Euclid and His Heritage
A Clay Mathematics Institute Conference at Oxford
St. Catherine's College
Oxford University
October 7-8, 2005
Conference Schedule
All lectures are 40 minutes in duration, followed by a 10 minute question and answer period.
| Friday, October 7 | ||
| 9:00 | Jim Carlson (CMI), Nigel Hitchin (Oxford University) | Opening Remarks |
| 9:10 | Alexander Jones (University of Toronto) | From Euclid to Arethas |
| 10:00 | Jeremy Gray (Open University) | Rethinking the elements – two thousand years of reflections on the foundations of geometry |
| 10:50 | Tea | |
| 11:20 | Nigel Wilson (Oxford University) | The Elements: the transmission of the Greek text |
| 12:10 | Mark Schiefsky (Harvard University) | New technologies for the study of Euclid's Elements |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 | Robin Hartshorne (UC Berkeley) | The mathematical legacy of Euclid's Elements |
| 15:20 | Tony Lévy (CNRS) | Euclid's Elements in Hebrew |
| 16:10 | Bill Casselman (University of British Columbia) | Interpreting Euclid - early and late |
| Saturday, October 8 | ||
| 9:00 | Richard Ovenden (Bodleian Library), Chet Grycz (Octavo) | Opening remarks |
| 9:10 | Ian Mueller (University of Chicago) | Who started the Euclid myth? |
| 10:00 | Sonja Brentjes (Aga Khan University) | Euclid's Elements in the Islamic World |
| 10:50 | Tea | |
| 11:20 | Eleanor Robson (Cambridge University) | Clay mathematics: Euclid's Babylonian counterparts |
| 12:10 | Bernard Vitrac (CNRS, Paris) | The Heiberg Edition of Euclid's Elements: an incorrect text or a false history of the text? |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 | Catherine Jami (CNRS, Paris) | Euclid in Chinese... and Manchu |
| 15:20 | Christopher Zeeman (Warwick Mathematics Institute) | The achievements and limitations of the theory of proportion in Euclid's Elements Book V |
| 16:10 | Panel Discussion | |
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