The conference will be dedicated to tracing the history of social, professional, and academic networks, which in some way influenced the creation of new mathematical concepts or disciplines.

East London, where the conference will be held, was the fermenting ground where one of the first mathematical societies was founded, the Spitalfields Mathematical Society (1717). The history of the area has inspired, in many ways, the contributions to the conference, and we hope that both mathematicians and the historians of mathematics will find this a fascinating opportunity to explore the ways in which mathematics developed from its applications and in which applications inspired the creation of new mathematical techniques.

PROGRAMME

09:30 Registration

10:00 Opening - Snezana Lawrence (Bath Spa University): Applied mathematics and mathematics practitioners: Spitalfields – the home of the first mathematical society

10:15 Victor J. Katz (University of the District of Columbia): Quadratic and Cubic Equations: Can We Really Apply Them?

11:00 Break

11:15 Norman Biggs (London School of Economics and Political Science): Mathematics in the Textile trade

12:00 Professor Ioan M James (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford): Some Early Jewish Mathematicians

12:45 Lunch

13:45 Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford): "Two Viols were Mathematically set out…

14:30 Martin Campbell-Kelly (University of Warwick): The rise and decline of mathematical table making

15:15 Jan van Maanen (Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education): Applications convince. The case of the early calculus

16:30 Plenary discussion and coffee

REGISTRATION
Open at http://online.ima.org.uk/ or by emailing conferences@ima.org.uk

Non IMA Member:	£85.00
IMA Member:	£70.00
Student:	£60.00

TRAVEL NOTES
Delegate Notes [pdf]

Location Map [pdf]

For all enquiries, contact the organisers:
Snezana Lawrence (snezana@mathsisgoodforyou.com)
Amy Marsh (conferences@ima.org.uk)