Math History Seminar

This was once the website of Math History Seminar, back in 2024. It met on Mondays at 2:30 in LWSN B134. Here was the list of speakers.

The new website of Math History Seminar can be found here.

Date Speaker Title and Abstract
9/9 Eric Pabon Cancel Testimonios: Stories of Latino and Hispanics in Mathematics
9/16 Geoffrey Baring Hippias to be Square: A Quadratrix and its Implications
9/23 No Speaker
9/30 No Speaker
10/07 Fall break
10/14 General Ozochiawaeze The Life, Mathematics, and Political Advocacy of Sophia Kovalevskaya
10/21 No Speaker
10/28 No Speaker
11/04 Stanley Gao Pre-History of Probability Theory
11/11 No Speaker
11/18 Amir Alexander The Experimental Geometer: How John Wallis Saved Mathematics for the Royal Society