Non-Western Mathematics

Date: 27 June 2014

Location: University of Oxford

Morning: History of Mathematics Seminar

11.00: Kim Plofker (Brown University, USA)
Mathematical and observational methods in medieval Indian astronomy

11.40: Joseph Dauben (City University, New York, USA)
Ancient Chinese mathematics: the Nine Chapters on the Art of Mathematics — an appraisal of the text, its editions, and its translations

12.20: Glen Van Brummelen (Quest University, Canada)
Where Zijes went: the travels of astronomical tables in medieval Islam

Afternoon: General Lectures

14.00: Kim Plofker (Brown University, USA)
India at the mathematical crossroads: the pre-modern world’s mathematical sciences and their Indian influences

15.00: Joseph Dauben (City University, New York, USA)
The evolution of mathematics in Ancient China: from newly discovered bamboo texts to the ‘Nine Chapters’

16.00: Tea

16.30: Glen Van Brummelen (Quest University, Canada):
Our forgotten forbears: the mathematical sciences in medieval Islam

17.30: Reception (open to all)

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