin Antos (Wien)

Birgit Bergmann (Frankfurt)
“Incidentally the name is not our main problem”, The Foundation of the Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics 1922/23
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Frauke Böttcher (Köln)
Mathematics, a Self-Taught Discipline in the 18th Century
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Matthias Brandl (Augsburg)
The vibrating string – an initial problem for modern mathematics; historical and didactical aspects
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Andreas Christiansen (Stord/Haugesund)
A Hermeneutic Approach to Analyzing Historical Textbooks in Mathematics
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Leo Corry (Tel Aviv) - Invited speaker
Number Crunching vs. Number Theory from Kummer to Sloane: Some Reflections on the History of a Mathematical Discipline
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Jeanine Daems (Leiden)

Elizabeth De Mol (Gent)
Doing Mathematics on the ENIAC. Von Neumann’s and Lehmer’s different visions
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Liesbeth de Wreede (Leiden)

Jantien Dopper (Utrecht)

Helena Durnova (Brno)

Thomas Gawlick (Hannover)

Franziska Gilbert (Berlin)

Roxana Grigoras (Bremen)
A comparison of techniques for learning and using mathematics and a study of their relationship to logical principles
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Harald Gropp (Heidelberg)
The development of configurations from Reye to Hilbert
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Uffe Thomas Jankvist (Roskilde)
Empirical research on using history in mathematics education - evaluating a teaching module
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Rainer Kaenders (Köln)

Gergely Kőhegyi (Budapest)
Axiomatic Theory of Socionatural Systems
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Henrik Kragh Sørensen (Aarhus)
Meeting under the integral sign: Politics and mathematics at the 1936 ICM in Oslo
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Nikola Leufer (Dortmund)

Steffen Lünne (Hannover)

Michael Meyer (Dortmund)

Derek Postnikoff (Saskatchewan)
Mathematical Metaphor: Linguistic or Conceptual?
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Zornitza Rasheva (Twente)

Wijnand Rekers (Amsterdam)
Mechanical Engineering in The Netherlands in the 19th century
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Bjoern Schirmeier (Frankfurt)
Mathematics and Culture – Some views of Weimar Republic mathematicians on their own discipline
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Jan Schmidt (Köln)

Birgit Siebe (Augsburg)

Emil Simeonov (Wien)
Mathematics and the Professionalisation of Thinking
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Susanne Spies (Siegen)
On the aesthetics of mathematics
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Tim Storer (Cambridge)
Gödel’s negative translation: Why intuitionism is no alternative
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Laura Turner (Aarhus)
The Influence of Gösta Mittag-Leffler and his Journal Acta Mathematica on Mathematical Research, 1882 – 1914
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Bart Van Kerkhove (Brussels)
Empirical Roots of Knot Theory
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Norbert Verdier (Paris)
Wer ist der Mathematiker und Historiker Franz Wöpcke (1826-1864)? Was schreibt er? Und wo?
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Oswaldo Vernet (Rio de Janeiro)

Roy Wagner (Boston)
A case study for the semiotic analysis of variables
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Steven Wepster (Utrecht)

Gabriele Wickel (Siegen)

Eva Wilhelmus (Bonn)
Mathematical knowledge and 'degrees of proofness'
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Ingo Witzke (Köln)
Leibniz reconsidered: The radius of curvature
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Birte Wolmeyer (Berlin)